Chinese Century Architectural Classics (1)

Author: Mei Ke, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book introduces classic buildings such as 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 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 sense of history.
3. Exquisite and precious images, with a magnificent anding visual effect. The book is illustrated with full-color printing, and every page is a work of art. Profound and substantial cultural connotation. 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, 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 program 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, it reveals the cultural heritage and ideological connotations of the selected buildings from perspectives such as science, aesthetics, architecture, ethnology, humanities, urban planning, landscape architecture, and the comparison of Eastern and Western cultures. This special program 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 of books selects dozens of representative buildings from the program and organizes them into five volumes of exquisite illustrated works, roughly categorized 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 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 sense of history.
3. Exquisite and precious images, with a magnificent anding visual effect. The book is illustrated with full-color printing, and every page is a work of art. Profound and substantial cultural connotation. 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, ethnology, architectural aesthetics, and the comparison of Eastern and Western cultural integration.