ANNOUNCING A NEW SERIES

Spatial Habitus

Making and Meaning 

in 

Asia’s Architecture

(Click Above for Chinese Language Announcement)

Series Editors Ronald G. Knapp and Xing Ruan 

The University of Hawai’i Press is pleased to announce a new series, Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia’s Architecture. The intent of the series is to explore the socio-cultural, historical, and environmental factors that influence the structure and meaning of Asia's architecture—buildings, settlements, cities, and landscapes—for more than half the world's population. “Making and Meaning” emphasizes the interactive yet legible as well as complex relationships between human beings and their built world. Drawing upon the research of established as well as younger scholars, the series will focus on how cultural, material, spiritual, and social factors shape built forms and how meanings are transmitted through architecture and will 

• document architect and planner designed built environments, as well as living vernacular architectural traditions in Asia;
• approach architecture from interdisciplinary perspectives;
• examine society’s influence on architecture as well as the impact of architecture on society;
• examine relationships among symbolization, power, place, and space in the built world;
• articulate the relationships among the built world, society, and its inhabitants;
• consider technology, economy, politics, rituals, settings, and the meaningful negotiation among them;
• highlight historic preservation and heritage issues regarding the built environment

Interdisciplinary in scope and border-crossing in extent, Spatial Habitus will present original syntheses, introduce new areas for investigation, as well as offer reinterpretations of earlier scholarship. Each series title will be a source for understanding both present and past built forms. Encompassing research throughout Asia, the series will creatively explore and construct new scholarship that crosses traditional disciplinary and national boundaries and provide lessons and serve as inspiration for architects, planners, and citizens as they construct future environments.

It is intended that each volume be published in English- and Chinese-language editions through the collaboration of the University of Hawai`i Press and a leading academic publisher in China
 

The first book in the series is House Home Family: Living & Being Chinese co-edited by Ronald G. Knapp and Kai-Yin Lo University of Hawai'i Press and China Institute 2005

The second book in the series is Allegorical Architecture: Living Myth And Architectonics In Southern China by Xing Ruan University of Hawai'i Press 2006

Richly illustrated with photographs, line drawings and maps, each volume in Spatial Habitus: Making & Meaning in Asia’s Architecture will be supported by a glossary of terms and a comprehensive bibliography. A distinguished international and interdisciplinary editorial advisory board assists the editors.

Series Editors:

Ronald G. KNAPP, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Geography at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on the cultural and historical geography of China, including most recently  Chinese Houses: The Architectural Heritage of a Nation with photographs by A. Chester Ong (Tuttle Publishing, 2005), Asia’s Old Dwellings: Tradition, Resilience, and Change (editor and contributor, Oxford University Press, 2003), China’s Old Dwellings (University of Hawai’i Press, 2000), China’s Walled Cities (Oxford University Press, 2000), and China’s Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation (University of Hawai’i Press, 1999) His new book China's Historic Bridges: Architecture over Water with photographs by A. Chester Ong will be published in late 2007 by Tuttle Publishing.http://www.newpaltz.edu/~knappr/

Xing RUAN, is Professor of Architecture, and Chair of Architecture Discipline Group at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He is the author of New China Architecture (Periplus/Tuttle, 2006), and Allegorical Architecture: Living Myth and Architecture in Southern China (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006); his forthcoming edited book (with Paul Hogben) is Topophilia and Topophobia: Reflections on Human Habitat in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2007). Xing Ruan has published on architecture and anthropology, architectural education, China’s modern and contemporary architecture, as well as Australian contemporary architecture in both scholarly and professional journals. Born in China, he received his architecture education at the Southeast University in Nanjing.

Editorial Advisory Board: 

Nezar  ALSAYYAD, University of California, Berkeley, USA
http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/ced_people/faculty/details.cfm?EmpID=128

CHEN Zhihua, Tsinghua University, China

Puay-peng HO, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China
http://www.arch.cuhk.edu.hk/staff/teaching/hopp.html

HSU Min-fu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
http://www.arch.ncku.edu.tw/eng/faculty/EV/Ev-hsu.htm

KATAYAMA Kazutoshi, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music, Japan

LEE Sang Hae, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

William LOGAN, Deakin University,Australia
http://arts.deakin.edu.au/Arts_SAIS/Members/

LU Yuanding, South China University of Technology, China

David P.Y. LUNG, University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China
http://arch.hku.hk/~lung/

Paul OLIVER, Oxford Brookes University, UK
http://www2.arnes.si/aa/people/oliver.html

Amos RAPOPORT, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA 
http://www.uwm.edu/SARUP/faculty/rapoport.htm

Joseph RYKWERT, University of Pennsylvania, USA
http://www.cperspectives.org/Invitees/joseph_rykwert.htm

Nancy Shatzman STEINHARDT, University of Pennsylvania, USA
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/bios_steinhardt.html

Yi-fu TUAN, University of Wisconsin—Madison, USA

Roxana WATERSON, National University of Singapore, Singapore
http://www.arch.nus.edu.sg/SOA/courses/cpd_courses/cpd4/rw.html

December 10, 2006