The University of Hong Kong
Common Core Course
2011 – 2012
China: Culture, State and Society
China: Culture, State and Society
Chinese House and Garden:
Architecture, Landscape, and Material Culture (CCCH 9001)
Lecture 02 (14/09/2011)
Courtyard
House: Type and Construction
- House Form and its Prototype: Physical or Cultural?
1.
Climate
and Geography
2.
Materials
and Technology
3.
Social
Structure and Defense
4.
Culture
and Religion
- “Jia”家—Home and Family in Courtyard Spaces
1.
Genealogies
and Rituals in Lineage: Center and
Growth
2.
Dwellings
as Social Templates: Organization and Social Order
3.
Spatial
Module and Structure Bays: Kaijian 開間
4.
Courtyard
Spaces,
Progression and the Concept of Jin進
and Kua 跨
5.
Multi-Functional
Courtyards – Privacy and Defense/Climate Moderator/Social and Production
Space/Aesthetics and Symbols /Didactic Narrative
- The Art of Construction: Feng-shui and Mystical Beliefs
1.
Structure
and Materials
i.
Roof,
Columns & Wall, and Base
ii.
Structural Systems:
Column 柱, Beam 樑, Purlin 檁, Rafter 椽 and Wall 牆:
Posts
and Beams Construction 舉架式
/ Columns and Ties
Construction 穿斗式
iii.
Timber, Stone, Brick and Tile:
Material Preparation
2.
Site
and Design Planning
i.
Modular
Bay, Dimensions and Folk Beliefs
ii.
Orientation
坐向,
Openings 開口納氣, and Construction Date Selection 擇日
3.
Construction
Process
i.
Rituals
for Corners 拜神 /拜四角 and Erect Post
立柱
ii.
Installation
of Main Beam 上樑 and Main Entrance Door 立氣口
4.
Summoning
Good Fortune and Avoiding Bad Luck 催吉避凶:
Motifs of Fortune,
Sorcery as Defensive Measures
- Prototypes and Regional Variations
1.
Northern
Courtyard Houses
i.
Beijing
北京
ii.
Shanxi
山西
and Shaanxi 陝西; Cave Dwellings 窰洞
iii.
Shandong
山東,
Henan 河南 and Hebei 河北
2.
Courtyard
Houses in Jiang-nan 江南
i.
Suzhou
蘇州, Hangzhou
杭州 and Shaoxing 紹興
ii.
Huizhou
徽州 and Jiangxi 江西
3.
Courtyard
Houses in Southern China
i.
Southern Fujian 閩南: Quanzhou 泉州and Chaozhou潮州
ii.
Lingnan嶺南: Guangzhou
廣州
and Hong Kong 香港
4.
Hakka
Courtyard and Round Houses
i.
Yongding
, Fujian 褔建永定
ii.
Ganzhou,
Jiangxi 江西贛州
iii.
Meizhou,
Guangdong 廣東梅州
5.
Courtyard
Houses in Other Regions
i.
Sichuan
四川
ii.
Yunnan
雲南 and Lijiang 麗江
iii.
Northeastern
China 東北: Jilin吉林
and Korea 朝鮮
Required Reading List:
Boyd, Andrew. Chinese
Architecture and Town Planning 1500 B.C. – 1911 A.D.. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 1962. (Chapter II and IV)
Knapp, Ronald G.,
Lo, Kai-yin eds. House Home Family: Living and Being Chinese.
Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 2005 (Article
3 and 5)
Recommended Reading List:
Knapp, Ronald G. China’s
Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
Berliner, Nancy. Yin Yu Tang:
The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House. Singapore: Tuttle
Publishing, 2003.
Rapoport, Amos. House Form and
Culture. N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1969.
Blaser, Werner. Courtyard
House in China: Tradition and Present. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 1979.
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. (第三章及第四章)
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. (第四章至第六章)
趙廣超,
《不只中國木建築》,
香港: 三聯出版社,
2000.
陸元鼎,
楊谷生,
《中國民居建築》,
廣州:華南理工大學出版社,
2003.
王其鈞,
《圖說民居》,
北京:中國建築工業出版社,2004.
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