There is evidence that greater aesthetic experience can be linked to artworks when their corresponding meanings can be successfully inferred and understood. Modern cultural-expo architecture can be considered a form of artistic creation and design, and the corresponding design philosophy may be derived from representational objects or abstract social meanings. The present study investigates whether cultural-expo architecture with an easy-to-understand architectural appearance design is perceived as more beautiful and how architectural photographs and different types of descriptions of architectural appearance designs interact and produce higher aesthetic evaluations. The results showed an obvious aesthetic preference for cultural-expo architecture with an easy-to-understand architectural appearance design (Experiment 1). Moreover, we found that the aesthetic rating score of architectural photographs accompanied by an abstract description was significantly higher than that of those accompanied by a representational description only under the difficult-to-understand design condition (Experiment 2). The results indicated that people preferred cultural-expo architecture with an easy-to-understand architectural appearance design due to a greater understanding of the design, providing further evidence that abstract descriptions can provide supplementary information and explanation to enhance the sense of beauty of abstract cultural-expo architecture.

有证据表明，如果能够成功地推断和理解艺术品的相应含义，则可以将更大的审美体验与艺术品联系起来。现代文博建筑可以看作是艺术创作和设计的一种形式，相应的设计理念可能来源于具象的物体或抽象的社会意义。本研究探讨了具有易于理解的建筑外观设计的文博建筑是否被认为更美丽，以及建筑照片和不同类型的建筑外观设计描述如何相互作用并产生更高的审美评价。结果表明，对于具有易于理解的建筑外观设计的文化博览建筑具有明显的审美偏好（实验1）。而且，我们发现，仅在难以理解的设计条件下，带有抽象描述的建筑照片的审美评分明显高于带有具象描述的那些（实验 2）。结果表明，人们更喜欢建筑外观设计通俗易懂的文博建筑，因为对设计的理解程度更高，进一步证明抽象描述可以提供补充信息和解释，增强抽象文化的美感。 -世博建筑。