Historical Building Surveying Five Schools Joint Exhibition - Upper Story, Lower Space

Author: Compiler of "Historical Building Survey Five Universities Joint Exhibition"
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Publishing Date: 2006-05-26
Features: As revealed by the book title, this book is compiled from the content of the "Historical Building Survey Five Universities Joint Exhibition," jointly organized by the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University, the School of Architecture at Tianjin University, the School of Archaeology and Museum at Peking University, the School of Architecture at Southeast University, and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University (in the order of their participation in the exhibition preparation) in 2004. This exhibition, entirely featuring historical building surveys and research achievements, is the first of its kind since the founding of the nation. It was initially initiated by the School of Architecture at Tianjin University and the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University. Inheriting the long-standing tradition of regular exchanges between students of the two institutions, they decided to hold a survey results exhibition between the two schools immediately after the survey internship in the fall of 2004, aiming to strengthen the teaching and academic exchange of architectural history and ancient building surveying, enhance mutual understanding, share resources, and achieve common progress. During the preparation of the exhibition, the School of Archaeology at Peking University, the School of Architecture at Southeast University, and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University joined one after another, expanding the participating institutions from two to five, and the exhibition was finally named the "Historical Building Survey Five Universities Joint Exhibition." Among the five universities, four architecture schools have more than half a century of tradition in historical building surveying, and surveying courses have always been compulsory for architecture students in these four schools and other institutions. This exhibition featured 60 display boards, showcasing more than 400 historical building survey drawings drawn by students from the five universities over the years. The drawing techniques and methods, including pencil, ink pen lines, Chinese painting, ink wash rendering, watercolor rendering, computer-aided design, and model making, have made the drawings themselves valuable artifacts. The surveyed objects spanned a millennium, from the Northern Wei, Five Dynasties, Liao, and Song period structures to the Qing Dynasty and Republican era historical sites. The grand and magnificent ones included the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Prayer for Bountiful Harvests, and the Hall of Literary Glory in the Imperial Palace of Beijing, as well as the Ming Changling Temple in Nanjing. The delicate and sentimental ones included numerous scholar's gardens in the Jiangnan region. The exhibition covered village houses, Buddhist temples, grottoes, floating Buddhist stupas, stone beams, and Buddhist scriptures, encompassing a wide range of examples of traditional Chinese architecture in various grades, styles, and uses, displaying a dazzling array of colors and diversity. The surveying efforts of the five universities have nearly covered all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities in China, and they have even traveled across the ocean to reach Africa.