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Description Introduction to the study of Chinese gardens focussing on key documents and some extant gardens. Lecture topics include: key notions of design, concepts of space/time, role of designers and visitors, movement and the experience of landscape, the relationship between pictorial space, garden design and literary tradition, and imaginary gardens. There are two key concerns: (1) cross-cultural relevance (what can the study of Chinese gardens offer to a cross-cultural dialogue in architecture and landscape architecture?) and (2) interdisciplinary perspective (how is the study of Chinese gardens related to recent work in some other fields such as geography, cultural studies, philosophy and the visual arts?). The main assignment is an exercise in spatial composition developed from a 17th-century Chinese handscroll.
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