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【Seminar 19.10.2024】 Across the Boundary: Baroque Architecture in China
Release time：2024-10-18
2024 Tongji University-Werner Oechslin Library-ETH Zürich
Seminar on history and theory of architecture
Across the Boundary:
Baroque Architecture in China
Time
October 19-20, 2024
Venue
Online Meeting
Host
Prof. Werner Oechslin
Head of Library Werner Oechslin
Former Director of gta, ETH Zürich
Prof. LU Yongyi
Tongji Universtity
Seminar Program
October 19th, 2024
Opening Ceremony
16:30-16:35
An introduction by Professor Lu Yongyi
16:35-16:40
Opening Address by Professor Philip F. YUAN, Deputy Dean of CAUP, Tongji University
Keynote Speech
16:40-16:45 Prof. Werner Oechslin
<Baroque Architecture, a start from Rome>
16:45-16:50
Photo of participants
Session 1: The Baroque Church, the early transplantation in China
16:50-17:10
IENG WENG FAT, SAMUEL
<The facade of St. Paul’s Church in Macau─The earliest existing Mannerist architecture in China>
17:10-17:30
Yang Jing
<Prototype, Structure, and Influence: Study on the Nantang Church in Beijing>
17:30-18:00
Comments and discussions
18:00-19:30
Break
Session 2: The Baroque Garden, as the start of connecting the east and the west
19:30-19:50
Zou Hui
<Renaissance or Baroque?: A Jesuit Garden in Qing-Dynasty China>
19:50-20:10
Duan Jianqiang
<The Mirror of Limitations: The Painting of the Whole Scene and the Spatial Creation of the Forbidden City's Studio of Weary Indigence>
20:10-20:30
Antonio De Caro
<Salus Populi Sinensis: The longue durée reception of Marian images in China (1500–1900)>
20:30-21:00
Comments and discussions
October 20th, 2024
Session 3: Baroque Style, transforming the cityscape
16:30-16:50
Jiang Jiawei
<Ideas of Baroque Urban Planning: from West Europe to East Asia>
16:50-17:10
Dong Jianfei
<Collision and Integration: Analysis of Chinese Baroque Architecture in Harbin>
17:10-17:30
Xu Haohao
<Baroque in Canton>
17:30-18:00
Comments and discussions
18:00-19:00
Break
Session 4: Baroque Architecture, multiple interpretations of a historical style
19:00-19:20
Qian Feng
<Western Influences and Chinese interpretations in Teaching Baroque Architecture>
19:20-19:40
Wang Yulin
<The illustrations of Baroque in Space, Time and Architecture>
19:40-20:00
Maarten Delbeke
<Post-War Baroque, French views of German Rococo after 1945>
20:00-20:30
Comments and discussions
A Conclusion by Professor Werner Oechslin
IENG WENG FAT, SAMUEL
Historian in Macau, Member of the Committee of Cultural Heritage in Macau
Yang Jing
Associate professor in Tianjin University
Zou Hui
Professor in University of Florida
Duan Jianqiang
Associate professor in Inner Mongolian Institute of Technology
Antonio De Caro
Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich
Jiang Jiawei
Assistant professor in Tongji University
Dong Jianfei
Associate professor in Harbin Institute of Technology
Xu Haohao
Associate professor in South China University of Technology
Qian Feng
Associate professor in Tongji University
Wang Yulin
Doctoral candidate in Tongji University
Maarten Delbeke
Full professor at the Department of Architecture, deputy head of gta, ETH Zurich
