What is it about?
The paper argues for a reevaluation of architectural philosophy and its tendency to include only Western positions. An architectural philosophy open for a dialogue with Asian views, the paper outlines, would allow for a new approach to conceptualising the interconnectedness of minds, bodies, environments, and cultures. The paper links Asian and Western aesthetics with a discourse on ecology, and sets it into dialogue with contemporary theories of architecture and recent research on embodied cognition that engages from a new point of view with the natural sciences. This latter confirms positions of traditional Chinese philosophy.
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Why is it important?
The integration of traditional Chinese art and aesthetics into architectural theory, the paper suggests, could initiate a new eco-poetic way of thinking the built environment and its design in favour of a meaningful future.
Perspectives
The article shows that ancient thought is not necessarily outdated. Recent research in neuroscience, for example, confirms positions on embodied experience that can be found in ancient Chinese philosophy. They are incorporated in China's traditional architecture.
Dr. Claudia Westermann
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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This page is a summary of: An Eco-poetic Approach to Architecture Across Boundaries, KnE Social Sciences, November 2019, Knowledge E,
DOI: 10.18502/kss.v3i27.5533.
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An Eco-poetic Approach to Architecture Across Boundaries
The paper argues that an architectural philosophy that is open for a dialogue with Asian views would allow for a new approach to conceptualising the interconnectedness of minds, bodies, environments, and cultures.
An Eco-poetic Approach to Architecture Across Boundaries
The paper argues that an architectural philosophy that is open for a dialogue with Asian views would allow for a new approach to conceptualising the interconnectedness of minds, bodies, environments, and cultures.
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