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