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Lecture
The Architecture of the École des Beaux-Arts
Speaker:
WANG Yanze
Wang Yanze is the assistant professor at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, and Class 1 Registered Architect of PRC. Her research concerns the evolution of architectural education and the pedagogy of architectural design. She was granted doctoral degree in architectural design and theory by Southeast University in 2019. She served as a visiting researcher or tutor at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Brno University of Technology. Her publications include but are not limited to Beaux-Arts Composition and Its Evolution in China's Architectural Education（SCI and A&HCI）, Pure Design: A Transitional Case of American Architectural Education in the Early 20th Century (CSSCI), and Study on the Revival of Beaux-Arts Research in the 1970s of the United States.
Time: October 12, 2022 (Wednesday), 19：00–20：35
Tencent Meeting ID: 447972109, Password: 7346
Brief Introduction
This lecture concentrates on the architecture of the École des Beaux-Arts and its educational system, aims to depict a full image of the concept of the École des Beaux-Arts, and open a discussion to its influence on modern architecture. The target is approached from three topics – French Beaux-Arts system including atelier, competition and composition; American Beaux-Arts transplanting in high education of universities; its decline corresponding to the shade of Modernism and a retrospection along with modern architecture debates.
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