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A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture: Past, Present, Future

By Wang , David;

Book information

Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Year
2016
ISBN
2016020485, 9781138884601, 9781138884618, 9781315715995
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
8 MB (8196635 bytes)
Pages
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Library
Memory of the World Library
Time added
2021-07-21 09:32:18

Description

A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture: Past, Present, Future examines the impact of Chinese philosophy on China’s historic structures, as well as on modern Chinese urban aesthetics and architectural forms. For architecture in China moving forward, author David Wang posits a theory, the New Virtualism, which links current trends in computational design with long-standing Chinese philosophical themes. The book also assesses twentieth-century Chinese architecture through the lenses of positivism, consciousness (phenomenology), and linguistics (structuralism and poststructuralism). Illustrated with over 70 black-and-white images, this book establishes philosophical baselines for assessing architectural developments in China, past, present and future.

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