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About the speaker:
Ken Diener joined the Classical Chinese Garden Society in 1990 and was a docent volunteer, contributing over 2,500 hours in Lan Su from when it opened in 2000 until he left Portland in January of 2018. Ken has presented two First Saturday lectures on Lan Su's architecture. In 2008, “A Mountain Out Your Doorway” and 2011, “Stepping into the Clouds, the Poetics of Chinese Architecture”. After a year of traveling throughout the U.S., he and his wife have moved to McMinnville, OR. Ken studied architecture at NCSU, MIT and Vienna’s Technical Institute, later teaching architecture and working for architects throughout the US and abroad. He has run his own firm, KJD Architecture pc www.kjdarch.com for 26 years. |
Maxwell K. Hearn
How to Read Chinese Paintings (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008) ISBN-10 : 0300141874 ISBN-13 : 978-0300141870 |
Liang Ssu-ch'eng
Chinese Architecture: A Pictorial History (Dover Architecture, Dover Publications, 2005) ISBN-10 : 0486439992 ISBN-13 : 978-0486439990 |
Beverly Jackson and David Hugus
Ladder to the Clouds: Intrigue and Tradition in Chinese Rank (Ten Speed Press, 2000) ISBN-10 : 1580081274 ISBN-13 : 978-1580081276 |
Alfreda Murck
Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 2002) ISBN : 9780674007826 |
Lin Feng
Canal Towns South of the Yangtze (Shanghai Jiaotong University Press, 2009) ISBN : 9787313058188 |
Maggie Keswick, Charles Jencks, Alison Hardie
The Chinese Garden: History, Art and Architecture (Harvard University Press, 2003) ISBN-10 : 0674010868 ISBN-13 : 978-0674010864 |
Stanley Appelbaum
Treasury of Chinese Designs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Publications 2006) ISBN-10: 0486997448 ISBN-13: 9780486997445 |
Dieter Kuhn
The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China (Harvard University Press, 2009) ISBN : 9780674031463 |
Charles Q. Wu
Listen to the Fragrance: Literary Inscriptions in Lan Su Chinese Garden (Lan Su Chinese Garden, 2016) ISBN-10 : 0998077704 ISBN-13 : 978-0998077703 |
Craig Clunas
Fruitful Sites Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China (Duke University Press 1996) Paper ISBN: 978-0-8223-1795-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-1800-2 |