The reawakening of the Chinese heritage through a cultural embassy : transformation of the Chinese architectural language

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Chin, Horacio Y. W. (Horacio Yuen Wing)
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Chinese heritage through a cultural embassy, The reawakening of the.
Chinese architectural language, Transformation of the.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
Advisor
Yim Lim.
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Abstract
A possible resolution to prevent a strong tight-knit ethnic community from diminishing is through a reawakening to the heritage of the people. In this thesis I propose the creation of a CULTURAL EMBASSY to instill pride and arouse self-awareness of the well-educated Chinese first, and eventually the Chinese of all social levels in Boston to revitalize the entire Chinatown. Architecturally, this proposed building will carry a uniqueness of its own: a kind of cultural form and vocabulary containing the expression of today's technology and embodiment of the perpetual Chinese ideology in a Boston context. The appropriate "Chineseness" will be identified through the use of cultural vocabularies of the Chinese architectural language.
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Thesis (M. Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-129).
 
Date issued
1988
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72259
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Architecture.
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