Disappeared Architecture Pursuing the Poetic Chapter of Melancholy Breathing Elsewhere

Author: Michelle Michelle
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: There are only two kinds of architecture in the world—one that we can see, and another that we can no longer see. This book tells the story of the latter. Although they have disappeared, they still exist, existing in our imagination, in the past three thousand or five thousand years, or even in the not-so-distant past. These once magnificent buildings, due to the erosion of time or human destruction, have either become desolate ruins or turned into fleeting dust. Someone has said that architecture is a solidified symphony—when solidification is broken, that tragic beauty is equally stunning. And how can the secrets hidden among those piles of ruins not inspire longing?