Classical Architecture of China: 4

Author: Mei Ke
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features:
1. Professional advisors include renowned architects such as Wu Liangyong, Qi Kang, Ma Guoxin, Cheng Taining, and Chen Shimin, ensuring the representativeness and authority of the selected buildings.
2. Unknown 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, where every page is a work of art. Profound and rich cultural connotations. The principle of "selecting classic buildings of a century, recording the historical trends of a century, and reading the development process of a century" determines the focus on historical events, folklore, 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 program selects 100 representative buildings from China over the past century, each with different ethnic backgrounds, spaces, regions, styles, forms, and materials. It primarily focuses on the social background, design characteristics, construction process, historical events, and impacts of these buildings, evaluating them based on their academic, artistic, and historical value. From perspectives such as science, aesthetics, architecture, folklore, 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, hundreds of local TV stations across the country, Phoenix TV, and several overseas TV stations.
This series of books selects dozens of representative buildings from the program and organizes them into five volumes of exquisite illustrated works, categorized roughly as public buildings, commemorative 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, Nanjing Confucius Temple, Nanyue King Tomb in Guangzhou, National Olympic Sports Center, Henan Museum, and Guangzhou Xinghai Concert Hall.
Key Features:
1. Professional advisors include renowned architects such as Wu Liangyong, Qi Kang, Ma Guoxin, Cheng Taining, and Chen Shimin, ensuring the representativeness and authority of the selected buildings.
2. Unknown 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, where every page is a work of art. Profound and rich cultural connotations. The principle of "selecting classic buildings of a century, recording the historical trends of a century, and reading the development process of a century" determines the focus on historical events, folklore, architectural aesthetics, and the comparison of Eastern and Western cultural integration.