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IMAGE: Heralded as China's oldest woven-arch timber bridge, the Rulong ( "like a dragon ") Bridge was constructed during the Ming dynasty in 1625 and renovated between 1821 and 1859 during the Qing...
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Credit: Ronald G. Knapp, 2019.
The School of Architecture at Oxford Brookes Univ
ersity has started a £5 million grant-giving programme, to improve the documentation of endangered wooden architecture throughout the world and make records freely available online.
The Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme (EWAP) has been made possible through a grant from Arcadia - a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, and will be delivered in collaboration with CyARK, a non-profit organisation that digitises and shares significant cultural heritage.