TY - BOOK
T1 - The Temporality of Building
T2 - European and Chinese Perspectives on Architecture and Heritage
AU - Gao, Yun
AU - Temple, Nicholas
AU - Xiao, Jing
PY - 2024/11/12
Y1 - 2024/11/12
N2 - This book examines the role that time plays in the life of buildings, adopting a comparative study of this influence between European and Chinese traditions. Whilst issues of time in architecture have attracted increasing interest by academics in the West, challenging the dominant modernist precepts of space, there is little understanding of the subject in China and how these compare to historical and contemporary perspectives in Europe. A guiding premise of the investigation is that notions of building time require insight into how cultural habits commingle with natural rhythms, or what David Leatherbarrow calls “concurrency”.Rather than examining specific buildings, the first three chapters apply three key themes (language, ritual and heritage) as cultural lenses to reveal differences and similarities between the two traditions. Through these lenses, buildings, interiors and their exterior spaces (churches/ cathedrals, temples, palaces, gardens and courtyard houses) are explored to demonstrate how building time involves particular situations/ settings and their correlating relationships to past traditions. In the final chapter we consider notions of time in the context of contemporary buildings in Europe and China, drawing on the earlier historical investigations and addressing globalising influences.This book would be of interest to architects, architectural theorists, historians, philosophers, sociologists and anthropologists.
AB - This book examines the role that time plays in the life of buildings, adopting a comparative study of this influence between European and Chinese traditions. Whilst issues of time in architecture have attracted increasing interest by academics in the West, challenging the dominant modernist precepts of space, there is little understanding of the subject in China and how these compare to historical and contemporary perspectives in Europe. A guiding premise of the investigation is that notions of building time require insight into how cultural habits commingle with natural rhythms, or what David Leatherbarrow calls “concurrency”.Rather than examining specific buildings, the first three chapters apply three key themes (language, ritual and heritage) as cultural lenses to reveal differences and similarities between the two traditions. Through these lenses, buildings, interiors and their exterior spaces (churches/ cathedrals, temples, palaces, gardens and courtyard houses) are explored to demonstrate how building time involves particular situations/ settings and their correlating relationships to past traditions. In the final chapter we consider notions of time in the context of contemporary buildings in Europe and China, drawing on the earlier historical investigations and addressing globalising influences.This book would be of interest to architects, architectural theorists, historians, philosophers, sociologists and anthropologists.
KW - Temporality of Building
KW - European architecture and heritage
KW - Chinese Architecture and heritage
KW - Comparison between European and Chinese architecture
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Research-in-Architectural-History/book-series/RRAHIST
M3 - Book
SN - 9781138674851
SN - 9781041017981
VL - 1
T3 - Routledge: Research in Architecture History
BT - The Temporality of Building
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY - London and New York
ER -