王其钧，Born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, in 1954, Wang Qijunbegan
his professional studies at the Department of FineArts, Nanjing Art
College, later obtained his master'sdegree from the Department
ofArchitecture, ChongqingCollege ofArchitectural Engineering. He
used to be aneditor with the China Architecture & Building
Press, buthas, since graduating from Nanjing Art College, alsobeen
a painter, many ofhis works for which he has beenawarded a number
of prizes been shown at exhibitionsboth on a national and
provincial level. A number of hispaintings have appeared in Fine
Arts and other journals.His monograph, Chinese Vernacular
Dwellings,examines the type, layout, structure, workmanship
andaesthetics of these buildings. Drawings in traditionalstyle
accompany the text. The author has later onwritten another book on
the subject, Chinese TraditionalDomestic Architecture, and recently
had a number ofpapers published in the following journals:
Architects,Architectural Journal, Fine Arts and Studies on FineA
rts, among others.