[外语学习]AmericanspaceChineseplace.pptVIP

2010-11-24 Zhang Y. NTU American Space and Chinese Place Architecture mirrors the material and aesthetic standards of a society. Classical architecture is no exception. Americans have a sense of space, not of place. Go to an American home in exurbia, and almost the first thing you do is drift toward the picture window. How curious that the first compliment you pay your host inside his house is to say how lovely it is outside his house! He is pleased that you should admire his vistas. The distant horizon is not merely a line separating earth form sky, it is a symbol of the future. The American