This is probably the smallest Chinese courtyard I have ever seen, but it still maintains a very dignified and cultural etiquette space.
The other system, which actually has a strong Taoist background, is Chinese gardens.
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What are Chinese cities? From a cultural point of view, Hangzhou is the most typical model.
▲ the layout of Beijing quadrangles is from the history of ancient Chinese architecture by liudunzhen.
In China, according to the modern or western academic, the concept of Chinese architectural history is reshaped.
In the center of the city is a lake, about half of the content is landscape, half of the content is house.
The emergence of such a concept requires the involvement of architectural history research within the academic category.
Oral ｜ Wang Shu finishing ｜ Gao Yiding compared with the development of Western architecture, what are the characteristics of Chinese traditional architecture? Each of us lives in the natural development and evolution of Chinese architecture, but most people do not have the concept of architectural history, nor do they realize what stage of architectural history they are in, how the writing of Chinese architectural history changes in different dynasties, and so on.
One kind of courtyard is formed under the strong Confucian ritual background.
Today, when you look at Chinese architecture after the Song Dynasty, especially the Ming and Qing Dynasties, you will find that there are basically two kinds of courtyards.
This is a system that can enlighten the future.
The pattern of the garden is free and asymmetric.
It is also a yard with mountains and water inside, forming a small natural world, like landscape painting.
The whole city is overlooking.
In fact, it gives you a cultural meaning.
The most durable material in the building is stone.
However, Chinese architecture is a group of buildings with courtyard as the basic framework.
I call it “half landscape and half city”.
Of course, many parts of the world actually have systems based on wood structures.
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It expresses the architecture as a very prominent image.
That picture is very strange.
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It has a central axis, different levels, primary and secondary, symmetrical left and right, sitting in the north and facing the south, etc.
Liangsicheng, a famous architect, is one of the pioneers, which can be said to be the most important figure.
Then we can also use such a basic discourse logic to talk about this question: what are the characteristics of Chinese architecture compared with western architecture? ▲ the first basic feature of Liang Sicheng (1901-1972) is its special plane layout.
Now when we look at a building, everyone will say how about its shape, facade and plane.
This is a very special place in Chinese architecture.
These are actually typical Western architectural concepts.
▲ the atlas of West Lake by Li Song of Song Dynasty, the third basic feature of Shanghai Museum collection, I call it a natural and real construction system.
Liangsicheng first studied the history of Chinese architecture, he took the history of Western architecture in Europe as a reference.
How small is the yard? It is only about three meters from the gate to the main house.
What are the characteristics of China? What is special is that the wood structure system in China is not a simple system.
▲ in the middle hall of a traditional Chinese village, the second basic feature of Chinese architecture in the stills of the film Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon is the beauty of the environment.
It is such a shallow yard.
When it comes to the state of architecture in the city, I often use a picture of the West Lake by Li Song, a famous landscape painter in the Song Dynasty.
Then, from the door of the main room to the nave and couplets hanging in the main room, it is about three meters deep.
The western classical memorial architecture is different.
One special thing about Chinese architecture is that it likes to use natural materials.
In this depth, there can be eight immortals table or two Taishi chairs.
The special layout of these two courtyards is unique in the world.
Such an aesthetic concept may have taken shape as early as the five dynasties or the late Tang Dynasty.
In typical Chinese houses, there will be such spaces.
linhuiyin said, there is a great opportunity for Chinese architecture to step directly into the modern concept of the West.
I remember once I visited a small village called Hejia village near Hangzhou and visited a small yard.
There are a series of spaces in Chinese buildings, from your birth, growth, marriage, birth to death.
Hangzhou, where I live, is particularly typical.
It is fabricated and made of relatively small wood.
Most of the buildings are invisible and are all covered in trees.
Is it beautiful? This is the city of China.
Looking at Chinese landscape paintings, including in the real environment, as long as there are traditional buildings, they form a particularly good relationship with the surrounding landscape trees, which is really like painting.
It is not discussed as a single building.
for example, the siheyuan and the Forbidden City in Beijing are very typical, and all the temples are in this pattern.
▲ art garden, the representative of small gardens in Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty, caixiaochuan / photo when we have such a special plane layout, we have solved some basic problems in the world.
It will not only tell you where you come from, but also clearly tell you where you will go in the future.
In Chinese architecture, stone is not the main material, but actually wood.
All the buildings are shrouded in nature and have a relationship with the natural landscape and trees.
This is a very advanced concept..
However, this modern transformation will not be completed automatically and needs a new exploration.
I often do research in urban and rural areas of China.
If the structure is taken as the main body, the main structure of Chinese architecture is wood, thus forming a special wood based system.
The only buildings that can be seen clearly are probably Leifeng Tower and Baoju tower, as well as several larger temples and the roofs of city towers.
The Chinese have formed an elastic system with all natural materials that can last for thousands of years.
