A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
On uncertain ground: lost landscapes, digital mediation, and site-based research at early Qing Chengde
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The study of premodern architecture and built environments, particularly those involving extensive designed landscapes, presents a variety of challenges for the architectural historian. The problems of fragmentary source pools and unconventional sources, incomplete architectural remains, and the reconstruction of historical stratigraphy take particularly acute form in researching historic Chinese landscapes. This essay explores challenges and opportunities encountered in addressing these issues through the use of global information systems, or GIS. It represents a methodological reflection on efforts to reconstruct the physical and experiential landscapes of the largest eighteenth-century Qing imperial park-palace, Bishu shanzhuang 避暑 山莊, or the Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat, at a particular moment in its history. Rooted in other strands of spatial thinking about humanistic subjects, the methods and outcomes described below seek to put the disparate sources of the architectural, landscape, pictorial and textual archives related to the site in dialogue with one another to visualize multiple, overlapping iterations of the Mountain Estate in both physical and conceptual forms.
On uncertain ground: lost landscapes, digital mediation, and site-based research at early Qing Chengde
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4451-4180
The study of premodern architecture and built environments, particularly those involving extensive designed landscapes, presents a variety of challenges for the architectural historian. The problems of fragmentary source pools and unconventional sources, incomplete architectural remains, and the reconstruction of historical stratigraphy take particularly acute form in researching historic Chinese landscapes. This essay explores challenges and opportunities encountered in addressing these issues through the use of global information systems, or GIS. It represents a methodological reflection on efforts to reconstruct the physical and experiential landscapes of the largest eighteenth-century Qing imperial park-palace, Bishu shanzhuang 避暑 山莊, or the Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat, at a particular moment in its history. Rooted in other strands of spatial thinking about humanistic subjects, the methods and outcomes described below seek to put the disparate sources of the architectural, landscape, pictorial and textual archives related to the site in dialogue with one another to visualize multiple, overlapping iterations of the Mountain Estate in both physical and conceptual forms.
On uncertain ground: lost landscapes, digital mediation, and site-based research at early Qing Chengde
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4451-4180
The study of premodern architecture and built environments, particularly those involving extensive designed landscapes, presents a variety of challenges for the architectural historian. The problems of fragmentary source pools and unconventional sources, incomplete architectural remains, and the reconstruction of historical stratigraphy take particularly acute form in researching historic Chinese landscapes. This essay explores challenges and opportunities encountered in addressing these issues through the use of global information systems, or GIS. It represents a methodological reflection on efforts to reconstruct the physical and experiential landscapes of the largest eighteenth-century Qing imperial park-palace, Bishu shanzhuang 避暑 山莊, or the Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat, at a particular moment in its history. Rooted in other strands of spatial thinking about humanistic subjects, the methods and outcomes described below seek to put the disparate sources of the architectural, landscape, pictorial and textual archives related to the site in dialogue with one another to visualize multiple, overlapping iterations of the Mountain Estate in both physical and conceptual forms.
On uncertain ground: lost landscapes, digital mediation, and site-based research at early Qing Chengde
Int J Digit Humanities
Whiteman, Stephen H. (author)
International Journal of Digital Humanities ; 4 ; 5-39
2023-02-01
35 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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