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The Tao of Architecture / Amos Ih Tiao Chang.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Classics ; 97Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (104 p.) : 4 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691175713
  • 9781400885084
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.1 23
LOC classification:
  • NA2500 .C45 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Foreword to the Princeton Classics Edition -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- National Life-movement in Architecture Vision -- Variability and Complement -- Balance and Equilibrium -- Individuality and Unity -- Conclusion
Summary: 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 "come alive, become human, naturally harmonize with one another, and enable us to experience them with human sensibility." The Tao of Architecture continues to be essential reading for understanding the intersection between architecture and philosophy.
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Frontmatter -- Foreword to the Princeton Classics Edition -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- National Life-movement in Architecture Vision -- Variability and Complement -- Balance and Equilibrium -- Individuality and Unity -- Conclusion

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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 "come alive, become human, naturally harmonize with one another, and enable us to experience them with human sensibility." The Tao of Architecture continues to be essential reading for understanding the intersection between architecture and philosophy.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)