- China, Contemporary Chinese Architecture, Structure, Architecture, Chinese gardens, Landscape Architecture, and 73 moreLandscape History, China studies, Art History, Modern Architecture, History and Theory of Modern Architecture, Architectural Education, Garden History, Architectural Theory, Landscape Theory, Brian Massumi, Gilbert Simondon, Individuation, Atmospheres (Architecture), Cultural Theory, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson, Bernard Stiegler, Jean-Luc Nancy, Chinese Art, John Sallis, Ann Bergren, Representation, Ground Distances, Chinese Studies, History of Landscape Architecture, Chinese art history, Aesthetics, Gardens, History of Art, Architectural History, Song Dynasty, Classical Chinese Philosophy, Chinese literature, Authorship, Commentary, Commentary Traditions, Architecture and Phenomenology, Comparative Philosophy, Chinese Garden Study, History of Chinese architecture and garden design, Architectural Criticism, Chinese Philosophy, Atelier Deshaus, Contemporary Chinese Architects, Rudolph Schindler, Vitruvius, History of Professions, History and Historiography of Modern Architecture, Social Study of Technology, Neuroaesthetics, Photography, Metalepsis, Spatial Perception, Historiography, Theory Of Architecture, History of architecture, Gilles Deleuze and Henri Bergson, Bergson, Henri, Word and Image Studies, Word and Image Studies, Intermedial Studies, Architectural Geometry, Garden and Landscape Studies, History of Perspective in Painting, Benoit Goetz, James J. Gibson, Affordances, Phenomenology and Architecture, History of Landscape Architecture and Gardens, Contemporary Architecture, Synesthesia, and Paul Ricoeuredit
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Catalogue essay for an exhibition of the work of Richard Grayson (The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University) and Steven Wigg at the University of South Australia Art Museum in Adelaide in August 1996.
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This essay presents a series of general reflections on the development of architectural periodicals in the last 200 years. Drawing on examples from China, Japan, America, France and Australia, it explores the cultural functioning of... more
This essay presents a series of general reflections on the development of architectural periodicals in the last 200 years. Drawing on examples from China, Japan, America, France and Australia, it explores the cultural functioning of architectural periodicals. Specific topics include: the self-identification of architects, architects' attitudes towards their foreign counterparts, journal publishing as a way to further one's own architectural practice, how a journal might develop its readership, and the changes to the meaning of architectural terms in the processes of communication.
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One of the most recalcitrant problems facing architectural theory in Western universities is its insistent Eurocentric focus and framework which are often caught up with universalist pretensions. A key question that confronts contemporary... more
One of the most recalcitrant problems facing architectural theory in Western universities is its insistent Eurocentric focus and framework which are often caught up with universalist pretensions. A key question that confronts contemporary scholarship is: How can the terms of cross-cultural work in architectural theory be articulated to address this problem of Eurocentricism? 1 would argue that this question should not be considered as one addressed to architectural theorists of a specialized kind, but as one related to the ...
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This paper deals with issues and possibilities of cross-cultural study in architectural education, especially the teaching of architecture history and theory in schools with students of diverse cultural background. The paper argues that... more
This paper deals with issues and possibilities of cross-cultural study in architectural education, especially the teaching of architecture history and theory in schools with students of diverse cultural background. The paper argues that responding to cultural diversity involves not only a more comprehensive curriculum, but also a correlated view of curriculum content, skills, course structure and interdisciplinarity, and a sensitivity towards differences that cannot be accounted for in a universalist frame of reference. Instances of the cultural ...
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This paper offers a preliminary reading of the Painted Album of the Garden of Artless Administration by Wen Zhenming (Wen Hengshan Zhuo Zheng Yuan shi hua ce 文衡山拙政园诗画册, 1533) and articulates the imagination of multi-sensory experiences of... more
This paper offers a preliminary reading of the Painted Album of the Garden of Artless Administration by Wen Zhenming (Wen Hengshan Zhuo Zheng Yuan shi hua ce 文衡山拙政园诗画册, 1533) and articulates the imagination of multi-sensory experiences of this garden by focusing on text-image relationships in the album. The analysis begins with an overview of all thirty-one sections of the album and then undertakes a close reading of five sections. The reading articulates the imaginal world constructed by Wen Zhengming and rethinks issues of representation and referentiality in relation to this album. This paper argues that the album as iconotext points to multi-sensory experiences, rather than objective reconstruction.
