International clients have emulated American buildings such as skyscrapers, have followed patterns of American urbanism such as suburban residences and have adopted American concepts of form and space for leisure activities. This study examines how North American architecture had been transplanted elsewhere during the 20th century. It explains how, why and where Amnerican architects, contractors, developers, planners or building materials exporters have marketed American architecture overseas.
International clients have emulated American buildings such as skyscrapers, have followed patterns of American urbanism such as suburban residences an...
In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts converged in the United States when Chinese students were given scholarships to train as architects at American universities whose design curricula were dominated by Beaux-Arts methods. Upon their return home in the 1920s and 1930s, these graduates began to practice architecture and create China's first architectural schools, often transferring a version of what they had learned in the U.S. to Chinese situations. The resulting complex series of design-related...
In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts converged in the United...
