Department of Architecture Faculty Presenting in the 15th Chinese
Academic Conference on Vernacular Architecture
July 2007
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| A model of traditional
timber architecture displayed in the Museum of the Faculty of
Architecture, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology |
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The model of Tang Dynasty Chang'an
City displayed in Xi'an Museum |
Mr. Stan Lai (HKIA, RA), a faculty member of our Department of
Architecture, presented a paper on “Reconstructing Nga Tsin Wai:
The Morphological Transformation of a Guangfu Walled Village in
Xin’an Region 重 構 衙 前 圍 ：一 條 新 安 地 區 廣 府 圍 村 的
形 態 演 變 ” in the 15th Chinese Academic Conference on Vernacular
Architecture 第 十 五 次 中 國 民 居 學 術 會 議 on 20 – 22 July
2007.
The Architecture Committee of the Chinese Vernacular Architecture
Research Association and Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology
jointly organized the conference in Xi’an. Over a hundred scholars
and practitioners form Mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Korea
participated in the discussion on the theme “The Innovation of
Chinese Vernacular Architecture and Culture”.
After the Conference, the participants joined the field trip in
Shaanxi Province on the following 4 days and visited places which
included courtyard house villages, cave dwelling villages, traditional
towns, imperial tomb architecture and sites of early Chinese Communist
Party.
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| A cave dwelling
in Yen'an |
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Ruins of Han Yang Tomb
for Jin Emperor of Western Han Dynasty
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