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This is a draft bibliography on the Zhuo Zheng Yuan (Garden of Artless Administration, also popularly known as the Garden of the Humble Administrator) in Suzhou.
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Research Interests: Jacques Rancière, Giorgio Agamben, Chinese gardens, Metalepsis, Spatial Perception, and 13 moreDissensus, Martin Seel, Aperspectival World, Chinese Traditional Architecture, Spatial Depth, le partage du sensible, Chinese Landscape Architecture, Garden of the Humble Administrator, Zhuo Zheng Yuan, Garden of Artless Administration, Suzhou gardens, aperspectival effects, and subjective vision
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By pointing to specific moments in some recent writings well known to Western readers in landscape architecture, the author shows how their work might harbour possibilities for cross culture exchange, and that recent developments in... more
By pointing to specific moments in some recent writings well known to Western readers in landscape architecture, the author shows how their work might harbour possibilities for cross culture exchange, and that recent developments in landscape architecture theory has, more than at any other time in this century, opened up possibilities for fruitful engagement with Chinese culture interests. At last, the author demonstrates that theoretic reflection and writing can serve to a role in revitalizing cross culture exchange in landscape architecture.
Abstract The seventeenth-century Chinese treatise on garden design, Yuan ye, is wellknown as the first Chinese text that articulated the notion of 'borrowing views '(jie jing). In the first chapter of the... more
Abstract The seventeenth-century Chinese treatise on garden design, Yuan ye, is wellknown as the first Chinese text that articulated the notion of 'borrowing views '(jie jing). In the first chapter of the treatise,'borrowing'is one of the four key terrns explaining the importance of the master designer. The discussion of this key term indicates its relevance to the question of 'the immediate garden'and its relationship to a 'larger landscape':
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Abstract The following guide is offered as a reference tool of first recourse for students of Chinese garden history. Chinese gardens did not form a category in traditional Chinese bibliographies, and even twentieth-century bibliographies... more
Abstract The following guide is offered as a reference tool of first recourse for students of Chinese garden history. Chinese gardens did not form a category in traditional Chinese bibliographies, and even twentieth-century bibliographies of Chinese studies and Asian studies do not always feature architecture and gardens as standard categories. Many scholars will appreciate the necessity of searching through a considerable number of categories in most bibliographies in order to gather pertinent sources on Chinese gardens ...
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Studies a Song-dynasty encyclopedia, the Gu jin he bi shi lei bei yao (古今合璧事类备要, 1257) and a Ming-dynasty book of suspended quotations, the Zui Gu Tang Jian sao (醉古堂剑扫, 1624).
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The 17th-century Chinese treatise on garden design, Yuan ye, once considered an obscure text, is considered today to be a classic. This paper is a study of four key terms from Yuan ye—ti("suitability"), yi ("appropriateness"), yin... more
The 17th-century Chinese treatise on garden design, Yuan ye, once considered an obscure text, is considered today to be a classic. This paper is a study of four key terms from Yuan ye—ti("suitability"), yi ("appropriateness"), yin ("interdependence"), jie ("borrowing")—by following and elaborating an international outlook championed by the late Professor Chen Zhi, the distinguished scholar of this treatise. This international outlook is concerned with the reading of Yuan ye from the perspective of contemporary comparative philosophy, paying particular regard to differences in interpreting the four key terms in the Platonic-Cartesian tradition and in the classical Chinese tradition. Attention is paid to the interpretive framework of treating these four key terms as principles of garden design within the Western tradition of dualisms, in particular those of subject and object, mind and body. An alternative reading is provided in accordance with the classical Chinese notion of the mutual dependency of polar terms.
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This paper presents a close reading of the chapter on buildings in the 17th-century Chinese treatise on garden design, Yuan ye.
