702-234 Asian Architecture B: China Korea Japan

A level one architectural history subject.

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, gardens and planning with an emphasis on ideas and techniques. Topics include the formation and development of vernacular architecture, timber architecture, city, palace, garden, ritual 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, planning, form, scale, techniques, construction, function and social role.

A class paper, an annotated bibliography, and an essay or architectural model to the equivalent of 3000 words (60%); plus a two- hour examination (40%).