Classical Architecture of China in 5 Centuries.

Author: Mei Ke
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The classic buildings introduced in this book include: Tsinghua University Library, Peking University, National Library of China, Confucius Temple in Nanjing, Nanyue King Tomb in Guangzhou, National Olympic Sports Center, Henan Museum, and Xinghai Concert Hall in Guangzhou. The main features are: 1. Renowned architects such as Wu Liangyong, Qi Kang, Ma Guoxin, Cheng Taining, and Chen Shimin serve as professional consultants, ensuring the representativeness and authority of the selected buildings. 2. Little-known historical facts. Interviews with architects, participants, and witnesses give the book a strong historical sense. 3. Exquisite and precious images, with a powerful anding visual impact. The book is illustrated with full-color printing, and every page is a work of art. Profound and substantial cultural connotations. The principle of "selecting century-old classic buildings, recording the historical of a century, and reading the development process of a century" determines the focus on historical events, ethnology, architectural aesthetics, and the comparison of Eastern and Western cultural integration. This book is the essence of the illustrated version of the large-scale television special "Centennial Classics of Chinese Architecture." The special selects 100 representative buildings from China over the past century, with different ethnicities, spaces, regions, styles, forms, and materials. Its main content includes the social background, design characteristics, construction process, historical events, and impacts of the buildings, with academic value, artistic value, and historical value as the criteria. From perspectives such as science, aesthetics, architecture, ethnology, humanities, urban planning, landscape architecture, and the comparison of Eastern and Western cultures, it reveals the cultural heritage and ideological connotations of the selected buildings. This special program will be broadcast by CCTV-10, CCTV-4, 100 local television stations across the country, Phoenix TV, and several overseas television stations. This series of books selects dozens of representative buildings from the program and organizes them into five volumes of exquisite illustrated works, categorized into public buildings, memorial buildings, commercial buildings, educational buildings, and administrative buildings. The classic buildings introduced in this book include: Tsinghua University Library, Peking University, National Library of China, Confucius Temple in Nanjing, Nanyue King Tomb in Guangzhou, National Olympic Sports Center, Henan Museum, and Xinghai Concert Hall in Guangzhou. The main features are: 1. Renowned architects such as Wu Liangyong, Qi Kang, Ma Guoxin, Cheng Taining, and Chen Shimin serve as professional consultants, ensuring the representativeness and authority of the selected buildings. 2. Little-known historical facts. Interviews with architects, participants, and witnesses give the book a strong historical sense. 3. Exquisite and precious images, with a powerful anding visual impact. The book is illustrated with full-color printing, and every page is a work of art. Profound and substantial cultural connotations. The principle of "selecting century-old classic buildings, recording the historical of a century, and reading the development process of a century" determines the focus on historical events, ethnology, architectural aesthetics, and the comparison of Eastern and Western cultural integration.