Kenzo Tange Lecture: Wang Shu, "Geometry and Narrative of Natural Form"
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2024
- Lecture by Wang Shu, Principal of Amateur Architecture Studio and Head of the Architecture School, China Academy of Art.
"Amateur Architecture Studio was founded in 1998 by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu in Hangzhou, China. Their approach is based around a critique of the architectural profession which they view as complicit in the demolition of entire urban areas and the transformation of rural areas through excessive building. The practice first came to wider attention in Europe with their pavilion for the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2006; a comment on the on-going demolitions, their installation 'Tiled Garden' was made from 66,000 recycled tiles salvaged from demolition sites.
"Rather than looking towards the West for inspiration, as many of their contemporaries do, the practice's work is embedded in the history and traditions of Chinese culture. In particular they reference everyday building tactics of ordinary people and the strong vernacular tradition of building in China. The name of their practice signals this commitment to learning from the 'amateur builder', focusing on craft skills and applying this to contemporary architecture. Wang Shu spent a number of years working on building sites with traditional craftsmen in order to learn from them. Combining this traditional knowledge with experimental building techniques and intensive research Amateur Architecture Studio respond to the ongoing challenges of the rapidly urbanising context of China. They do so with a site-specific architecture that valorises crafts and skill over professional knowledge and expertise." This text and more can be found here.
Great lecture.
His lecture in Chinese was much easier to understand and also presented his idea much more clearly.
I think that painting is Along the River During the Qingming Festival
again reading an intro is a slap in the face
but the first paper money was printed in Sichuan in the west of China, not in the capital.
Presentation is not his forte but I get his main idea. Take architecture as landscape itself
YAY for holistic urbanity! what what!
A shame that they didn`t let space for questions at the end of the lecture.
14:12 From the plan in the middle you can clearly see that the two pics are taken towards different sides of the lake, and the captions also reveal that in Chinese (“东” and "西" are East and West). So, Wangshu definitely knows that, but he deliberately chose to ignore the fact and then lied to the audience so naturally... The city is on the east side of the lake, while the mountains are on the west. You can check that on Google Maps easily. Not to mention that the city of Hangzhou had solid city walls until the 1920s or 30s, so his argument that citizens used to live closely with nature is untenable (such a lifestyle was only shown in the drawings by the middle and upper class, or as he said ‘scholars’). I really admire his study in the drawings and I like his works, but I can't believe he used to twist the facts to support his ‘philosophy’.
If architects would run our world, we would have much more beauty&construction and much less politics&destruction (8
I have respect for Wangshu and his work but feel sad about how his presentation is limited by language. I’ve seen him presenting almost the same content in different occasions with his mother tongue and it conveyed his philosophy much better. Maybe the Kenzo Tange Lecture could offer the guests translators?
the lecture.. was only 2 hours long
It is funny how he barely referred to his own architecture as if the painting is enough to understaing some of his most known work! again a difference between east and west culture.
I feel he has a lot of anger, like many other Chinese, but he created peace in his architecture
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I hate the way he refers China as 'they', as if he's not Chinese.
"They" obviously refer to these administrations who disregard traditional Chinese aesthetics.