Integrating Geometry Within a Poetic Setting: Steering a Path Between the Artificial and the Natural. (1st November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Li, Xinggang
• Other Names: Lu Andong guestEditor.; Dou Pingping guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 88:Number 6(2018)
• Page Start: 16
• Page End: 23
• Publication Date: 2018-11-01
• Subjects: Eastern Qing imperial tombs -- feng shui -- 'Integrated Geometry and Poetic Scenery' -- Atelier Li Xinggang -- Columbia University Beijing Centre for Architecture -- Jixi Museum -- Mount Huang -- Anhui province -- poet Runyang Lu -- gymnasium -- Tianjin University -- Haihe River -- Tianjin -- No 28 Dayuan Hutong -- Beijing -- five strategies; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2360
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract : Anodyne, internationally identical urban environments are leaving the human spirit bereft. According toXinggang Li – a practising architect and visiting professor at Tianjin University – what is needed is an injection of poetics and a heightened awareness of context. Here he sets out the vision on which his award‐winning architectural office Atelier Li Xinggang bases its work, and highlights some of its recent projects where an interrelationship between the artificial and the natural makes for inspiring and harmonious settings in which to live, learn or play.