World Architecture Art Tour

Author: Liu Dan
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book is an accessible read that guides readers on a journey around the world, admiring the ancient, exotic, and colorful architectural arts along the way. It has the following three features:
1. Using images to tell stories Images are the focus of expression in this book. The entire book selects over 600 exquisite and highly expressive images with strong architectural and visual impact to tell the stories of architecture, achieving the purpose of artistic appreciation, making it a of architectural art.
2. Concise and lively, easy to understand The book tells vivid stories brought out by each exquisite image in a reader-friendly and lively manner, while also introducing the overall architectural characteristics and historical backgrounds of different regions and eras. On the basis of a comprehensive knowledge framework, it highlights the most engaging individual elements.
3. Divided by regional architectural features, chapters cover the architectural developments of various parts of the world, each with its own characteristics. European ancient architecture has evolved with diverse schools and changes over time, while Eastern ancient architecture has strong continuity, with little change over long periods. Therefore, the book is divided into two parts:
- The upper part introduces the various architectural schools and their developments and changes from ancient Greece and Rome to the classical and romanticism of the 18th century.
- The lower part selects the fascinating stories of ancient architecture from China, Japan, Egypt, India, the Mesopotamian region, and Islam.