Books about Traditional Chinese Architecture

Chinese architecture is an architectural style that developed over millennia in China, before spreading out to influence architecture throughout East Asia. Chinese architecture traditionally classifies structures according to type, ranging from pagodas to palaces. (Excerpted from Wikipedia)

Recommended Books

A Grammar of Chinese Lattice, Volume 1 of 2

The Art and Architecture of China: 3rd edition

China's Traditional Rural Architecture: A Cultural Geography of the Common House

Huizhou shi diao yi shu: Stone engravings in Huizhou District (Mandarin Chinese Edition)

China's Vernacular Architecture: House Form and Culture

Carpentry and Building in Late Imperial China: A Study of the Fifteenth-Century Carpenter's Manual Lu Ban Jing (Sinica Leidensia)

China's Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation

China's Old Dwellings

Living Heritage: Vernacular Environment in China

Classical Chinese Doors and Windows Hardcover – by Ma Weidu

Yin Yu Tang: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House

Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture

Chinese Houses: The Architectural Heritage of a Nation

Chinese Houses: A Pictorial Tour of China’s Traditional Dwellings

Beijing's Imperial Palace: The Illustrated Guide to the Architecture, History, and Splendor of the Forbidden City

The Emperor's Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City

Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia: The Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers

Chinese architecture 3rd edition | Architecture | Cambridge University Press

Chinese Vernacular Dwellings

Huizhou Vernacular Architecture Exhibition (Chinese Edition)

Colours and Contrast: Ceramic Traditions in Chinese Architecture

Vernacular Architecture: Domestic Spaces of Ancient China (Library of Ancient Chinese Architecture)

Shanghai's Art Deco Master: Paul Veysseyre’s Architecture in the French Concession

The Old Bridges in Ningbo

Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays

Chinese Architecture: A History

What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming

China's Covered Bridges: Architecture Over Water

Furnishing the Gracious Chinese Home (Chinese and English Edition)