Research Interests: Chinese Studies, Chinese Art, Garden History, Chinese Ancient Gardens, Chinese art history, and 6 moreHistory of Chinese architecture and garden design, Chinese Architecture and Feng Shui, Chinese Cultural Studies, Garden and Landscape Studies, History of Landscape Architecture and Gardens, and Garden and Landscape History
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Aperspectival effects in the Liu Yuan, Suzhou: This is a Chinese translation of a conference paper originally presented in English in Gwangju in 2015. It has a substantially expanded introduction.
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This essay is offers a close reading of the final chapter of Yuan ye, the famous Chinese treatise on garden design from the Ming dynasty. Unlike my early writings on this treatise which was focused on the explication of keywords, this... more
This essay is offers a close reading of the final chapter of Yuan ye, the famous Chinese treatise on garden design from the Ming dynasty. Unlike my early writings on this treatise which was focused on the explication of keywords, this essay demonstrates a new approach to reading the Chinese text line-by-line. The peripatetic nature of the thinking discovered in the treatise is discussed in terms of the work of Wu Kuang-ming in comparative philosophy.
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In the present paper, we propose to offer a few preliminary remarks towards the task of considering Hardy Wilson's interest in Chinese architecture. An interest in Chinese architecture has never been a very important part of... more
In the present paper, we propose to offer a few preliminary remarks towards the task of considering Hardy Wilson's interest in Chinese architecture. An interest in Chinese architecture has never been a very important part of the self-image of modern Australian architects. Even today, when professional interest in undertaking work in Asia is stronger than ever, Hardy Wilson's up-front appreciation of the importance of Chinese architecture stands without parallel. In the standard accounts of modern Australian architecture, ...
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This paper is a study of the work of three contemporary Chinese architects in terms of project constraints, key strategic responses, menus of strategic moves, and collective memory. There are two key aspects of the approach taken here:... more
This paper is a study of the work of three contemporary Chinese architects
in terms of project constraints, key strategic responses, menus of strategic moves, and collective memory. There are two key aspects of
the approach taken here: First, by making use of detailed interviews of principal architects and project architects, we clarified the relationship
between explicit and implicit considerations. A diagram is used to strengthen our grasp of specifics. Second, since there is no specific
inter-generational transmission of ideas and skills between the architects under study, we propose a shift of focus to pre-conditions of such
transmission. Two questions are involved: (1) If inter-generational transmission is not merely a matter of architectural features, concepts,
values, and attitudes towards materials, or design techniques, how would one understand the relationship between a menu of strategic moves and a broader but implicit level of hedged considerations in specific design scenarios? And (2) what can we make of the relationship
between architectural practice and collective memory?
in terms of project constraints, key strategic responses, menus of strategic moves, and collective memory. There are two key aspects of
the approach taken here: First, by making use of detailed interviews of principal architects and project architects, we clarified the relationship
between explicit and implicit considerations. A diagram is used to strengthen our grasp of specifics. Second, since there is no specific
inter-generational transmission of ideas and skills between the architects under study, we propose a shift of focus to pre-conditions of such
transmission. Two questions are involved: (1) If inter-generational transmission is not merely a matter of architectural features, concepts,
values, and attitudes towards materials, or design techniques, how would one understand the relationship between a menu of strategic moves and a broader but implicit level of hedged considerations in specific design scenarios? And (2) what can we make of the relationship
between architectural practice and collective memory?
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This article offers a corrective to oversimplified discussions of contemporary Chinese architecture. In interviews in which both theoretical and practical matters are raised, we often find a tendency to emphasis the autonomy of Chinese... more
This article offers a corrective to oversimplified discussions of contemporary Chinese architecture. In interviews in which both theoretical and practical matters are raised, we often find a tendency to emphasis the autonomy of Chinese architects and a casual consumption of "discourse" that renders inconspicuous discrepancies between conceptual and practical aspects of projects. The four parts of the conversation btween Stanislaus Fung and Li Xinggang recorded here reveal a continuity between thinking and specific projects over Li's career. In many instances, consilient discrepancies in vocabulary between interlocutors reveal tensions that engage the reader in a series of re-orientations in outlook and understanding.
