This handbook, representing the collaboration of 40 scholars, provides a multi-faceted exploration of roughly 6,000 years of Chinese architecture, from ancient times to the present.
This volume combines a broad-spectrum approach with a thematic framework for investigating Chinese architecture, integrating previously fragmented topics and combining the scholarship of all major periods of Chinese history. By organizing its approach into five parts, this handbook:
Traces the practices and traditions of ancient China from imperial authority to folk culture Unveils a rich picture of early modern and republican China, revealing that modernization was already beginning to emerge Describes the social, intellectual, ideological, and formal enterprises of socialist architecture Frames a window on a complex and changing contemporary China by focusing on autonomy, state practices, and geopolitics of design, ultimately identifying its still evolving position on the world stage Examines the existing cultural and political theories to highlight potential avenues for future transformations in Chinese architecture that also retain Chinese identity
Providing a pioneering combination of ancient and modern Chinese architecture in one coherent study, this book is a must-read for scholars, students, and educators of Chinese architecture, architectural history and theory, and the architecture of Asia.
Introduction
1. Reassembling for a Chinese Architecture: Notes for a New
Departure PART I: ANCIENT AND DYNASTIC TRADITION State Governance Over
Building and City Planning
2. The Chinese City in the Service of the State
3.
Typical Design Features of Ming Palaces and Altars in Beijing
4. Imperial
Cities: Critical Changes in Urban Paradigm from Sui-Tang to Song
5. Yingzao
Fashi: The Book and Methodical Issues for Studying It Literati Culture and
Social Production
6. Literati Gardens of the Jiangnan Region: Characters and
Mutations
7. Cang Lang Pavilion of Suzhou: Sentiment, Scenery, Aura, and
Meaning
8. Landscape Urbanism: UrbanRural Relations in Hangzhou of Southern
Song China
9. Confucian Authority: Analysis of School-Temples at Imperial
Academy of Beijing Folk Culture and Vernacular Practice
10. Fengshui Practice
and Urban Development in Ancient China: An Outline
11. Yang Yunsong and the
Jiangxi School of Fengshui Practice in Southern China
12. Carpentry In
Vernacular Building Practice: The Masters Way
13. Vernacular Architecture:
Themes and Variations Over a Large Country. PART II: REPUBLICAN AND EARLY
MODERN TRANSFORMATION The Arrival of Architecture: Profession, Knowledge,
and Education
14. Emergence of Architecture: In the Reform Years of Late
Qing Dynasty
15. The Architect as a Profession in Republican China: Rising
Under the State Modern Building Practice: Style and Technology
16. Building
Technology in Republican China and Its Historical Legacies
17. Chinese
Classical Revival: Nanjing, Capital of Republican China (1910s40s) Modern
City Construction and Spatial Formation
18. From Hankou Town to Greater
Wuhan: Urban Spatial Organizations in Early Modern China
19. Modern
Edutainment Space: Public Parks in Early Twentieth-Century China PART III:
SOCIALIST-MAOIST MODERNIZATION Spatial Construction and City Planning Under
Socialist Ideology
20. Socialist Urban Planning in Maos China (19491976) 21
Danwei and Socialist Urbanism Practice, Education, and Knowledge Production
22. The Design Institute in Maos China (1950s70s)
23. Architectural
Education in China (1950s1980s): Constructing and Deconstructing
24.
Theories of Spatial Composition: Design Knowledge in China up to the 1980s
25. Liang and Liu: Strategies for Writing an Architectural History in the
1950s Architecture in Socialist China: Nationalism and Modernism
26. National
Style: Thinking and Building for a New Republic in Beijing (19491959)
27.
Towards a Regional Modernism in Chinese Architecture (1930s70s)
28. For a
Modernism: Huang and Feng at Shanghais Tongji Architectural Programme
29.
Building Canton Fair: Towards a Regional Modernism in Southern China
(1950s1980s) PART IV: CONTEMPORARY HISTORIES: CHINA IN THE WORLD Architects
and the Issue of Autonomy
30. Critical Pragmatism: Architects as Refl exive
Individuals in Contemporary China
31. Architects as Authoring Individuals: Y.
H. Chang, Liu Jiakun, and Wang Shu State Design Institutes in the Reform Era
32. From Mao to Market: Evolution of the State Design Institutes in China
33.
The Chinese Design Institute: A Critique of Critical Thinking CBDs: Global
Spectacles
34. Objects in Territories Along Avenues: Spatial Planning in
Beijing and Shanghai
35. Iconic Architecture in China (2000s): Historical
Reading or Marxist Critique
36. UrbanRural Development in China and a Way
Forward With New Urbanization Geopolitical Differentiations
37. Chinese
Cultural Renaissance and a Chinese Neoclassicism: Taiwan (1960s80s)
38.
Architects as Reflexive Individuals: Taiwan and Hong Kong Since the 1950s
PART V: THEORIZATION Culture and Epistemology
39. Ten Lamps of Architecture
in Chinese Culture
40. Deriving Architectural Theory From Chinese Philosophy:
ThinkingWith Xunzi
41. Figuration: Writing, Memory, and Cities in Chinese
Culture
42. Signs of Empire: Scale and Statehood in Chinese Culture Political
Ethics
43. The State Function of Architecture
44. Political Space and Moral
Statehood Methodology
45. Studies on Architecture of Ancient China: As in
Part I
46. Perspectives on Architecture of (Modern) China: As in Parts IIV
and Part I Appendix Timeline: Chinese History
Jianfei Zhu is Professor of East Asian Architecture at Newcastle University UK, author of Chinese Spatial Strategies (2004) and Architecture of Modern China (2009) with Routledge, as well as Forms and Politics (2018) and works on space, power, visuality, and geopolitics with a Chinese focus.
Chen Wei is Professor, Director, History and Theory Research Institute, Southeast University China, eminent historian and architect on literati gardens and author of Private Gardens (1999), Collected Works of Chen Wei (2015), Ornament of Jiangnan (2016), Walking Along the Grand Canal (2 vols, 2013) in Chinese.
Li Hua, PhD (AA), Professor, Deputy Director, History and Theory Research Institute, Southeast University, is author of Composition and Regularisation of Architectural Production in Contemporary China (2010) and other papers in Chinas top journal Jianzhu Xuebao, and editor-in-chief of bilingual AS series on architectural theory.
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