{"title":"Revealing sites: three post-industrial landscapes of Zhu Yufan","authors":"Fang Wei, Ron Henderson","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2023.2292466","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The landscape architect Zhu Yufan interrogates the legacy of Chinese painting and historic garden design in the context of twenty-first-century post-industrial sites, material culture, and human experiences. This paper examines three projects completed in the past 15 years that extend traditional scholarly principles into contemporary public landscapes. At the Qinghai Atomic Memorial, Zhu explores multiple attributes of ‘threshold’ among other topics. At Chenshan Quarry Garden, he explores shanshui principles, including ‘near and far’ (proximity and distance) and ‘spirit resonance’. At Shougang Qunming Lake Park, he draws from the horizontal unfolding and interstitial spaces of hand scrolls. In these three projects, Zhu challenges a designer’s a priori projections onto a site with a conceptual framework for design that, conversely, expresses the landscape through reading the site. Beauty arrives not only by virtue of painterly space or analytical rationality but also from the agency that the site itself reveals.","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2023.2292466","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHITECTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract The landscape architect Zhu Yufan interrogates the legacy of Chinese painting and historic garden design in the context of twenty-first-century post-industrial sites, material culture, and human experiences. This paper examines three projects completed in the past 15 years that extend traditional scholarly principles into contemporary public landscapes. At the Qinghai Atomic Memorial, Zhu explores multiple attributes of ‘threshold’ among other topics. At Chenshan Quarry Garden, he explores shanshui principles, including ‘near and far’ (proximity and distance) and ‘spirit resonance’. At Shougang Qunming Lake Park, he draws from the horizontal unfolding and interstitial spaces of hand scrolls. In these three projects, Zhu challenges a designer’s a priori projections onto a site with a conceptual framework for design that, conversely, expresses the landscape through reading the site. Beauty arrives not only by virtue of painterly space or analytical rationality but also from the agency that the site itself reveals.
期刊介绍:
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes addresses itself to readers with a serious interest in the subject, and is now established as the main place in which to publish scholarly work on all aspects of garden history. The journal"s main emphasis is on detailed and documentary analysis of specific sites in all parts of the world, with focus on both design and reception. The journal is also specifically interested in garden and landscape history as part of wider contexts such as social and cultural history and geography, aesthetics, technology, (most obviously horticulture), presentation and conservation.