Architectural Design and Styles / Series on Architectural Concepts and Techniques

Author: Zheng Dongjun, Huang Hua (editors)
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This book systematically summarizes the representative and influential architectural schools that emerged since the emergence and development of modern architecture in the early 20th century, focusing on the elaboration of the design ideas and works of different schools. The content includes the history and development of architectural schools and modernist architecture, mainly comprising Constructivism, Functionalism, International Style, Organic Architecture, Miesian Style, Futurist Architecture, Brutalism, Symbolism,, Late Modernism, Postmodernism, Deconstructivism, Neoclassicism, New Rationalism, New Regionalism, and New Modernist Architecture. Finally, it analyzes contemporary Chinese architectural creation in terms of inheritance, transformation, and innovation of traditional architecture, combined with the actual practice of contemporary Chinese architecture.