Tao of Architecture (eBook)

Amos Ih Tiao Chang (Autor)

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2017
104 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8508-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Amos Ih Tiao Chang (1916-98) was professor of architecture at Kansas State University. His books include China: Tao in Architecture. David Wang is professor of architecture in the School of Design and Construction at Washington State University. He is the author of A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture: Past, Present, Future.

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Frank Lloyd Wright first noted the affinity between modern Western architecture and the philosophy of the ancient Chinese writer Laotzu. In this classic work, Amos Ih Tiao Chang expands on that idea, developing the parallel with the aid of architectural drawings and Chinese paintings. Now with a new foreword by David Wang, this book reveals the vitality of intangible, or negative, elements. Chang writes that these qualities make architectonic forms "e;come alive, become human, naturally harmonize with one another, and enable us to experience them with human sensibility."e; The Tao of Architecture continues to be essential reading for understanding the intersection between architecture and philosophy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Vorwort: David Wang
• Zusatzinfo: 4 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Abscissa • Accuracy and precision • Analogy • Arthur Waley • asymmetry • Availability • Beijing • Buddhism • Buoyancy • buttress • By Nature • Cantilever • Cartesian coordinate system • centroid • chinese architecture • Chinese characters • Chinese philosophy • Confucianism • Confucius • conjecture • Consciousness • Courage • Designer • design thinking • Edmund Husserl • Efficiency • Engineering • Entasis • Eventuality (phrenology) • Factor of safety • fragility • Gestalt psychology • greatness • Historiography • Humidity • Hundred Schools of Thought • inference • Instant • interaction • Irrationality • Laozi • light • Lighting • Lightness • Literature • Longevity • loudness • Martin Heidegger • Masonry • Measurement • Mental image • Modernity • Mohism • nationalist government • Natural light • Philosophy • Pigment • Princeton University • Proportion (architecture) • quality of life • Quantity • Rana Mitter • Rationality • recitation • Relativism • Requirement • result • Retard (pejorative) • Roof • Ruler • sense of place • Shennong • Sima Qian • space • Strength of materials • Structural engineering • Suggestion • Surface Finish • symmetry • Taoism • Tao Te Ching • theory • Three-dimensional space (mathematics) • Timbre • Vertical direction • Visual Field • Visual space • vitality • Wall footing • warfare • Warring States Period • Weather • weathering • Window blind • Wing-tsit Chan • World literature • Writing • WU WEI • Yangism • Zhuangzi (book)
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8508-6 / 1400885086
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8508-4 / 9781400885084