A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture

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A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture is written by David Wang and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1317505670 (ISBN 10) and 9781317505679 (ISBN 13).

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.