Force and Form in Modern Chinese Architecture: From Chinese Landscape Painting to Spatial Experience

This book systematically explores how the Daoist principle of “Tao follows its own nature” is transformed into perceptible spatial forms in contemporary architecture through the aesthetics of Chinese landscape painting.It offers an in-depth analysis of traditional techniques such as the Three Distances, Cun, and scattered perspective, revealing how visual imagery is converted into spatial experience. Through the perspective of phenomenology and cross-cultural aesthetics, the book establishes a structural connection between art and architecture.Focusing on core cases of Wang Shu's Xiangshan Campus and Ningbo Museum, as well as I.M. Pei’s Suzhou Museum and Miho Museum, the book illustrates how oriental aesthetic is shown through architectural circulation, material texture, and the play of light and shadow. Meanwhile, this book emphasizes on the importance of Chinese landscape painting in the context of globalization in the new century, revealing how it can achieve locality and universali