Chinese Traditional House Research in the Past 70 YearsA Review Centered on Architectural Journal,1954-2024
Based on the publications of Architectural Journal,this paper reviews the history of research on Chinese traditional houses over the past 70 years and the interaction with architectural design.It describes the entire process of development from restricted investigation of vernacular architecture of 1954-1978 to nation-wide survey to fill up vacancies of 1979-1989,and then writing of history Chinese vernacular architecture made progresses,and the cultural and theoretical interpretations were popular with conservation and regeneration of vernacular heritages as the mainstream of practices between 1990 and 2008,culminated in systemization of 2009-2024,when urban regeneration practices and rural construction become more diversified with a bigger gap between academic research and design practice.
investigation and research on Chinese traditional housesacademic historyconservation and regenerationurban regenerationrural construction