From the laws of ancient and modern architectural beauty, do you see why the landmark art in the East and the West will affect people's hearts?

In ancient Greece in 450 BC, the Temple of Delphi, located on the slope at the foot of panas Mountain, was one of the most sacred places? The residence of Apollo and the nine muses who inspired artists.

Greeks like to gather in palaces at night to tell these stories. Gradually, Greek speakers came to these special palaces from all over the world and asked for the Oracle. This temple began to evoke other more distant associations and became a place of pilgrimage.

There is no city here, but beautiful temples and palaces are gradually built in breathtaking natural scenery. Some artistically mature buildings, elegant statues and entertainment buildings attached to temples, such as stadiums and theaters, have formed a prosperous city-state.

These buildings are sacrifices in themselves and have various functions? Mark the center of the earth, provide shelter for mysterious Oracle communicators, ensure the safety of sacrifices from various city-States, provide shelter for visitors and priests, and entertain them with sports and stage plays? A temple has thus become the center of a city and even the world.

1957 Sydney, Danish architect John? Wu Zhong won the design commission of Sydney Opera House with some scribbled but elegant sketches. But he didn't know how to realize his whimsy, so he made major changes to the design scheme, which made the project from high cost to unsustainable and delayed again and again.

After many hardships, such as firing the designer to find someone else and raising new funds, this seemingly impossible and expensive behemoth can not only meet the use function of the opera house, but also become a symbol of the whole of Australia.

This is the beauty of this introductory book "The Story of Architecture", which is full of exquisite hand-painted pictures. I want to briefly introduce the basic composition of architecture and the characteristic styles of architectural styles in different periods, which is one of the important messages conveyed to us:

This is a refuge based on practicality. How can it become a great art?

The influence of culture plays a role here.

Like the pyramids in Egypt and the Parthenon in Greece, the altars, temples, palaces and temples that have stood for many years in Beijing have completely lost their original practical functions, but they still retain their pure artistic and cultural values and will continue to enjoy this honor forever.

Although the artistic value of architecture can exist without practicality, it can never exist independently without solid and reasonable structural principles.

Lin Zeng said that the balance ratio of beauty and the number of aesthetic features are the natural results of human rational skills, and under the limitation of physics, various problems in the structure have been reasonably solved. The harmony between artificial manufacturing and natural trends to a certain extent is the foundation of art, and the facilities are carved in necessary structural parts, which is the icing on the cake; Reluctantly saying that the structure is purely decorative, is this gilding the lily or the ruins of art?