Global architecture for eighteenth-century Beijing - 9781800856189

Global architecture for eighteenth-century BeijingBuilding Qing Enlightenments\nAuthor(s): Pedro Luengo\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Voltaire Foundation\nISBN-13: 9781800856189, 978-1800856189\nSynopsis\nThis book reinterprets architecture in Beijing during the reigns of the Kangxi [tel], Yongzheng [tel] and Qianlong [tel] emperors in the eighteenth century. More specifically, it views the building processes of the four churches and the Western palaces in the Yunmng Yun garden as an example of cultural dialogue in the context of the Enlightenment. The study is based firstly on archival sources from different institutions from around the globe, using Big Data to manage them. Secondly, it places increased emphasis on architectural remains, preserved both in international collections as well as at archaeological sites. To take advantage of these remains, some were recorded using close-range photogrammetry. Digital sunlight analyses .