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Assistant Professor
B.Eng. in Arch. (Chongqing Institute
of Architecture & Engineering, 1989); M.Eng. in Arch.
(Tongji University, 1991); Dr. of Eng. in Arch. History & Theory
(Tongji University, 1995); M.Sc. in Arch. (University of
Cincinnati, 1998); Ph.D. in architectural history and theory
(McGill University, 2005); Fellow of Garden and Landscape
Studies (Dumbarton Oaks [Trustees for Harvard University],
2001-2002).
more : faculty profile
email : hzou@ufl.edu
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Comparative Architecture
Dr. Hui Zou completed his first doctorate in 1995 on the philosophy
of comparative architecture in China, which defined "comparative architecture" as "an
architectural discourse for critical and poetical building." Based
on a systematic study in European continental philosophies and their relationship
with Western contemporary architectural theories, research on the theory
of "distancing" as a strategy for "seeking brightness and
singularity of architectural form" was completed in the USA in 1998.
In 2005, Dr. Zou completed a second doctoral thesis, in Canada, on the
history of a Jesuit garden in eighteenth-century Beijing, which demonstrated
how comparative architecture was correlated with the historicity of architecture
and garden existence. Current research projects are closely related with
his teaching at UF: the first is to establish the pedagogy of a comparative
architectural discourse through his teaching of architectural history;
the second is to explore the theory of material transformation of the "intersubjective
idea" in architectural design through his teaching of studio and theory
courses.
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A Book of Gardens
(Exhibited at the exhibition 70 Architects on Love, Center of Design, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, September 2007)
This metaphoric construct was developed from Jorge Luis Borges’s fictional work, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” in which he stated, “The book and the labyrinth were one and the same.” The construct is intended to explore the interactive relationship between fiction, reality and interpretation. It looks like a book on the outside, but the crystal macro-lens and the traditional Chinese knot, as the bookmark, leads into the mystic contents of the book. The inside of the book contains a mosaic landscape and a plaster garden, which complement each other like yin and yang. |
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