Classical Architecture of China: 3

Author: Mei Ke
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The classic buildings introduced in this book include: Central Street in Harbin, Tianjin Industrial Building, Beijing Friendship Hotel, Wuyishan Hotel in Fujian, Huangshan Yunyu Hotel, Shenzhen Nanhai Hotel, and Shanghai Jinmao Tower. 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 sense of history.
3. Exquisite and precious images, with a powerful anding visual impact. The book is illustrated and full-color printed, with every page considered a work of art. Profound and rich cultural connotations. The principle of "selecting classic buildings of a century, recording the historical of a century, and reading the development process of a century" determines the focus on historical events, folk culture, architectural aesthetics, and the comparison of Eastern and Western cultural integration.
This book is the essence of the illustrated version of the major television special "Centennial Classics of Chinese Architecture." The special selects 100 representative buildings from China over the past century, each with different ethnic backgrounds, spaces, regions, styles, forms, and materials. Its main content includes the social background of their birth, design characteristics, construction processes, historical events, and their impacts and achievements. Judged by academic value, artistic value, and historical value, the special reveals the cultural heritage and ideological connotations of the selected buildings from perspectives such as science, aesthetics, architecture, folk culture, humanities, urban studies, landscape architecture, and the comparison of Eastern and Western cultures. This special will be broadcast by CCTV-10, CCTV-4, hundreds of local television stations across the country, Phoenix TV, and several overseas television stations.
This series selects dozens of representative buildings from the special and organizes them into five volumes of exquisite illustrated works, roughly categorized into public buildings, commemorative buildings, commercial buildings, educational buildings, and administrative buildings. The classic buildings introduced in this book include: Central Street in Harbin, Tianjin Industrial Building, Beijing Friendship Hotel, Wuyishan Hotel in Fujian, Huangshan Yunyu Hotel, Shenzhen Nanhai Hotel, and Shanghai Jinmao Tower. 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 sense of history.
3. Exquisite and precious images, with a powerful anding visual impact. The book is illustrated and full-color printed, with every page considered a work of art. Profound and rich cultural connotations. The principle of "selecting classic buildings of a century, recording the historical of a century, and reading the development process of a century" determines the focus on historical events, folk culture, architectural aesthetics, and the comparison of Eastern and Western cultural integration.