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Seven Misunderstandings About Classical Architecture
https://qtarchitects.com/publications/essay-seven-misunderstandings/
I try to practice as a classical architect today, and I enjoy it.
I have come to this position not by listening to lectures or intellectual arguments (because it is not primarily an academic subject), but by working for eleven years side by side with a great architect, Raymond Erith RA, who died in 1973.
In the past, architectural students started as apprentices working in offices and coming together in the evenings to discuss their ideas – ideas that they had picked up from their masters and the practical world around them. Today, the modern system of architectural education requires that students spend five years full-time in academic theory before being allowed out to start forming a theory based on practical experience. It is possibly because of this process of indoctrination that students often ask questions of a theoretical kind which do not relate to the practical world and the art of building. It is this relationship between theory and practice that causes frequent misunderstandings about the relevance of classical architecture today.
There are many ways in which classical architecture is misunderstood, and the theme of this paper is based on seven of the more frequent misunderstandings. These concern the following subjects:Pastiche
Functionalism
New building types
Materials
Cost
Tradesmen
Politics
Let us start with misunderstanding 1. A popular misconception is that classical architecture is pastiche; it is often said that it is a simple matter of cribbing from the pattern books. I notice that many art historians are full of this and – like all people who are protected from reality – they will never learn until they start to practise. I believe there is something in the Gospels: ‘If you know these things, happy are ye if ye do them’. It is only in the doing that we learn.
Saturday, July 3, 2021
ISE JINGU AND THE PYRAMID OF ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
https://theprepared.org/features-feed/ise-jingu-and-the-pyramid-of-enabling-technologies
The Ise Jingu Grand Shrine sits in the forests of Ise-Shima National Park, in Japan’s Mie Prefecture. Ise Jingu (or simply Jingu) is a Shinto shrine dating back over 2000 years, and is one of the most important and sacred Shinto sites in Japan, standing at the top of all other shrines. More than 1500 rituals are held at Jingu every year, to pray for the Imperial family, a bountiful harvest, and a peaceful world.
The complex itself is spread over an area the size of Paris and consists of two large shrines, Naiku and Geku, and 123 smaller shrines. Naiku, the inner shrine, is dedicated to the worship of the sun goddess Amaterasu, and Geku, the outer shrine, is dedicated to Toyouke-Ōmikami, the god of agriculture, rice, and industry. Millions of pilgrims and tourists visit Jingu each year, but are strictly prevented from approaching Naiku and Geku, which are hidden behind large fences.
Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known as Shikinen sengu, or simply sengu. Every 20 years exact copies of Naiku, Geku, and 14 other shrines are built on empty sites next to the existing structures, after which the old structures are torn down. Altogether 65 buildings, bridges, fences, and other structures are rebuilt this way. This reconstruction at Jingu has taken place every 20 years (with some interruptions) for over 1300 years, since the first sengu took place around 690 AD.
Friday, July 2, 2021
Liang Sicheng's drawings of Foguang Temple 佛光寺
https://learning.hku.hk/ccch9051/group-13/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Liang+sicheng%0D%0A
