D015: On the Reception of Foreign Landscape Elements in Asia, with A Focus on Garden-Architecture Relationship

Organizer(s)

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  Yi Zhou

  Beijing University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, China (People's Republic)

Chair(s)

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  Zhu Xu

  University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Paper Presenter(s)

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  Yi Zhou

  Beijing University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, China (People's Republic)
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  Mengyixin Li

  The Faculty of Landscape, , Atelier XHSCAPE Shanghai Landscape Architects; Chinese-German Center of Constructional Culture (Chinesisch-Deutsches Austauschzenturm für Baukultur)
  Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China
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  Zhu Xu

  University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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  Shigeo Kawamoto

  Kindai University; Kyoto Women’s University, Japan

Discussant(s)

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  Jianwei Zhang

  School of Archaeology & Museology
  School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University;
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  Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto

  Harvard University, United States

Session Abstract: During cultural interactions among Asian countries, the collision between foreign landscape culture and a country’s indigenous tradition of garden making was never new. When absorbing a foreign landscape element into their own design, many architects and landscape designers in history and modern times bear similar reflections of passing down the genes of their own landscape cultures. This session looks into the reception of foreign landscape elements in Asian countries with a focus on the garden-architecture relationship, which is arguably the most critical factor in characterizing the spatial composition of Asian countries’ landscape cultures.

In China, current debates on the role of traditional gardens in urban-scale modern landscape designs and practices of integrating Shan-shui (mountains and waters) tradition into the modern landscape are significantly shaping China’s built environment as well as the direction of its architectural theories. India’s Buddhist monastic landscape and the Pure Land imagery first received full developments in China, and eventually found a special position in Japan with completely modified contours. Chinese garden palaces of the Tang Dynasty exerted significant influences on the formation of Japanese shinden-style garden residence. Yet after centuries of cultural reflection and negotiation, Japan developed shoin-style after shinden-style residences with its own specialty, which allowed Japanese architects to contribute their own “Japan-ness” to the modernist architectural ideas across the world. The Japanese Kare-sansui, traditionally considered a Japanese artistic representation of the Zen doctrines received from Song-Yuan China, could also be traced back to the ceremonial courtyards in Nara-Heian imperial palaces.

Presentations:

• How Sitting Customs Influenced the Development of the Chinese Song-Yuan Garden Houses vis-a-vis the Japanese Shoin-Style Residences
  

  Paper Presenter: Yi Zhou – Beijing University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
• The Juxtaposition of Landscape Ideal and Complex Reality of Cities: The Chinese Conception of Shan-shui City
  

  Paper Presenter: Mengyixin Li – Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
• Buddhist Monastic Landscapes in Early Medieval China: Indian Sources and Their Transcultural Adaptations
  

  Paper Presenter: Zhu Xu – University of Hong Kong
• The Ceremonial Courtyard and Kare-sansui
  

  Paper Presenter: Shigeo Kawamoto – Kindai University; Kyoto Women’s University