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What is architectural art?

From the use point of view, there are residential buildings, production buildings, cultural buildings, garden buildings, memorial buildings, mausoleum buildings, religious buildings and so on.

According to the building materials used, there are wooden buildings, masonry buildings, reinforced concrete buildings and steel-wood buildings.

From the national style, there are China, Japanese, Islamic, Italian, British, Russian and so on.

In terms of the style of the times, it can be divided into ancient Greek style, ancient Roman style, Gothic style, Renaissance style, classicism style and so on.

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Characteristics of architectural art:

1, the unity of aesthetic value and political and ethical value. Buildings with high artistic value also play a role in maintaining and strengthening social, political and ethical systems and ideology.

2, rooted in profound traditional culture, showing a distinct humanistic spirit. All the elements of architectural art, such as scale, rhythm, composition, form, characters and style, are based on the aesthetic psychology of contemporary people and can be appreciated and understood by people, without ups and downs and strange and inexplicable images.

3. Holiness and comprehensiveness. Almost all architectural works have mobilized all the factors and techniques that may constitute architectural art at that time, forming an overall image. From the overall environment to the single house, from the external sequence to the internal space, from the color decoration to the affiliated art, every part is not dispensable. If one of them is removed, the overall effect will be damaged.