Chinese garden architecture language

Author: Wang Qijun
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book is written for teachers, students, landscape designers, and theoretical researchers in the field of environmental art. Its unique feature lies in the author's classification and analysis of the development, types, landscape art, architectural decoration, and cultural connotations of garden language. Readers can learn about the history of Chinese gardens, garden architecture, and the three major constituent elements of garden language—garden history, garden architecture, and garden culture—from this book, which also helps deepen their understanding of garden elements. The book comprehensively and multi-dimensionally categorizes a vast amount of garden materials, including practical elements such as rockery and water management, plants, paving, furniture, buildings, and decorations, as well as the principles of garden design that must be considered, such as focal points, borrowed views, framed views, and contrasting views. Readers can find inspiration and ideas for garden design from this book, and it will also provide significant practical assistance for teaching in the field of environmental art.