Interweaving of Rationality and Romance: A Collection of Essays on Chinese Architectural Aesthetics

Author: Wang Shiren
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Great variability at the material level, strong conservatism at the psychological level, and the combination of these two levels ultimately manifests as a cultural phenomenon of a nation. This is particularly evident in architecture. The article "The Organic Composition and Movement of Chinese Architectural Culture" focuses on explaining this phenomenon.
Aesthetics is both an ancient and a young discipline. It emerged early, yet even today, many fundamental concepts, definitions, and even the objects of aesthetic research remain controversial. Let alone where the boundaries lie between aesthetic art in architecture and aesthetics itself, they are also difficult to distinguish. Architecture is undoubtedly aesthetic, and it also contains content for art studies. How should we properly handle the relationship between the two?
The first two articles in this collection attempt to introduce aesthetic issues in architecture from a general theoretical perspective. The next three articles explore the theoretical aspects of national aesthetic consciousness. "Reconsidering National Form" was included in the three volumes of "New Chinese Literature Series" edited by Wang Zhaowen. It evaluates Chinese architecture from the perspective of art studies and can also be considered a side of architectural aesthetics.