Architectural Design and Styles

Author: Zheng Dongjun, Huang Hua (editors)
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This book systematically summarizes the representative and influential architectural schools that emerged since the emergence and development of modern architecture in the early 20th century, focusing on the elaboration of the design ideas and works of different schools. The content includes the history and development of architectural schools and modernist architecture, mainly consisting of Constructivism, Functionalism, International Style, Organic Architecture, Mies Style, Futurist Architecture, Brutalism, Symbolism,, Late Modernism, Postmodernism, Deconstructivism, Neoclassicism, New Rationalism, New Regionalism, and New Modernist Architecture. Finally, combining the actual practice of contemporary Chinese architectural creation, it analyzes contemporary Chinese architectural creation from three aspects: inheritance, transformation, and innovation of traditional architecture.