702-234 Asian Architecture B: China Korea Japan

Any level-one fine arts/architectural history subject offered by the Faculty of Arts or the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning (or permission of the head of department).

The course considers the history of East Asian architecture as a whole within a systematic treatment of architectural design and construction, building science and technology, garden design and city planning. The course lays stress equally on architecture, garden and planning with an emphasis on details. Topics include the formation and development of vernacular architecture, timber architecture, city, palace, garden, spiritualist architecture, tombs and educational architecture. Students will develop an understanding of the tangible and intangible architectural heritage of Chinese, Korean and Japanese architecture; skills in information gathering and critical synthesis, essay and report-writing, and visual and oral presentation techniques required for the independent interpretation of buildings, gardens and places in terms of their context, form, scale, planning, spatial techniques, function, construction and social role.

A class paper, annotated bibliography, and an essay or architectural model, to the equivalent of 7500 words.