226 Pages
73 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
226 Pages
73 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
226 Pages
73 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction. Part 1: Past 1. Architecture and Experience in the Chinese Correlative View 2. Homes for Plato and Confucius 3. An Aesthetics of Chinese Built Environments Part 2: Present 4. The Positivist Turn 5. Chinese Architecture in an Age of Post-Structuralism Part 3: Future 6. A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture 7. Towards an Architecture of the New Virtualism Appendix 1: Chinese Technical Terms. Illustration Credits. Bibliography. Index
Biography
David Wang is a Professor of Architecture at Washington State University. He holds BA and MArch degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MS Arch and PhD from the University of Michigan. Dr. Wang has lectured widely on design research methods in China and the Scandinavian countries. This current book comes out of many years of teaching a comparative course in European and Chinese philosophies and their impact on architecture and material culture.
