Chinese and Western architectural styles of different, essentially because of the different Eastern and Western cultures. As a general understanding of Chinese culture, respect others, while the weight of Western culture; and moral weight of Chinese culture and the arts, the West was more emphasis on science and religion; Chinese culture and re-integration, unifying and pay attention to co-exist with the integrated nature of the West is a different era or the re - The unique spirit of a variety of genres, and so on. The different cultural traditions reflected in the architectural style, that is, differences between Chinese and Western architectural culture.
Fundamentally speaking, the difference between Chinese and Western architectural art of the first material from the different: a long tradition of Western architecture with stones as the main body; and traditional oriental architecture is always based on wood as the framework. Such building materials different from their respective architecture provides different possibilities.中西
建筑风格的不同，从本质上看是因中西文化的不同。按一般的理解，
中国文化重人，而西方文化重物；中国文化重道德和艺术，西方则较重视科学与宗教；中国文化重融合、统摄且讲究并存与一体性，西方则重不同时代或多种流派的独特精神，等等。文化传统的不同反映在建筑风格上，也就是中西建筑文化的差异.
从根本上说，中西方建筑艺术的差异首先来自于材料的不同：传统的西方建筑长期以石头为主体；而传统的东方建筑则一直是以木头为构架的。这种建筑材料的不同，为其各自的建筑艺术提供了不同的可能性。