中西建筑比较

Wood
stone
Western countries’ building style
China’s building style
哥特式建筑 巴洛克式建筑 飞檐斗拱 四合院式
哥特式建筑
巴洛克式建筑
Architectural “Art language”
The bracket set（斗拱） is the basic vocabulary of Chinese traditional wooden architecture.
四合院
Differences
• The layout of construction • The development process of architecture • The worth of architecture • Draw a conclusion
●the layout of the construction
Chinese architecture : focus on information the Western: focus on the physical material body
In China
• explaining in words, • there is no quantitative
focus on the physical material body
focus on information
or showing the
analysis methods and
experience.
the ideas of formal logic.
Ancient Chinese architecture, not by calculation, the structure without quantitative analysis method of formal logic.
Cornice（檐口，飞檐） has many styles. Different styles make out different art effects. Some are spry and some are strict or depressive.
Cornice can be used to express status and emotion in pavilions, terraces and towers.
Unlike China, the West Building often changes their structure and materials rapidly, and The West architecture form is diversiform.
●The worth of Architectural
open layout
Oppositely, western architecture is the spatial pattern of open monomer to high altitude development.
●The development of Architecture
Modern Architecture Ancient Architecture
The Chinese construction closed layout The Western construction open layout
closed layout
China whatever building, from housing to the palace, almost is a pattern, similar to a closed structure.
中西建筑比较
1. Different materials 2. Different building styles 3.Other differences
• China usually chooses wood material
• Western countries usually choose stone material
中国建筑则具有绘画的特点，其着眼点在于 富于意境的画面。
Draw wenku.baidu.com conclusion
Western architecture Stone open monomer layout
Chinese architecture wood closed layout
change their structure conservative and materials rapidly
Westerners
The West architecture deeply under the influence of the geometric aesthetic and mathematical logic (几何美学和数学逻辑)
西方建筑在造型方面具有雕刻化的特征，其着 力处在于两度的立面与三度的形体。
The process from architecture development, China building is conservative. According to document material knowable, Chinese architecture form and used materials 3000 years unchanged.