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This text is an edited transcript of a discussion on the development of architectural ideas in the international exchanges that animated the career of LIU Yichun, a founding partner of Atelier Deshaus in Shanghai. Its main focus is the... more
This text is an edited transcript of a discussion on the development of architectural ideas in the international exchanges that animated the career of LIU Yichun, a founding partner of Atelier Deshaus in Shanghai. Its main focus is the relationship between structure, construction and architectural effects. By analysing the specific contexts of architectural discussions, setting aside simplistic understandings of “importing foreign ideas” and
“learning directly [from foreign peers]”, this discussion highlights the complexity of topics and concepts. Three questions are involved: (1) What differences of understanding are involved in German discussions of structure in the 1920s and in the way Kazunari Sakamoto and Liu took up this topic subsequently? (2) What can we make of the relationship between structure, construction and atmosphere in the work of Atelier Deshaus in the last 10 years? And (3) What is involved in articulating a sense of difficulty in understanding discussions between Chinese and Japanese architects and between Chinese and Western architects in the last 15 years?
“learning directly [from foreign peers]”, this discussion highlights the complexity of topics and concepts. Three questions are involved: (1) What differences of understanding are involved in German discussions of structure in the 1920s and in the way Kazunari Sakamoto and Liu took up this topic subsequently? (2) What can we make of the relationship between structure, construction and atmosphere in the work of Atelier Deshaus in the last 10 years? And (3) What is involved in articulating a sense of difficulty in understanding discussions between Chinese and Japanese architects and between Chinese and Western architects in the last 15 years?
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This guide to critical issues in Chinese architectural criticism focuses attention on 10 issues: objective site analysis/designing for dynamic situations, construction process/ad hoc responses to contingencies, materiality/redundant... more
This guide to critical issues in Chinese architectural criticism focuses attention on 10 issues: objective site analysis/designing for dynamic situations, construction process/ad hoc responses to contingencies, materiality/redundant precision and apparent precision, plans as static compositions/plans open to topological adjustments, orthogonal and rectilinear arrangements in plan/aperspectival effects, everyday experiences/counter-experience, Cartesian space and linear temporality/allomnesia, objective space/atmosphere, illustration as literal relationship between text and image/reading images as a process of open-ended discovery.
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This paper has pursued three aims. 1) In order to open the notion of cross-cultural dialogue in the field of Chinese architecture to a more complex understanding,we ramified the idea of dialogue into four concepts:recognition,horizon,... more
This paper has pursued three aims. 1) In order to open the notion of cross-cultural dialogue in the field of Chinese architecture to a more complex understanding,we ramified the idea of dialogue into four concepts:recognition,horizon, pre-understanding and difference.2) In order to ...
Edited transcript of an interview with ZHANG Lei in Nanjing. Zhang is a leading architect in China who has built up a reputation for high-quality construction.
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This is an edited and much abbreviated record of a 9-hour interview of the Chinese architect LIU Jiakun in June 2011.
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A young Chinese architect by the name of Zhao Yang was selected by Kazuyo Sejima as her protégé for a year of collaboration as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative in 2012. A recent Harvard graduate, Zhao avoided the... more
A young Chinese architect by the name of Zhao Yang was selected by Kazuyo Sejima as her protégé for a year of collaboration as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative in 2012. A recent Harvard graduate, Zhao avoided the bright lights of Beijing and Shanghai and took the unusual step of setting up an architectural practice in Dali, Yunnan Province. This essay is the first detailed study of Zhao's recent work. Three projects are analysed and discussed in terms of cultural memory and allomnesia, i.e. attributing to past experience a new content or context.
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This is the first comprehensive bibliography on Atelier Deshaus, a prominent architectural firm in Shanghai. It covers publications by Liu Yichun and Chen Yifeng, the partners of Atelier Deshaus, as well as writings by others on Atelier... more
This is the first comprehensive bibliography on Atelier Deshaus, a prominent architectural firm in Shanghai. It covers publications by Liu Yichun and Chen Yifeng, the partners of Atelier Deshaus, as well as writings by others on Atelier Deshaus. In additions to sources in Chinese, publications in French, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese are also included.
