Ancient Architecture Guide | Tracing the Art of Chinese Architecture

Tracing the Art of Chinese Architecture, Through Parchment and Shadow

Seeking scattered archives, drawings, and historical photographs.

Reviving the joinery in beams and the ingenuity in brackets.

Creating a digital memorandum for a vanishing architectural heritage.

Structure

Epic of Timber Frame

From the modular system in 'Yingzao Fashi' to the oral formulas of folk craftsmen, these non-textual inheritance systems form the gene pool of Chinese architecture.

Cliff Language

Sutras on Stone Walls

The intensity of chisel work, texture of rock layers, path of light—these vertical cliff faces are three-dimensional construction textbooks.

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Ancient Architecture Guide - Tracing the Art of Chinese Architecture, Through Parchment and Shadow