"Composition" and regularisation of architectural production in contemporary China |
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Authors: | Hua LI |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Architecture, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, 35430, Turkey |
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Abstract: | The purpose of this paper is to explore how the “Beaux-Arts” “composition” sustained the constitution of design principles
for architectural production in China in the last two decades of the twentieth century. “Composition”, a key technique of
the “Beaux-Arts” system, is not a simple act of “putting elements together” into a unified whole, but also relates to an array
of different “constructions” of architectural knowledge which regulate and sustain the act of design. Through analysing the
structure of three “textbooks” published in the early 1980s, this paper examines three aspects of the “constructions”: the
setting up of the principles for governing architectural forms, regularisation of design methods and approaches for architectural
practice, and the construction of a “tradition” for the expression of “Chineseness”. |
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