Chinese Famous Architects

Famous Architects in Chinese!

Outhouses by Famous Architects
Chinese cover

Phone Booths by Famous Architects
Chinese cover

Mobile Homes by Famous Architects
Chinese cover

The Chinese versions of the ...by Famous Architects books officially hit the streets over the summer.  For those of you out of the loop, a Chinese University was so impressed with the artwork, content, and popularity of this book series that they decided to reprint them in Mandarin to meet the high demand from their country.  Overall, the format of the books is relatively the same, except for new covers and some new filler pages that use pieces of the artwork from the original books in a new way and that they are written in Chinese! The new filler pages are entertaining in their own right.

Personally, I'm not sure about how well the humor (or should I say attempts at humor) make it through the translation. In fact, I was so interested in what this would be like that I searched the web to see what I could find. Here is some of what I found - keep in mind this is a translation of a translation (English to Chinese, then back to Engrish):

• from: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5031f5f70100p5tk.html
• Bring the house to go Rangers! West mobile home read past lives, all over Europe to see the classic architecture to life.This fun picture book for mobile homes rare in the country.
• Introduction:
  This is a book about "housing will go," A Short History of the building. Mobile home (Mobile Homes) in modern society, also known as "car", "trailer", but in fact, both ancient Egypt movable driven by human pyramids, ancient Greece, Park City, with horse-drawn, or modern by engine-driven car, the protagonist of the book we are. This is a professional architect, cartoonist 史蒂夫谢克尔 "master pieces of architecture" series of picture book three in one.
  Author:
   史蒂夫谢克尔 born in 1967, Columbus, Indiana, USA, has a dual career as an architect and cartoonist. Shekel like a fun easy way to spread to the public construction of knowledge, through his unique perspective on the master design techniques, and to study how the masters of these techniques applied to mobile homes, phone booths, and outdoor toilets on these architectural sketches of.
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  Now hopefully it's not just me that thinks something might be lost in the translation. But I don't really mind, I likely will not meet many of the Chinese people who may have read these books and were disappointed because they didn't make sense to them.
  
  
  
  This is Steve Shekel signing out