Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts
Cody, Jeffrey W / Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman / Atkin, Tony![Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/111/11144559/CHSBZCOP0311144559.jpg)
In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the École 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 scho...