Handout - Lecture 04

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 04 (12/10/2011)

Courtyard Houses in Southern China

1. Lingnan Dwellings 嶺南民居

1.         Traditional Houses in Guangzhou and Southern Guangdong 廣府民居

i.          Prototype: Three Modular Bays and Two Corridors   三間兩廊

ii.         Development and Grid-like Village Layout 梳式布局 

iii.        Variation: Xi-Guan Houses 西關大屋 and Bamboo Barrel Houses 竹筒屋

iv.        Lou Kau Mansion 盧家大屋 and Mandarin’s House鄭家大屋 in Macau

2.         Lingnan Houses and Hakka Walled Villages in Hong Kong and Shenzhen

i.          Lingnan Style Houses: Tai Fu Tai, San Tin 新田大夫第

ii.         Hakka Walled Villages 圍村and Walled Houses 圍屋

- Kat Hing Wai, Kam Tim 錦田吉慶圍

-Tsang Tai Uk, Sha Tin 沙田曾大屋

-Hehu-xinju,Longgang 龍崗鶴湖新居;Dawan-shiju, Pingshan 坪山大萬世居 

- Sam Tung Uk, Tsuen Wan 荃灣三棟屋

 3.        Diao-Lou: Tower Dwellings in Kaiping and Taishan 開平台山碉樓

i.          Colonial Style and Oversea Chinese: Symbol of Wealth and Defense Measure

ii.         Layout, Components and Motifs

Lecture 04 – Courtyard Houses in Southern China (12/10/2011)

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

LECTURE 06 – Courtyard Houses of Huizhou and Jiangnan China (02/11/2011)

Handout - Lecture 07

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 07 (09/11/2011)

Nature and Landscape: Painting and the Design of Garden

1. Man and Nature

1.      Gardens and Parks in the World Perspective

2.      Daoism and Nature as Beauty:

Lao-zi 老子, Zhuang-zi 莊子and Confucious 孔子

3.      From Nature to Artificial Landscape:                         

i. Follow the Nature 源於自然 法於自然

ii.       Representation of Nature and Framing the Nature

iii.        Beyond Square and Circle -asymmetry, irregularity, curvilinear

Lecture 07 - Nature and Landscape: Painting and the Design of Garden (09/11/2011)

Handout - Lecture 08

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 08 (16/11/2011)

Garden, City and Landscape: the 16^th and 17^th Century Suzhou

A.     City and Garden

1.         The Functions of Garden and Garden in a House

2.         Four Famed Suzhou Gardens 蘇州四大名園

i.          The Master of Nets Garden 網師園 (Song 宋1174-)

-           a pocket garden combined with residence

ii.         The Lion Grove Garden 獅子林 (Yuan 元1342-)

-           an originally temple garden conform with literati’s and merchant’s interest

iii.        The Humble Administrator Garden 拙政園 (Ming 明1510-)

-           a large scale water scenery garden designed by literati (Wen Zheng-Ming 文徵明)

iv.        The Lingering Garden 留園 (Ming 明1593-)

-                 a comprehensive garden famous for rock and water

v.         Others: Cang-Lang Pavilion, Suzhou 蘇州滄浪亭 (Song宋 1045-)

-           a small shrine and public garden