桃花源外的村落——中国乡土建筑的研究拓展及其意义

Villages Beyond Utopia Nostalgic Illusion and Historical Complexities of Chinese Vernacular Architecture

提出中国村落研究中存在一些习以为常的理论预设误区,通过中国东南地区的几个研究案例指出,中国明清时期的村落不仅内涵着儒家精英的文化,还借鉴了世界各地的建筑元素,甚至出现了诸多"现代"建筑和规划元素。这些"反桃花源"的特征,都是中国传统村落和乡土建筑的独特之处;本文意在为中国乡土建筑提供更开阔、也更灵活的阐释框架,从学术角度突破今天保护利用的瓶颈。

This paper aims to disenchant several ＂classical＂ rural theories that confine the interpretation and development of Chinese villages.It presents several pre-modern villages in the Southeast to illustrate the realization of Confucian elitism,with the amalgamation of different international architectural styles and Chinese experiment towards the modern world in the meantime.It is the antiutopian elements that characterize traditional villages and vernacular architecture in China.This paper pines for a broader and more flexible analytical framework for the study of vernacular architecture.