Contemporary Architecture of China and Japan

ABSTRACT

Compared to the palaces accommodations in southern China are very modest. For example, buildings in the mountainous regions of China or the placement of landscape complex are sometimes deliberately acted in contravention of a symmetric form in order to create a rich variety of building tracks. After World War II, many cities were built on the western model again. It not only set architectures from the West, but also the related materials through. Today there are mostly high office building of glass-reinforced concrete and the inner cities of Japan.

Contemporary Architecture of China and Japan

Introduction

About the 6th Century AD, Buddhist monks and scholars came to Japan and brought Chinese architecture in the country. In particular, the newly built Buddhist temple with its ornate wooden facades should be formative for Japanese architecture. They burned wood construction but due to their low very often, however, were built again and again. Thus, hardly any temples in the original have been preserved, however, obtained by the reconstruction took place again today.

Comparison

Architecture in Japan is one of the few in the world, whose work until the middle of 21st century built of wood. All of the oldest surviving wooden buildings of the world are located in Japan and in China. The most powerful impetus to the development of architecture, as well as the entire culture of Japan, gave the acceptance of Buddhism. The main landmark in the architecture of the XIX century was China, but Japanese architects have always turned to overseas examples of authentic Japanese products .

Compared to the palaces accommodations in southern China are very modest. Houses are covered with dark gray tiled roofs, their walls covered with white flowers, and wooden frames - dark - coffee color. Around the houses grow bamboo and bananas. Similar facilities exist and are currently in the southern provinces Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, and others. Another feature of Chinese ancient architecture - is the effect of giving a coherent composition, i.e., creating a band of many homes. China has not taken to build a freestanding building, whether it's palatial buildings or private rooms, they always acquire additional buildings. The main building courtyard surrounded by buildings that are uniformly separated from him, and symmetrical.

Edo, the former name of Tokyo, was the capital of the shoguns flourished between the 16th and 18 Century AD! Their population grew rapidly and in 1721 it was the largest city in the world with over one million inhabitants. Since the city has often been plagued by fires, was a lightweight design provided by zersörte houses quickly and easily be able to rebuild. These large timber depots in the city were created.

However, the construction of an architectural ensemble is not necessarily placed symmetrically. For example, buildings in the mountainous regions of China or the placement of landscape complex are sometimes deliberately acted in contravention of a symmetric form in order to create a rich variety of building tracks. The pursuit of such a variety of forms in the construction of ...