Architecture

This course examines the architecture of East Asia from prehistory to the early modern period. In addition to monumental buildings such as temples and palaces, the examples range from urban planning and garden design to peasant dwellings and nomadic structures. A number of architectural traditions are covered, including Bhutanese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uyghur. Among the socio-cultural factors that have shaped East Asia’s built environments, it looks at Buddhism and the literati as influences traversing geopolitical borders, as well as vernacular development of structural systems, spatial geometries, and material utilization based on the land, climate, and other natural conditions.

This course introduces Greek art and architecture in the period 2500-50 BC. In the context of abroad chronological survey, the focus is on three main themes: the relationship between Greek art and society; addressing current problems in Greek art history, reception of Greek art and contemporary society; and extensive training in visual analysis and the different lenses to look at Greek art. Through images, videos, and 3D models, but also through museum visits to the British Museum, students engage in detailed and in-depth object analyses and discussions.

Architectural art is the epitome and crystallization of society, history, science and technology, ideology, and culture. Through in-depth reading of brilliant classic architectural works, we travel the history, stroll through time and space, wander through thoughts, and explore the aesthetic height of vision and spirit. At the same time, students are guided to grasp the aesthetic methods of architectural space art, learn to appreciate the unique artistic style and cultural connotation of architecture in different periods, and further explore the internal mechanism and regularity of architectural beauty. Cultivate a comprehensive vision, as well as learn from one another, independent aesthetic analysis ability.

Architectural art is different from painting, sculpture and other art categories. It not only involves external modeling issues, but more importantly lies in the artistic quality and cultural value of the internal space defined by the shape. Space is the protagonist of architecture, and understanding inner and outside space is a key issue in understanding architecture. This course is mainly based on the perspective of the space of architectures to think about and evaluate architecture, and to select classic cases, history and history in connection with the era background, political economy, ideology, science and technology, space concepts, artistic trends, aesthetic styles, etc. of the different stages of Western social development; then to form a general understanding, with both the span of historical time and space and the breadth of architectural types.

The course provides a study of architectural culture, which is one of the traditional Chinese cultures. Topics include basic theories, general concepts, and main contents of Chinese traditional architectural culture; its historical development process, achievements, and social and cultural significance; current situation of preservation and protection of Chinese traditional buildings; practical value and influence of traditional architectural culture; language and cultural knowledge related to traditional architectural culture.

As one of fundamental courses of Interior Architecture Design majors, this course provides the theoretical background of fundamental CAD systems and digital design technologies in order that students can reach the next phase of advanced design computing studies and practices. This includes architectural planning, design, drafting procedures, practices, symbols and preparation of advanced working drawings for architectural and interior design. Moreover, this course tackles how digital design and design computing technologies interact with design per se using quantitative and scientific processes, so that students can comprehend the main features of digital design.