ECONOMY AND EXTRAVAGANCE IN CRAFT CULTURE: THE DEPLOYMENT OF A GRAND BUILDING CODE IN CHINESE CONSTRUCTION HISTORY

Economy and extravagance in craft culture: the deployment of a grand building code in Chinese construction history

The grand building code called Yingzao fashi, drafted in the twelfth-century Song dynasty, was used as a technical reference guide and assisted previous researchers in analyses of premodern Chinese building structures and construction, yet how the building code entangled with contemporary society, coetaneous challenges and the changing courses of p

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Morphological Characteristics and Sustainable Adaptive Reuse Strategies of Regional Cultural Architecture: A Case Study of Fenghuang Ancient Town, Xiangxi, China

This study explores the application of sustainable adaptive reuse strategies in preserving historical and cultural buildings, with the goal of establishing a scientifically robust framework of indicators for systematic evaluation and practical application.Focusing on the diaojiaolou (stilted buildings) along the Tuojiang River in the ancient town o

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The influence of hay cutting number and periods on productive longevity in lotus-timothy sowings on sod-podzolic highly acid soil

The research was conducted in 2011-2015 in Kirov region.Three-time cutting use of trefoil-timothy mix while harvesting at branching, bud formation and flowering stages of trefoil development had been planned.Possibility of durable (up to 5 years) growing of this grass mixture has been established.The productivity of lotus-timothy grass mixture depe

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