童寯《江南园林志》的研究方法考察

A Study on the Research Methods of Documentation of Gardens in Eastern China(Jiangnan Yuanlinzhi)

文章从研究方法的角度考察了童寯《江南园林志》一书经久不衰的原因。该书所提供的园林名单不仅使60余座园林遗产得以保存与修缮,而且也成为发展对园林的认识的来源和基础。该书运用了文档搜集、观察记录、访谈等研究方法;写作上具有描摹有道、入深取约、谨慎概括、逸趣常新四个特点,这些特点与当今理性、推演的科学研究方法存在着诸多不同,应该融入到建筑学的研究方法中。

This paper explores what made the Documentation of Gardens in Eastern China Uiangnan Yuanlinzhi） by Tung Chuin as a popular and classical read.Not only among the first a few books outlining the area of Chinese Classical Garden studies,the garden list prescribed by the book also helps recognize60 most important garden heritages for preservation and restoration.This paper summarizes the research methods utilized by Tung,such as document collection,observation and measured drawings,and interviews.By examining the insights offered by the book,the paper suggests four features of the writing,such as visualization in description,writing topic selection,being restraint in summarization,and literati tastes.These features differ from the current rational and deductive scientific methods,which should be integrated as an indispensable part of architectural research methods.