何谓“拱”建筑大师路易斯,康曾经发出过极具浪漫主义色彩的“砖问”——康问砖想成为什么,砖回答说它想成为拱。这映射了作为建造者的人类对拱结构普遍固持着的朴素却深厚的情感。当然,西方建筑学与拱的深厚渊源远早于康的一语中的,两河流域的古巴比伦先民至迟在四千多年前就发现了拱结构可利用砌块抗压性能来实现建筑跨度的特性,而西方建筑历史上继古希腊后的第二段王朝——古罗马时代也是随着由火山灰砂浆技术所引领的成熟拱券技术而被载入史 What is “Arch”? Master Luis, Kang once sent out a highly romantic “brick asked” - Kang asked brick what they want, brick replied that it wants to become an arch. This mirrors the simple yet profound emotions of man as a builder of the arch structure. Of course, the deep origins of Western architecture and arches were much earlier than those of Kang. The ancient Babylonian ancestors in the two river basins discovered the compressive properties of block structures available to arch structures more than four thousand years ago Span of buildings, and the second dynasty of ancient Western architecture dating back to ancient Greece was also included in the history of the ancient Roman arch with the mature arch technology led by volcanic ash mortar technology