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The early 2000s was a time when internet access became popular in mainland China. Among the bulletin boards frequented by Chinese architects and architectural students, the ABBS Architectural Forum was the most popular. With more than... more
The early 2000s was a time when internet access became popular in mainland China. Among the bulletin boards frequented by Chinese architects and architectural students, the ABBS Architectural Forum was the most popular. With more than half a million registered usernames, ABBS offered participants using monikers a semi-anonymous venue for public discussion and self-publication, at a time when conventional publication was still managed by state bodies and universities. “Uncle Nomad” was a prominent participant in ABBS and became one of the earliest cyber-celebrities in the field of contemporary Chinese architecture. This essay is the first theoretical assessment of Uncle Nomad’s writings as a form of cultural interaction. First, the use of Nomad as a moniker is set in the context of Deleuze’s concept of nomadicism. Second, borrowing from the work of M. M. Bakhtin, the multi-vocal and hybrid nature of the discussions in ABBS is considered as a form of heteroglossia. Third, Nomad’s writings are considered in the light of the ideas articulated by Roland Barthes: the “professor of desire” (as distinct from the purveyor of booklearning) and “writing makes thinking festive.” Finally, the significance of Nomad is discussed in terms of Antonio Gramsci’s idea of counter-hegemonic narrative.
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The primary aim of this paper is to contribute to the task of identifying and discussing the original ideas put forward by Rudolph Schindler in his writings. This paper examines a lecture on decoration given by Schindler in 1916, the... more
The primary aim of this paper is to contribute to the task of identifying and discussing the original ideas put forward by Rudolph Schindler in his writings. This paper examines a lecture on decoration given by Schindler in 1916, the notes for which have survived in an unpublished manuscript (the 'Church School Lectures') in the University of California, Santa Barbara Archive. Containing notes for 12 lectures, this manuscript contains Schindler's most extended and theoretical discussions on architecture. This paper offers the first transcription of these notes, and provides a commentary that contextualises Schindler's thought at this period. Schindler's views represent two important advances on the architectural thinking developed by Adolf Loos and Frank Lloyd Wright: first, articulating a new sense of decoration as material and texture; and secondly, the direct abutment of materials eliminating the need for facings at their connection.
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Abstract The following guide is offered as a reference tool of first recourse for students of Chinese garden history. Chinese gardens did not form a category in traditional Chinese bibliographies, and even twentieth-century bibliographies... more
Abstract The following guide is offered as a reference tool of first recourse for students of Chinese garden history. Chinese gardens did not form a category in traditional Chinese bibliographies, and even twentieth-century bibliographies of Chinese studies and Asian studies do not always feature architecture and gardens as standard categories. Many scholars will appreciate the necessity of searching through a considerable number of categories in most bibliographies in order to gather pertinent sources on Chinese gardens ...
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Page 1. Architectural Theory Review Vol. 2, No. 1,1997 Journal of the Department of Architecture, The University of Sydney Editors Anna Rubbo Adrian Snodgrass Stephen Fridi Layout Diana Lang Printing Aristoc Offset 3 Aristoc Road Glen... more
Page 1. Architectural Theory Review Vol. 2, No. 1,1997 Journal of the Department of Architecture, The University of Sydney Editors Anna Rubbo Adrian Snodgrass Stephen Fridi Layout Diana Lang Printing Aristoc Offset 3 Aristoc Road Glen Waverley, Victoda3150 AUSTRALIA ISSN: 1326-4826 First published, April 1996. Copyright Individual authors The Department of Architecture The University of Sydney NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA Editorial Board ...
Setting The" Record of the Make-do Garden" is an essay by the literatus Huang Zhouxing (1611-1680, courtesy name [zi] Jiuyan, native of Shangyuan, or present-day Nanjing). Zhang Huijian's chronology of Chinese literati of... more
Setting The" Record of the Make-do Garden" is an essay by the literatus Huang Zhouxing (1611-1680, courtesy name [zi] Jiuyan, native of Shangyuan, or present-day Nanjing). Zhang Huijian's chronology of Chinese literati of the Ming and Qing dynasty tellsus that Huang composed this" Record" in 1674
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Article usage statistics combine cumulative total PDF downloads and full-text HTML views from publication date (but no earlier than 25 Jun 2011, launch date of this website) to 12 Feb 2013. Article views are only counted from this site.... more
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