The Temperament of a City: A Postscript to Post-Olympic Beijing

There are two kinds of amazement in art and architecture: one relies on the ingenuity of artifice to arouse a feeling of enchantment, while the other causes an awe-inspiring ecstasy through the shock of the new. Beijing may have won the race in the latter, with spectacles such as the Olympic Games,...

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Main Author: Xing Ruan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Jap Sam Books 2013-01-01
Series:Footprint
Online Access:https://ojs-libaccp.tudelft.nl/index.php/footprint/article/view/762