The Return of the Literati
If the archetypal persons for the
architect in the West are the hero, the saint, the avant-garde, and the expert,
the archetypal person for the architect in China would be the literati. Part
official, part scholar, part architect, part poet, literati were intellectual
and social actors in gardens, always already considering a myriad of things
(ten thousand things, or wanwu)
through their propensities. What would the architect and architecture look like
in this scene? How could this help us re-calibrate architectural education and
practice so that they work to advance, and not to undermine, the viability of
the planet as a life sustaining system?
The Return of the Literati
Human Agency in the Asian City
On the Influences of Chinese Architecture in the World
Architecture and Asian Thought
The Body and Modernity in China
Agro-Culture
Mimesis and Figuration
Presentations
Forthcoming conference with ARCASIA.Collaborations
Atelier Deshaus
School of Architecture, China Academy of Fine Art, Hangzhou