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)
Lecture 01 (07/09/2011)
Origins
and Principles of Chinese Dwelling and Landscape
- Introduction
1.
Man,
Nature
and Physical
Environment
2.
Culture and Geography
in
Early Dwellings:
i.
Material Culture
developed along Yellow River
ii.
Material Culture
developed along Yangtze River
3.
Culture Formation in
Early History
- Concept and Principles
1.
Rituals
(Li) 禮 and Humaneness 仁: Social Orders and the Influence of
Confucianism
i.
Rites of Zhou 周禮: Orders in Social Relationship
reflected in Kao-gong-ji 考工記 for Layout of
City and Dwellings
ii.
From Oneself to
Family, City, State and the Universe 修身齊家治國平天下
iii.
Axis,
Symmetry, Enclosure, Hierarchy and Sequence in Spatial Layout
2.
Yin-yang
陰陽 and Feng-shui 風水: Nature and the Influence of Daoism
i.
Yin-yang
陰陽, Five
Elements
五行 and Seasonal
Division Points 節氣
ii.
Feng-shui
風水: Site and Environment
iii.
Response
to Nature: Harmony of Man and Natural Environment 天人合一
3.
Technology,
Materials and Craftsmanship
i.
Material and Natural Resources: Timber, Mud and Stone
ii.
Technology: Methods and Cultural Practice in
Construction
iii.
Culture and
Material: Stone and Wood
- Chinese House and Garden
1.
Elements
and Systems of Chinese Houses
i.
Roof,
Columns/Wall
and Base
ii.
Spatial
and Structural Modules (Kaijian) 開間
iii.
Courtyard 合院 and Spatial Sequence
(Jin) 進
2.
Concepts
and Characteristics of Chinese
Gardens
i.
Landscape and
Painting
ii.
Literati’s
Gardens
iii.
Royal Garden and Regional Landscape
Required
Reading List:
Boyd, Andrew. Chinese
Architecture and Town Planning 1500 B.C. – 1911 A.D.. Chicago:
The University of
Chicago Press, 1962.
(Chapter I and II)
Knapp, Ronald G.. Chinese
Houses: The Architectural Heritage of a Nation. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing,
2005. (Part One)
Recommended
Reading List:
Soper, Alexander. The Art and
Architecture of China.
Britain:
Penguin Books Ltd., 1956. (Part Two)
Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman. Chinese
Traditional Architecture. New York: China
Institute in America,
1984. (Chapter I:
Survey by Fu Xinian)
程萬里,《中國傳統建築》,
香港:香港萬里書店, 中國建築工業出版社,
1991. (第一章及第二章)
李允鉌,《
華夏意匠 – 中國古典建築設計原理分析》,
香港: 廣角鏡出版社,1982. (第一章至第三章)
《
中國地域文化大系》,
香港: 商務印書館, 1998.
王其亨,《
風水理論研究》,
天津: 天津大學出版社, 1992.
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