Please talk about what are the characteristics of modern architecture in foreign countries.

Western European and American architecture

Every time, they emphasize the timelessness and sublimity of the art of architecture with huge volumes and transcendent scales. They have a strict geometry, often with a sense of externality of the dome and spire to render the vertical strength of the house, to form a proud stand, and the appearance of nature against the characteristics. The representatives of ancient Egyptian architectural culture - pyramids and temples, will highlight this feature. Pyramid is the Egyptian pharaohs or nobles of the mausoleum, the ancient Egyptians believe in the concept of immortality of the soul, that after the death of the permanent preservation of the physical body, can be in the kingdom of heaven to seek eternal life. As a result, Egyptian pharaohs had to build pyramids for themselves when they were alive, representing the belief in eternity.

Japanese residential architecture

As a neighboring country of China, since the Tang and Song dynasties, there have been frequent commercial exchanges between the two countries, which have had a significant impact on the Japanese residential architecture

The Japanese residential architecture

has retained the Chinese influence on the style and form of residential architecture.

The Japanese folk houses have left Chinese traces in both style and form.

Large roofs,

wooden frames, and

nailless mortise and tenon

mortise are the two countries' preferred modelling and structural methods

.

The idea of building houses is also based on

harmony between man and nature.

Based on absorbing the culture of the Tang Dynasty and combining it with

its own national and regional characteristics,

Japan gradually created

its own traditional residential art.

Japan emphasized more on big roofs,

roofs

were designed with straight lines, and curves were seldom used.

Even when curves are used in some places,

they are very

gentle.

East Asian dwellings are mainly Chinese,

including the traditional dwellings of various

ethnic groups in China and multi-ethnic groups

with vast regional characteristics, Beijing courtyard houses, Fujian earth

stairs, hanging footstools in western Hunan and Sichuan, and one

pearl marks in Yunnan, etc. The most famous dwellings in East Asia are those in the west of China, which were built by the Chinese government.

Tatami mats in the famous Japanese houses represent the characteristics of

traditional Japanese houses. Japanese Japanese folk

habitat by the influence of Buddhism, respect for nature, simple

simple, flexible arrangement, the room between the sliding

door separation, each other because of borrowing, smooth space, room

internal and external through the light wooden structure of the wood color and

contrast with the white walls, the house is rich in the sense of horizontal

The Japanese traditional folk house, tatami mats represent the characteristics of the Japanese traditional folk house.