37 From Tujia Minority People's Residential Buildings to the Application of City Design

Tujia architecture, a kind of unique civilized aesthetic culture with strong local characteristics owning to its special aesthetic judgment as well as its unusual structure, influences other regions' architecture designing or even a city's “blue-map-making” in China, which embodies Chinese traditional religious, philosophic ideology: the combination of nature and human, integration of universe and human, respect to God and ancestors; while its molding patterns as well as its decoration expresses Chinese traditional cultural essence in the aspect of art: place feelings on objects. Based on the study of the existed architectural sceneries and the city developing zones, this thesis takes the architectures of Enshi city as an example to conduct a study of the designing application in a city's construction.