Inheriting the Traditional Charm:A Retrospective on Chinese Landscape Building from the Guilin Practice of 1959-1978
By a deep analysis on the works of different architectural groups in the landscape building practice in Guilin from 1959 to 1978,his paper explores how the composition principles originating from the Beaux-Arts system communicated between Chinese and Western traditions and modernism in architects'knowledge system of that era.It attempts to find asymmetrical,non-monumental local compositional resources from Chinese traditional gardens and dwellings,to explore feasible ideas for the transformation and inheritance of tradition in the new era.It also reveals the different understandings of similar concepts by each architect and their mutual influence in the Guilin practice.
landscape buildingGuilin practiceChinese indigenous compositional resourcestraditional Chinese gardensChinese vernacular architecture
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