The Imagination of Architecture: Analogy and Difference between Orient and West

The symbolic meaning of the city shape is recognizable in the complexity of its architectures. The paper discussed the architectural differences between orient and west. Furthermore, Feng-shui was deeply discussed to identify that the beauty in architecture shows a variety of styles in both orient and west. The following conclusions are drawn: an approach that strengthens the relationship among people, social organization, and architecture objects, it needs to aim at the safeguard of environment as limited resource. This process can derive only from comparison and exchange among different cultures.