Landscapes composed within a few dozen paces: without leaving town, the delights of mountains and forests.
From the axial symmetry of the Forbidden City to the winding paths of Suzhou gardens, Chinese architecture is a dialogue between two philosophies: imperial order and private reverie. Mortise-and-tenon joints hold up halls that have stood a thousand years without a single nail.
World Heritage — the literati art of compressing nature into a human space.
