Handout - Lecture 06

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 06 (02/11/2011)

Courtyard Houses of Huizhou and Jiangnan

1. Huizhou Dwelling 徽州

1.            Huizhou Merchants and the Clan Village 

i.          Geography, Society & Culture

- Location and History of the Clan

- Farmer, Merchant, Scholar and the Neo-Confucian 程朱理學

- Sustaining the Clan family

ii.         Layout and Spaces of the Clan Village

- Function and Fengshui (Hongcun宏村/Chengkan呈坎)

                                            - Spaces of Didactic Narrative 敘事的教化空間 (Xidi西递/Tangyue棠樾)

2.            Building Layout and Components

i.           Prototype and Variations:  O, U, H and 日Shape

ii.          Buildings Layout

- Ground Floor: Gate Hall, Light-well（Si-Shui-Gui-Tang 四水歸堂）, Main Hall

- The Upper Floor: Bed Room and Corridor Gallery 跑馬樓

                        iii.        Building Elements and Decoration

- Step-like Gable Wall 馬頭牆 and Carved Canopy 門罩 /門樓

- Wood Brick and Stone Carving

3.             Family Life in a Huizhou House: Yin Yu Tang 蔭餘堂

4.             Ming and Qing Dynasty House : Cheng Zhi Tang 承志堂

 

2.  Urban Dwelling in Suzhou and Water Town 蘇州

1.         City, Canal and House

2.         Building Layout and Components  

i.          Central Axis:  Gate Hall, Sedan Chair Hall 轎廳, Reception Hall, Main Room 樓廳/女廳, Back Room and Servant Room 披屋/下房

ii.         Other Rooms: Flower Hall 花廳（鴛鴦廳，四面廳，船廳，花籃廳）

Bedroom/Wing Room, Study Room, Alley and Light-well

iii.        Decoration and Interior

- Interior of Main Hall: 船篷軒/菱角軒/弓形軒/海棠軒/鶴胫軒/一支香軒

- Decoration

3.  Houses in other Jiangnan Area

1.          Jiangnan Houses in the Painting of Li Ke-ran 李可染 and Wu Guan-zhong 吳冠中

2.        Hangzhou: Residence of Hu Xue-yan 胡雪岩故居 and Zhejiang Vernacular House

3.             Shaoxing: Xu Wei’s Green Vine Studio 徐渭青藤書屋

4.             Villages and Houses in Nanxijiang 楠溪江Area（ 蒼坡村/岩頭村/芙蓉村）

Reading Materials:

General:

Blaser, Werner, Courtyard House in China: Tradition and Present. Basel: Birkhäuser, c1979.

Boyd, Andrew. Chinese Architecture and Town Planning 1500 B.C. – 1911 A.D.. Chicago: The University

            of Chicago Press, 1962. (Chapter IV)

Knapp, Ronald G.. Chinese Houses: The Architectural Heritage of a Nation. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing,

2005. (Part Two, Page 55-97)

陳從周, 潘洪萱, 路秉傑著. 中國民居. 香港：三聯出版社，1993.

劉致平著. 中国居住建筑简史：城市、住宅、園林.  北京 : 中國建築工業出版社, 1990.

徽州                 張仲一等著. 徽州明代住宅 . 北京: 建築工程出版社, 1957.

樊炎冰主編. 中國徽派建築. 北京 : 中國建築工業出版社, 2002.

東南大學建築系編. 徽州古建築叢書：棠樾. 南京 : 东南大学出版社, 1993.

東南大學建築系編. 徽州古建築叢書：漁梁. 南京 : 东南大学出版社, 1998.

龔愷主編. 徽州古建築叢書：曉起. 南京 : 東南大學出版社, 2001.

龔愷著. 中國古村落: 豸峰村. 石家莊 : 河北敎育出版社, 2003.

蘇州                 Xu, Y. The Chinese city in Space and Time: The Development of Urban Form in Suzhou. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2000.

徐民蘇編. 蘇州民居. 北京 : 中國建築工業出版社, 1991

陣內秀信著，中國の水鄉都市 : 蘇州と周邊の水の文化. 東京 : 鹿島出版會, 1993.

浙江                 陳志華著. 楠溪江中游古村落. 北京: 生活．讀書．新知三．书店, 1999.

中國建築技術發展中心建築歷史硏究所. 浙江民居. 北京 : 中國建築工業出版社, 1984.

漢聲雜誌社編. 楠溪江中游鄉土建築. 1992

Exhibition:         香港藝術館，Lofty Integrity: Donation of Works by Wu Guan-zhong “獨立風骨——吳冠中”