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  • Athena of Architecture: Commemorating Architect Tes-Nan Hsiu, and Rethinking Women's Spatial Practice

    Introduction: Athena of Architecture--Commemorating Architect Tes-Nan Hsiu, and Rethinking Women's Spatial Practice

    Architect Tes-Nan HSIU had passed away on Feb. 2016. To commemorate her achievements, Architectural Institute of Taiwan edits this special volume of 2017 spring. Through getting closer to her architecture, we expect to trace women's spatial practice for architectural education and profession in the postwar world.

    Author : Li-Yu Hsu (許麗玉) / Guest Editor

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  • Architectural Criticism Open

    Li-Yu Hsu | Criticism as the Supplement of History Writing

    Criticism has to take a certain standing. Constructive criticism has to base on solid ground: methodology of inspecting the truth, and the historical understanding of the overlooked or the excluded. The first priority of criticism is to replenish history with a sounded methodology. However, the cycle and effectiveness of architectural criticism is not as what modern architects thought. 

    Author : Li-Yu Hsu (許麗玉), Co-Founder of WAT

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  • Athena of Architecture: Commemorating Architect Tes-Nan Hsiu, and Rethinking Women's Spatial Practice

    Li-Yu Hsu | Athena of Architecture

    The birth of Pallas Athena in Greek mythology was very different from that of Venus, the Goddess of Love, who was born in a shell and fancy bubbles. The goddess breaks out from Zeus’s head, already fully grown and armed in golden armor. She is the beautiful, tough and clever one: she is the goddess of knowledge, arts, crafts, learning, justice and wisdom.

    Author : Li-Yu Hsu (許麗玉)

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  • Architectural Criticism Open

    Chia-Ju Lin | Architectural Relativism

    Contemporary architecture has passed the stage of elevating absolute value and authority. Architect and architectural critics of our time attempt to establish and define, for individual or common architectural creation, its unique track amid the flow of history. With the elaboration and record of a diverse array of architecture criticism, through a continual observation, we may thus capture the contour and significance of contemporary individual architecture.

    Author : Chia-Ju Lin (林家如)

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  • Athena of Architecture: Commemorating Architect Tes-Nan Hsiu, and Rethinking Women's Spatial Practice

    Tes-Nan HSIU and Chinese Cultural Renaissance

    The characteristic works of architect Tes-Nan Hsiu embodies diversity. It enriches the postmodern looks of post-war architecture in Taiwan. In just two decades between 1959 and late 1970s, the grand spectrum of "images" of her works  include her reading, conversion, fusion and digestion of architectural languages and contemporary thoughts--including functionalism, eclectic revivalism, expressionism, organism, and garden city at the least.

    Author : Ya-Chun Chiang

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  • Athena of Architecture: Commemorating Architect Tes-Nan Hsiu, and Rethinking Women's Spatial Practice

    Formation and Tracing - Rethinking our design of Yang-Ming High School Complex and Tse-Lan Hsiu’s Planning

    這篇文章緣起於陽明高中一棟圓形的活動中心建築設計構想,將戴嘉惠、林欣蘋與修澤蘭三位女建築師,超越時間隔斷,在空間中連結起來。

    Author : Jia-Hui Day, Hsin-Pin Lin, Li-Yu Hsu

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  • Athena of Architecture: Commemorating Architect Tes-Nan Hsiu, and Rethinking Women's Spatial Practice

    Le-Ching Chiang | Learning Architecture

    Architectural design stands for the ability of integrating resources and seeing clearly where you are. For 15 years, I have been motivated to design and to teach, with the intention of establishing my works and my existence as a witness. I want those girls who are passionate about architectural design dare to go after their dreams when they witness me. Today, girl students are as many as boy students. This is a good sign. However, independent practice female architects are still rare. Learning architecture indicates power. I believe women should gain more spaces in architectural education, so that women’s agenda and defense for architectural space will be heard and seen. I encourage women to be themselves, to speak out their mind with courage, and not to absent in terms of architectural and spatial public issues. Your future should not be defined by your race and your gender. 

    Author : Le-Ching Chiang (姜樂靜)

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  • Athena of Architecture: Commemorating Architect Tes-Nan Hsiu, and Rethinking Women's Spatial Practice

    The ARCHITECT, is what I engaged in

    如果職業有性別形象,我從事的這一行之性別形象長期以來便是男性,即「建築師」是男性的刻板印象未曾動搖。隨著近百年來世界各地越來越多的女性能進入建築學院學習建築與專業知識,並能獨立開業主持設計工作,「女性建築師」(女建築師)被視為有別於(男性)建築師的另一種「建築師」。

    Author : Chia-Hui, Lin

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