What was Chang’an City like in the Tang Dynasty? What is the meaning of “temple”? What are the differences between an imperial garden and a private garden? What changes did Chinese modern and contemporary architecture go through? What characteristics does Chinese architecture show in the new century? This book containing a
This book first introduces the characteristics and development courses of several main types of Chinese ancient traditional architecture, then briefly describes the complicated course of Chinese architecture’s development in the modern contemporary times, and analyzes the diversified current architectural types and directions of development in the end, in the hope of showing interested people an overview of Chinese architecture.
Cai Yanxin, female, born in 1980, is a native of Jiaxing, Zhejiang. She graduated from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University in Shanghai with a doctoral degree in 2009. Now she is an associate professor at the School of Architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University, mainly studying traditional architectural culture, historical and cultural towns, and protection and utilization of traditional architecture.