Although ceramic building materials had been known in East Asia from about 3000, it was only from the late 3rd century BCE onwards that Chinese builders began using fired bricks for building walls and ceilings. Mass-produced fired bricks were introduced during the construction of the tomb of the First Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi, and craftsmen discovered the technologies necessary to erect bonded walls, barrel vaults and domes over the following centuries. This text traces the emergence and development of brick architecture in China between the 3rd century BCE and the 2nd century CE, and places the development in the wider Asian context. It suggests that even if bricks and brick building technologies had been known in other parts of Eurasia ea...
Masonry city walls were common defense facilities in the cities of the Eurasian before the industria...
Masonry city walls were common defense facilities in the cities of the Eurasian before the industria...
Textes rassemblés et présentés par Valérie NègreNational audienceIn this paper, we present a new tra...
Fired bricks are a hard and durable masonry material that has played a major role in the emergence o...
Focusing on fire brick, an industry-based approach is adopted to address the development of refracto...
Modern Shanghai was built mostly of bricks, embedded in an epoch-making shift from “blue brick” to “...
China’s move towards western models of construction is documented by an account of the inconspicuous...
National audienceTamped earth in public buildings of the two last Chinese dynasties (14e-20e centuri...
Fired bricks have been used for construction purposes in China for at least two thousand years. Sinc...
Materiality has been one of the most frequent topics of discussion for generations of architecture ...
Ancient mud-brick architecture along the Silk Road has been an under-studied subject in the world li...
Chinese ceramic technology moved from craftsmanship to an industry-based science “Ceramics Engineeri...
The city wall is a military defense building of an ancient city and a unique landscape architecture ...
Abstract Technology has always been there to create masonry work since prehistoric times. Ancient ma...
The ancient white bricks in the Yichun region occupy a special place in Chinese cultural heritage. I...
Masonry city walls were common defense facilities in the cities of the Eurasian before the industria...
Masonry city walls were common defense facilities in the cities of the Eurasian before the industria...
Textes rassemblés et présentés par Valérie NègreNational audienceIn this paper, we present a new tra...
Fired bricks are a hard and durable masonry material that has played a major role in the emergence o...
Focusing on fire brick, an industry-based approach is adopted to address the development of refracto...
Modern Shanghai was built mostly of bricks, embedded in an epoch-making shift from “blue brick” to “...
China’s move towards western models of construction is documented by an account of the inconspicuous...
National audienceTamped earth in public buildings of the two last Chinese dynasties (14e-20e centuri...
Fired bricks have been used for construction purposes in China for at least two thousand years. Sinc...
Materiality has been one of the most frequent topics of discussion for generations of architecture ...
Ancient mud-brick architecture along the Silk Road has been an under-studied subject in the world li...
Chinese ceramic technology moved from craftsmanship to an industry-based science “Ceramics Engineeri...
The city wall is a military defense building of an ancient city and a unique landscape architecture ...
Abstract Technology has always been there to create masonry work since prehistoric times. Ancient ma...
The ancient white bricks in the Yichun region occupy a special place in Chinese cultural heritage. I...
Masonry city walls were common defense facilities in the cities of the Eurasian before the industria...
Masonry city walls were common defense facilities in the cities of the Eurasian before the industria...
Textes rassemblés et présentés par Valérie NègreNational audienceIn this paper, we present a new tra...