The definitive English-language historian you want to look out for is Nancy S. Steinhardt. Chinese Architecture: A History is her most recent major work and is basically exactly what you want; it covers Chinese architecture from prehistory right through to Western influence with diagrams/photos and very thorough explanation the whole way, covering the core structure itself, as well as dynastic styles, city planning, religious styles too. The focus is heavily on China rather than the other East Asian nations, but it does go into them a little and it's classical Chinese architecture that laid the foundations for Korean and Japanese timber-frame styles anyway so it's probably the best place to start.

For more cross border stuff, she also has a good essay The Sixth Century in East Asian Architecture that has more explicit focus on Korea and Japan, as well one that focuses more on China from 200-600, Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil. Those both may sound pretty limited in scope from their titles, but for Korean and Japanese architecture it's by far the most important period -- it was when they adopted the classical Chinese styles, and so everything that comes later is built on top of these styles from the mid 1st millennium.

More eclectically, there's Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays -- a series of papers by one of the world's foremost scholars on the subject, Fu Xinian (also edited by Steinhardt, incidentally). They cover a whole range of subjects, from the Warring States to Ming, but go into a lot of depth (more than the previous book) on some very important subjects and have even more thorough diagrams throughout. I wouldn't recommend it as the first stop though, and most of the vital stuff (including many of the diagrams) appears in the first book I mentioned.

Finally, Qinghua Guo has a couple of essays you might want to look at, also both filled with useful diagrams. "Timber Building Structures in Chosen Korea" is one of the only English language works I've been able to find that explicitly compares Korean and Chinese architecture, noting similarities and differences while mostly focusing on the main palace halls. "Yingzao Fashi: Twelfth-Century Chinese Building Manual" is also a super important subject; a Song-dynasty reference work that enumerates relationships between different modular parts a traditional building (the relationships are thought to well predate the work), which is pretty fundamental to how they normally go together. Steinhardt also has a chapter on the manual but if you're only going to read one thing, this might be it.

There's a lot more beyond this, especially once you get into more specific subjects or periods (classical city/palace planning, Korean houses, Japanese castles, The Great Wall, etc), but this should get you started at least. For 3D models it's also worth mentioning a lot of diagrams are floating around online (I scavenge them regularly myself for the same purpose, haha); a lot of the prominent buildings are fairly regularly maintained, and as the books go over, the traditional wooden style utilizes fairly standardized modules that make doing so easier, so there are often records from preservation efforts/studies that were drawn up while some were going on.