Chinese Century Architectural Classics (3)

Author: Mei Ke, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book introduces classic buildings such as Central Street in Harbin, Tianjin Industrial Hall, 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 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 substantial cultural connotations. The principle of "selecting century-old classic buildings, recording the historical vicissitudes of a century, and reading the development process of a century" determines the focus on historical events, folkloristics, 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, spatial types, geographical regions, architectural 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 value, artistic value, and historical value. From perspectives such as science, aesthetics, architecture, folkloristics, humanities, urban planning, landscape architecture, and the comparison of Eastern and Western cultures, it reveals the cultural heritage and intellectual depth of the selected buildings. This special 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 special and organizes them into five volumes of exquisite illustrated works, categorized broadly as public buildings, commemorative buildings, commercial buildings, educational and cultural buildings, and administrative buildings. The classic buildings introduced in this book include: Central Street in Harbin, Tianjin Industrial Hall, 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 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 substantial cultural connotations. The principle of "selecting century-old classic buildings, recording the historical vicissitudes of a century, and reading the development process of a century" determines the focus on historical events, folkloristics, architectural aesthetics, and the comparison of Eastern and Western cultural integration.