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This book is a collection of architectural culture essays by Wang Shu, the world's highest award in architecture, the winner of the Pritzker Prize and a famous architect. This book starts from architecture, but is not limited to architecture. It is also a book that explores the contemporary nature of Chinese traditional culture. The contemporaneity of traditional culture has always been an important topic that has been repeatedly pondered and discussed by the academic circle in recent years. With his own academic quality and experience, Wang Shu has constructed a unique aesthetic system of oriental aesthetics, and also provided a path for traditional culture to enter the contemporary era. , which has very important academic reference value for the present.

10 Essays on Architectural Culture—From the artistic conception of landscape paintings in the Song Dynasty to the aesthetic appeal of gardens in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the author deeply analyzes traditional Chinese culture and art, and explores the aesthetic value of traditional culture and oriental philosophy from the perspective of architecture.

4 essays on the history of architectural works—Wang Shu’s famous architectural works include the Xiangshan Campus of the China Academy of Art and the Ningbo Art Museum. The birth of the work. From it, we can see the author's in-depth thinking on "good architecture" and "how to make contemporary architecture that returns to tradition".

6 prose essays + 1 dialogue - the author talks about personal experience, society and life, and touches on topics such as living space that people care about today. The growth process and humanistic feelings of the master are clearly seen.