The research aims to investigate the role of antiquity in Chinese culture to understand the role of the past in shaping Chinese cities, the past and present theories of heritage protection, and to detect their possible evolution. Some key concepts, therefore, need to be first investigated and clarified to give an account of the peculiar development of Chinese cities and the specific relationship between the old and the new, such as the idea of antiquity, memory, the past, tradition, and finally preservation. The research intends to verify what kind of nature has the memory in the Chinese city and in what specific form we can shape a tradition of modern architecture capable of retaining past urban features, protecting fabrics, and retaining traces while allowing a sustainable degree of development. Therefore, a continuous search for a dialogue between the past and the present is necessary to root a new kind of modernity into an awareness of our traditions. In this way of thinking, protecting historic areas should look at the uniqueness of each cultural context in in-depth research that includes getting to know the thing that needs to be protected better and coming up with a way to combine modern design with conservation measures. From the theoretical aspect, the dissertation deepens the comparison of critical contemporary keywords such as antiquity and authenticity in different Chinese cultural theories compared with the Western ones. Such keywords are examined in the state of the art by both reviewing the theoretical background and several cases in China, as well as analyzing conservation plans and the frequently occurring problems derived from the simplification of their analytical tools, the lack of in-depth surveys, the disregard for material aspects of culture, and the lack of proper tools for balancing the contradiction between protection and development. Through a deep analysis of selected case studies in China, the research intends to clarify the issues in the concrete reality of a given context and look for meaningful comparisons with Italian cases. Finally, the research would propose a new understanding of the authenticity and identity of a given context, envisioning a combined approach of conservation and enhancement and tracing some meaningful guidelines for historical and morphological analysis.
La ricerca si propone di indagare il ruolo dell’antichità nella cultura cinese per comprendere il ruolo del passato nel plasmare le città cinesi, le teorie passate e presenti di protezione del patrimonio e per rilevarne la possibile evoluzione. Per dare conto del peculiare sviluppo delle città cinesi e dello specifico rapporto tra vecchio e nuovo; come l’idea di antichità, di memoria, di passato, di tradizione e infine di conservazione, alcuni concetti chiave necessitano di essere prima indagati e chiariti. La ricerca intende verificare quale tipo di natura abbia memoria nella città cinese e in quale forma specifica possiamo plasmare una tradizione di architettura moderna capace di conservare le caratteristiche urbane del passato, proteggere i tessuti e conservare le tracce consentendo, simultaneamente, uno sviluppo sostenibile. Pertanto, è necessaria una continua ricerca di dialogo tra passato e presente per radicare un nuovo tipo di modernità nella consapevolezza delle nostre tradizioni. Seguendo questa linea di pensiero la protezione delle aree storiche dovrebbe guardare all’unicità di ciascun contesto culturale in una ricerca approfondita che includa la conoscenza di ciò che deve essere protetto meglio e la ricerca di un modo per combinare il design moderno con le misure di conservazione. Dal punto di vista teorico, la tesi approfondisce il confronto di parole chiave critiche contemporanee quali antichità e autenticità nelle diverse teorie culturali cinesi rispetto a quelle occidentali. Tali parole chiave vengono esaminate allo stato dell'arte sia rivedendo il background teorico e alcuni casi in Cina, sia analizzando i piani di conservazione e i problemi più frequenti derivanti dalla semplificazione dei loro strumenti analitici, dalla mancanza di indagini approfondite, il disprezzo per gli aspetti materiali della cultura e la mancanza di strumenti adeguati per bilanciare la contraddizione tra protezione e sviluppo. Attraverso un'analisi approfondita di casi studio selezionati in Cina, la ricerca intende chiarire le problematiche nella realtà concreta di un dato contesto e cercare confronti significativi con i casi italiani. La ricerca, infine, proporrà una nuova comprensione dell’autenticità e dell’identità di un dato contesto, prospettando un approccio combinato di conservazione e valorizzazione e tracciando alcune linee guida significative per l’analisi storica e morfologica.
The Memory of Antiquity in China: Theories and Principles Between Rewriting and Preservation
Qin, Ling
2022/2023
Abstract
The research aims to investigate the role of antiquity in Chinese culture to understand the role of the past in shaping Chinese cities, the past and present theories of heritage protection, and to detect their possible evolution. Some key concepts, therefore, need to be first investigated and clarified to give an account of the peculiar development of Chinese cities and the specific relationship between the old and the new, such as the idea of antiquity, memory, the past, tradition, and finally preservation. The research intends to verify what kind of nature has the memory in the Chinese city and in what specific form we can shape a tradition of modern architecture capable of retaining past urban features, protecting fabrics, and retaining traces while allowing a sustainable degree of development. Therefore, a continuous search for a dialogue between the past and the present is necessary to root a new kind of modernity into an awareness of our traditions. In this way of thinking, protecting historic areas should look at the uniqueness of each cultural context in in-depth research that includes getting to know the thing that needs to be protected better and coming up with a way to combine modern design with conservation measures. From the theoretical aspect, the dissertation deepens the comparison of critical contemporary keywords such as antiquity and authenticity in different Chinese cultural theories compared with the Western ones. Such keywords are examined in the state of the art by both reviewing the theoretical background and several cases in China, as well as analyzing conservation plans and the frequently occurring problems derived from the simplification of their analytical tools, the lack of in-depth surveys, the disregard for material aspects of culture, and the lack of proper tools for balancing the contradiction between protection and development. Through a deep analysis of selected case studies in China, the research intends to clarify the issues in the concrete reality of a given context and look for meaningful comparisons with Italian cases. Finally, the research would propose a new understanding of the authenticity and identity of a given context, envisioning a combined approach of conservation and enhancement and tracing some meaningful guidelines for historical and morphological analysis.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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