The craft of gardens / Ji Cheng ; translated by Alison Hardie ; photographs by Zhong Ming ; with a foreword by Maggie Keswick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ji, Cheng, 1582-

Contributor:

Hardie, Alison.

Zhong, Ming, 1949-

Keswick, Maggie.

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

China.

Gardens--China.

Gardens.

Physical Description:

144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Better Link Press, ©2012.

Summary:

Presents the principles of garden design and aspects of Chinese life and culture during the late Ming dynasty of the seventeenth century, with original diagrams and photographs of current existing gardens.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Craft of Gardens

Theory of Construction

On Gardens

I. Situation

1. Sites among Mountain Forests

2. Urban Sites

3. Village Sites

4. Sites in Uninhabited Countryside

5. Sites beside a Mansion House

6. River and Lakeside Sites

II. Layout

1. Great Hall

2. Towers

3. Gate Towers

4. Studies

5. Pavilions

6. Covered Walkways

7. Artificial Mountains

III. Buildings

1. Gate Towers

2. Halls

3. Chapels

4. Living-rooms

5. Chambers

6. Lodgings

7. Towers

8. Terraces

9. Belvederes

10. Pavilions

11. Gazebos

12. Galleries

13. Vaulting

14. Penthouses

15. Covered Walkways

16. Five-pillared Structures

17. Seven-pillared Structures

18. Nine-pillared Structures

19. "Rough-frame" Superstructure

20. Main Rafter

21. Moulded Roof Corners

22. Ground Plans

IV. Non-structural features

1. Screen Doors

2. "Dust Supports"

3. Windows

4. Shutters

5. Balustrades

V. Structural features

1. Doorways

2. Walls

3. Paving

VI. Scenic features

1. Raising Mountains

2. Selection of Rocks

3. Making Use of Natural Scenery.

Notes:

Subtitle on cover: The classic Chinese text on garden design.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781602200081

1602200084

OCLC:

745979527

Publisher Number:

90100068920