邬劲旅:建筑作品与人生

King-Lui Wu:Works and Life of An Architect

邬劲旅(1918—2002年)出自广东番禺余荫山房邬氏家族,被家庭送往美国学习建筑学。他在哈佛大学师从格罗皮乌斯,获得学士和硕士学位,日后在耶鲁大学教书和开业。邬劲旅内敛而低调,在他从教的43年内尽心尽力辅助历任耶鲁建筑学院院长处理院务以及组织教学。他擅长平面推敲,探讨日光与建筑的关系,建成了一批优秀的小型住宅项目。文章通过查询耶鲁大学图书馆手稿档案特藏部收藏的邬劲旅档案,结合采访和实地调研,力图勾勒这位美籍岭南裔建筑师的设计思维轨迹,探讨其家乡情怀。

King-Lui Wu(1918-2002) was a descendent of the Wu Family who owned the Yu Yam Ancestral Garden in Guangdong,China.His family later sent him to study architecture in the United States.Having studied under Walter Gropius at Harvard,where Wu earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees,he later taught and practiced at Yale University.Humble and reserved,Wu assisted several deans of Yale School of Architecture in his 43 years of administrative service and pedagogical practice.He was an expert in plan configuration and dealing with the relation between daylight and architecture,and built a series of excellent projects of detached houses.By referring to King-Lui Wu’s drawings in the Yale Manuscripts and Archives Collection and the interviews with Wu’s family and friends,this paper dissects the evolution of Wu’s design strategies as well as his nostalgic ideas of gardens in South China.