Style of Ancient Architecture -- Illustrated Series of Chinese Ancient Buildings

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Features: This series of books is a collection of architectural knowledge that caters to both the refined and the general audience, serving as a reference tool. The authors analyze the history, development, structure, details, customs, feng shui, and decoration of traditional Chinese architecture from a comprehensive and innovative perspective. The book vividly and engagingly introduces Chinese ancient architectural elements through illustrations and photographs.
Target Audience: Architects, architectural workers.
China's traditional architecture is predominantly Han-style architecture, which includes categories such as cities, palaces, temples, mausoleums, monasteries and pagodas, grottoes, Buddha towers, government offices, scenic pavilions and towers, royal palaces, public buildings, residential houses, defensive structures, and bridges. Emphasizing the beauty of group composition is a distinctive feature of Chinese architecture. The composition is often rigorous, frequently adopting a central axis symmetry model. However, in gardens, certain mountain temples, and residential areas, free-form compositional styles are also commonly used.
From an intrinsic pattern analysis, Chinese architecture adheres to aesthetic principles of simplicity, balance, depth, and subtlety, reflecting the aesthetic pursuits of the Chinese people's national character.