The University
of Hong Kong
Common Core Course 2011 – 2012
China: Culture, State and Society
Chinese House and
Garden:
Architecture,
Landscape, and Material Culture (CCCH 9001)
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Lecture Time: First semester (Wednesday 15:00 – 17:00)
Course Description
By looking into the physical significance of Chinese
architecture, cities, and landscapes, the course introduces theories and
principles of Chinese houses and gardens. Through the study of Chinese houses
and their settings in a city, it brings out the daily life and social fabric
for a Chinese man under the Confucian influence. Through the study of Chinese Gardens and the literati ideas behind
the making of garden, landscape and painting, it introduces the artistic
profile for a Chinese intellectual under the influence of Daoism.
The course investigates how geography, society and
economy, as well as aesthetic and ideology shape the traditional physical
environment in China.
It deals with explorations of form and space, technology and material, as well
as the ways in which these architectural attributes affect our life patterns
and values in a traditional society. The course particularly addresses how the
culture profile was manifested in the architecture and urban spaces during the
late Ming, - an era of unique aesthetic orientation cultivated from distinct
stage of social and economic development in Chinese history.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand how the physical pattern demonstrated in
designing Chinese architecture and landscape are related to their thoughts,
values, and their way of life in the culture context.
2. Apply the knowledge on the ways in which traditional
buildings and cities respond to and shape cultural values and physical forms in
the modern world.
3. Extend the knowledge learned in
Chinese built forms and landscape to the practice of social and physical
sustainability in designs for contemporary society.
4. Demonstrate how Chinese cities, architecture and
landscape are transformed in time, influenced through changes of values and
technology introduced.
Course
Outline
There are total nine lectures for the course and two scheduled field trip. The courses
can be organized into four
groups of modular themes:
a.
Introduction and Summary:
Origin, Meaning and the Modern Implication
(week 1, 8 and 12)
b.
Confucianism
and Houses (week 2, 3,
5 and 7);
c.
Landscape, Garden and Material Culture
week 9 and 10)
d.
Field Trip (week
4 and 11)
Tutorial sessions and field visit, as well as reading, essay and report
make an integral part of the course. The lecture topics and its
schedule of the course include the following:
Date Topics of Teaching
and Learning
1. September 07 Origins and
Principles of Chinese Dwelling and Landscape
2. September 14
Courtyard House: Type and Construction
3. September 21 Courtyard Houses in Beijing
and Northern China
4.
September 28 Field Trip I: Houses
and Village in Hong Kong (October 2)
5. October 12
Courtyard
Houses of Hakka and Southern China
6. October 19
Reading Week: Hand-in Essay and Project Topic
7. October
26 Guest Lecture: Social and Philosophical
Meaning of
Chinese Courtyard House and Garden, by
Prof. David PY Lung
8. November 02 Courtyard Houses of Huizhou and Jiangnan
9. November 09 Nature
and Landscape: Painting and the Design of Garden
10. November 16 Garden,
Interior and Furniture: the Literati of 16th Century Suzhou
11.
November 23 Field Trip II: Gardens in Southern
China (November19 or 26)
12. November 30 Courtyard and Beyond：
Chinese House
and Garden in the Modern World
Study Load
Activities
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Number of hours
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Lectures
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22
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Tutorials
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10
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Fieldtrip / Visits
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10
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Reading
/ Self-study
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58
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Assessment: Essay / Report Writing
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30
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Assessment: Presentation (including preparation)
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20
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Total:
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150
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Assessment:
·
100% coursework
Assessment Tasks
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Weighting
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1. Quizzes
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20
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2. Class Participation and Field Trip
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30
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3. Project
Presentation
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20
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4. Final Report
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30
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Required Reading
Knapp, Ronald G. Chinese Houses: The
Architectural Heritage of a Nation. Singapore: Tuttle Publication,
2005
Knapp, Ronald G., Lo, Kai-yin eds. House Home Family: Living
and Being Chinese. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005
Han, Pao-Teh.
