ARC
4303B
Aspects of Asian architecture
Spring 2002–03
Analyzing an extant building
week 08, 2003.02.27
Assignment 5 in
Charting parametric change over time
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Chan Tak Yan
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Li Tsz Kai, Ken (PDF, 140 KB)
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Mui Cheuk Chi, Joyce (PDF, 4.1 MB)
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To Sin Yeung: version 1 (PDF, 1.5 MB), version 2 (PDF, 1.5 MB)
Dule si shanmen (984)
We are interested in how extant buildings of the Tang, Song, and Yuan are related both to each other and to the Yingzao fashi. Our next step in assembling this picture is to construct drawings of buildings. We do not have direct access to the buildings, so we need to rely on Chen’s (1992) field measurements.
Here are a plan and two sections of Dule si shanmen (984). What information do they show? Is that information reliable? Is it used correctly in the drawings? Is there (new) useful information that can be derived from the drawings? Can anything else be added to the drawings?
Assignment 6 out
Construct a plan and two sections of one of the four extant buildings listed below. The idea is to understand as much as possible of each building while using only the most reliable information.
• Use only measurements written in numbers. Do not scale off drawings.
• Use only measurements taken directly from a component (e.g., column height). Do not use derived measurements (e.g., cejiao); recalculate them.
• Consult drawings to see how components are combined. Do not take measurements by scaling off a drawing.
• In your drawings, distinguish measurements obtained from primary sources and those you derive yourself by manipulating the primary measurements.
The four buildings are listed below. For the information closest to the buildings (i.e., least interpreted), see the field report cited and Chen (1992). For general information, including drawings, on many (not all) buildings, see Liang (1984) and Zhang (1985). For a thorough bibliography, see Steinhardt (1984a, 1997).
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782. Nanchan si da dian. Qi (1980), Steinhardt (1984b).
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1008. Yongshou si yuhua gong. Mo (1945).
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1125. Shaolin si chuzu an da dian. Qi (1979).
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1294. Yongle gong wuji men (longhu dian). Du (1963), Steinhardt (1984c).
Next week
Field trip to Chi Lin Nunnery and Wong Tai Sin Temple (to be confirmed). Consultations (by appointment).
References
Chen Mingda. 1992. Tang Song mu jiegou jianzhu shice jilu biao [Field measurements of Tang and Song wood frame buildings]. In Jianzhu lishi yanjiu [Studies in architectural history], edited by He Yeju, 231–261. Beijing: Zhongguo jianzhu gongye.
Du Xianzhou. 1963. Yongle gong de jianzhu. Wenwu 1963 (8): 3–17.
Liang Sicheng. 1982. Baodi xian Guangji si san dashi dian. In Liang Sicheng wenji, 117–165. Beijing: Zhongguo jianzhu gongye chubanshe.
———. 1982. Ji xian Dule si guanyin ge shanmen kao [Study of the Guanyin pavilion and gate building of Dule si in Ji xian]. In Liang Sicheng wen ji, 39–116. Beijing: Zhongguo jianzhu gongye chubanshe.
Liang Ssu-ch’eng [= Liang Sicheng]. 1984. A pictorial history of Chinese architecture: a study of the development of its structural system and the evolution of its types. Edited by W. Fairbank. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Mo Zongjiang. 1945. Shanxi Yuci Yongshou si yuhua gong [Yuhua gong of Yongshou si, Yuci, Shanxi]. Zhongguo yingzao xueshe huikan, Bulletin of the Society for the research in Chinese architecture 7 (2): 1–24.
Qi Yingtao. 1979. Dui Shaolin si chuzu an da dian de chubu fenxi. Keji shi wenji 2: 61–70.
Qi Yingtao and Chai Zejun. 1980. Nanchan si da dian xiufu. Wenwu 1980 (11): 61–75.
Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman. 1984a. Chinese traditional architecture. New York: China Institute in America.
———. 1984b. Nanchan si main hall. In Chinese traditional architecture, edited by N. S. Steinhardt, 101–108. New York: China Institute in America.
———. 1984c. The Yuan dynasty main hall: Guangsheng si lower monastery and Yongle gong. In Chinese traditional architecture, edited by N. S. Steinhardt, 127–128. New York: China Institute in America.
———. 1997. Liao architecture. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Zhongguo kexue yuan ziran kexue shi yanjiusuo. 1985. Zhongguo gudai jianzhu jishu shi [A history of Chinese building technology]. Beijing: Kexue chubanshe.