the passage is from a girl when i search CD,xiaonv,how do you think and you can compare yours with hers:
AI---16 建筑 my practice
People have different opinions on whether public buildings reveal the attitudes and values of the society that builds them. As far as I am concerned, I believe that most of the public buildings reflect the attitudes and values of the society that builds them, while a few of the public buildings do not. In the following discussions, I would like to reason and provide evidence to support my viewpoint.
First of all, as an integrating element of a culture, most public buildings do indeed represent the different aesthetic values of respective cultures. For example, the Chinese architecture system and the European one last longest and are the most popular styles among the global architecture systems. On the one hand, using symmetric and square formats, all the Chinese palaces, temples and northern residences reflect the Confucianism and Feudality values; however, using freeform layouts, all the public garden and southern residences reveal the thoughts of Taoism--- returning to the nature. On the other hand, the gardens in Europe were affected by the western philosophy; therefore, they take on a style of beautiful, bright and neat.
Secondly, the different functions that public buildings serve in different societies directly reflect the attitudes of respective societies at that time. It is another head and chief reason that I chosen to put here. For instance, the Potala Palace in Tibet, China, a structure that deserves a place as one of the wonders eastern architecture, dedicates not only to religious belief but also to the accommodation place---over a thousand Lamas live in it today. Besides, another good example may be found in the case that the proliferation of public cultural centers and schools reflects a societal concerns for the arts and education, respectively, while new prison construction indicates a heightened concern for safety and security.
Finally, it may be true that not all the public buildings reflect the values and attitudes of the society that builds them. To illustrate, some architects purposely design buildings against the attitudes and values of the society to boost their own fames. However, this argument alone can hardly support the conclusion that public buildings do not reveal the attitudes and values of the society that builds them. In fact, these cases are rare and therefore are too weak to make this conclusion. When the advantages and disadvantages are carefully examined, the most striking conclusion is that most of the public buildings reflect the attitudes and values of the society that builds them.
To sum up, it is likely that some public buildings do not reveal the attitudes and values of the society that builds them. However, given the reasons discussed above, we can safely arrive at the conclusion that most of the public buildings reflect the attitudes and values of the society that builds them. Nowadays, more and more people share this belief. |