Illustrated Classification of Ancient Chinese Architecture

Author: Zhang Yuhuan
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features:
· Architecture is a discipline rich in content, especially ancient Chinese architecture, which is even more diverse and abundant. If you want to study, research, or explore it, where to start and how to organize it can be challenging for beginners.
· This book includes 17 different types of architecture, all of which are important and fundamental. Ancient Chinese architecture is a discipline rich in content and complex in structure, representing a precious heritage of Chinese and even world architecture. The book categorizes and explains ancient Chinese architecture, supported by photographs of actual buildings or various diagrams to help readers understand and recognize it. The book is divided into 17 chapters, totaling 175 sections. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic, covering a type of ancient building, such as cities, palaces, ancestral halls, temples, guild halls, gardens, residential buildings, and grottoes. Each section then discusses a specific building within that category, introducing representative architectural features in the form of illustrations to give readers a clearer understanding. By the end of the book, readers will have a comprehensive grasp of ancient Chinese architecture. The book is written in an accessible manner to enable more readers to understand and appreciate ancient architecture. It is suitable for researchers and protectors of ancient architecture, as well as architects, students, and teachers in architectural and related fields at universities. It can also be used as a reference for non-professionals with an interest in ancient Chinese architecture.