Classical Chinese Architecture of a Century (4)

Author: Mei Ke, Editor-in-Chief
Publisher:
Publishing Date: 2006-01-01
Features:
1. Renowned architects such as Wu Liangyong, Qi Kang, Ma Guoxin, Cheng Taining, and Chen Shimin served 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 richly illustrated, full-color printed, and every page is a work of art. Profound and substantial cultural connotation. The principle of "selecting classic buildings of a century, recording the historical events 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 major television special "Classics of Chinese Architecture in a Century." The special program selected one hundred representative buildings from China over the past century, from different ethnic groups, 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, artistic, 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 was broadcast by CCTV Channel 10 and Channel 4, as well as hundreds of 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 broadly as public buildings, commemorative buildings, commercial buildings, educational buildings, and administrative buildings. The classic buildings introduced in this book include: the Library of Tsinghua University, Peking University, the National Library of China, Confucius Temple in Nanjing, the Nanyue King Tomb in Guangzhou, the National Olympic Sports Center, the Henan Museum, and the Guangzhou Xinghai Concert Hall. The main features are:
1. Renowned architects such as Wu Liangyong, Qi Kang, Ma Guoxin, Cheng Taining, and Chen Shimin served 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 richly illustrated, full-color printed, and every page is a work of art. Profound and substantial cultural connotation. The principle of "selecting classic buildings of a century, recording the historical events 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.