The Outline of《Critical Conservation and Revitalization of Architectural Heritage》

Basic Teaching Information

Course Introduction

Historic Asian cities are often regarded as the cradle of civilization and have played a vital role in the development of human societies. in the past few decades, cities across Asia have been experiencing tremendous transformations in their social, cultural, and economic structures due to an unprecedented rate of urbanization and rural-urban migration. even as millions living in these cities currently enjoy a share of ‘progress,’ they are nevertheless under the constant threat of destruction. what is at stake is the erasure of the cultural endowments and values of various communities, and the rapid and irreversible alteration of the character of inner-city neighborhoods – these have repercussions on how people live and work, and on the preservation of urban fabric. to that end, we prepare our students with historical perspectives, cultivate intellectual tools, and acquire practical design and conservation skills to manage conservation projects of different scales and context. our students will understand that the most pressing urban heritage management challenges cannot be solved by a single discipline but requires interdisciplinary collaborations across professions and key stakeholders.

The Allocation of Content and Lecture Hours

Assessment Methods and Marking Criterion

Textbooks and References

Siegfried Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition, Harvard University Press, 2003

Kenneth Frampton, Modern Architecture A Critical History, Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1992

Colin Rowe, the mathematics of the ideal Villa, The MIT Press, 1982

Philip Johnson, Hitchcock, The International Style: Architecture since 1922, W. W. Norton & Companpany, 1997

Bernard Tschumi, Architectural Concept: Red is not a Color, Rizzoli, 2012

Mohsen Mostafavi, Gareth Doherty, ed., Ecological Urbanism, Lars Muller , 2010

Peter Walker, Melanie Simo, eds., Invisible Gardens: the Search for Modernism in the American Landscape, The MIT Press, 1996

Robert Venturi, the Contradiction and Complexity of Architecture, Museum of Modern Art, 1977

Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City, The MIT Press, 1960

Christian Norberg Schulz, Genius Loci : Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, Rizzoli, 1979

Amos Rapoport, House Form and Culture, Prentice Hall, 1969

Lewis Mumford, The City in History: its Origins, it Transformations, and its Prospects, Harcourt, 1968

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Vintage, 1992

Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, 1997