The Story of Chinese Landscape Design: External Forms and Internal
Visions. Taipei:
Youth Cultural Enterprise Co., 1992.
Boyd Andrew.
Chinese Architecture and Town Planning: 1500 B.C. – 1911 A.D.. London: Alec Tiranti, 1962.
Recommended Reading
Wu, Nelson I (Wu No-sun). Chinese and Indian Architecture: The City
of Man, the Mountain of God,
and the Realm of the Immortals. New
York: George Brasiller, 1963.
Knapp, Ronald G. China’s Living Houses: Folk
Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
Knapp, Ronald G.
China’s Vernacular Architecture: House Form and Culture. Honolulu: University
of Hawaii Press, 1989.
Lo, Kai-yin, Ho Puay-peng. eds. Living Heritage:
Vernacular Environment in China.
Hong Kong: Yungmingtang, 1999.
Liang, Sicheng.
A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture: A Study of the
Development of its Structural System and the Evolution of its Types. Cambridge, Mass: MIT
Press, 1984.
Chinese Academy of Architecture: Classical
Chinese Architecture. Hong Kong: Joint
Publ.
Co.,
1986.
Keswick, Maggie:
The Chinese
Garden: History, Art
& Architecture. London:
Academy Editions, 1986.
Chang, Chao-Kang:
Blaser, Werner: China: Tao in Architecture.
Basel, Boston: Birkhauster, 1987.
Sickman, Laurence, Soper, Alexander. eds. The Art and Architecture of China. New York:
Penguin Books, 1971.
Stierlin, Henri;
Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, Michèle. eds. Architecture of the World: China. Germany: Benedikt Taschen, 1981.
Mario, Bussagli. Oriental
Architecture, Vol. 2, China,
Korea and Japan. New
York: Electa / Rizzoli, 1989.
Liu, Laurence. Chinese Architecture. London:
Academy Editions, 1989.
Steinhardt, Nancy. Chinese Traditional
Architecture. New
York: China Institute in America, 1984.
中國建築史編寫組，《中國建築史》，北京：中國建築工業出版社，1982
梁思成，《圖像中國建築史》，香港：三聯出版社， 2001
梁思成，《拙匠隨筆》，北京：中國建築工業出版社，1996
劉敦楨，《中國古代建築史》，北京：中國建築工業出版社，1984
劉敦楨，《蘇州古典園林》，北京：中國建築工業出版社，1979
李允鉌，《華夏意匠》，香港：廣角鏡出版社， 1982
漢寶德，《中國建築與文化》 ，台北：聯經書版社， 2004
漢寶德，《斗栱的起源與發展》，台北：境與象出版社
1982
程萬里，《中國傳統建築》，北京：中國建築工業出版社/香港： 萬里書店，1991
龍炳頤，《香港古今建築》，香港：三聯出版社，1992
陳從周，潘洪萱，路秉傑，《中國民居》，香港：三聯出版社， 1993
趙廣超，《不只中國木建築》，香港：三聯出版社， 2000
趙廣超，《大紫禁城》，香港：三聯出版社， 2005
Grade Descriptors:
T.B.A.
Course Co-ordinator:
Weijen Wang, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture
Tel: 2548 1274
Email: wjwang@hku.hk
Teacher(s):
Weijen
Wang, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture
Tel: 2548 1274 Email: wjwang@hku.hk
D.P.Y.
Lung, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture
Tel: 2859 2147 Email: dpylung@hku.hk
Teaching Assistant(s):
Mr.
Lie Kin Hang, Henry Tel: 6020 7563 Email: ccch_9001@yahoo.com.hk
Ms.
Li Ying Chun, Sophia Tel: 6352 0817 Email: leeyingchun@gmail.com
Ms.
Xie Jing, Jing Tel: 5191 0108 Email: jingx_hk@yahoo.com.hk
Mr. Xu Zhu, Andrew Tel:
6647 9262 Email:
xz.andrew@gmail.com
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