LIN Whei-Yin's Thoughts on Architectural Aesthetics:Keywords,Their Origins,and Chinese Stance
Based on the two articles that LIN Whei-Yin published at the age of 28,namely,Some Characteristics of Chinese Architecture and Miscellaneous Notes on Architecture of Suburban Beijing,this paper aims to uncover the key concepts or"keywords"in the thinking of this pioneering Chinese scholar within a cross-cultural context,revealing their connections to the prevailing classicism and romanticism in European and American architectural aesthetics of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Its purpose is threefold:first,to summarize the main contents of LIN's architectural aesthetic thinking;second,to explore how Western architectural aesthetic discourse influenced the development of Chinese architectural aesthetics;and third,to reveal the Chinese stance of LIN's aesthetic thinking as shown in her redefinition and questioning of the concepts or ideas of Vitruvius and John Ruskin,two represen-tative figures of Western architectural aesthetics.
LIN Whei-YinArchitectural aestheticsSome characteristics of Chinese architectureMiscellaneous notes on architecture of suburban BeijingHenry K.MurphyVitruviusJohn Ruskin
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