Individual in life cycle - What do the phases mean? -What marks the transitions? House and village: individual and family in architectural expression -House.

• Individual in life cycle- What do the phases mean?- What marks the transitions?

• House and village: individual and family in architectural expression

-House as text-Location-Design and construction-Living in the house

Culture as “Over-determined”

The interface of architecture and kinship

• Tang ( 堂 ) – the main chamber in the centre rear of the house, hence “Tang-brother” (堂兄弟 ), which means….

• Fang ( 房 ) – the side chambers, hence “To go across to the other Fang” (过房 ), which means….

• Shi ( 室 ) – bed-chamber; hence “main shi; successor shi; side shi” (正室，继室，侧室 )), which mean….

• Houses are “the direct and unself-conscious translation into physical form of a culture, its needs and values – as well as the desires, dreams and passions of a people” Amos Rappaport

• A house is a cultural template, “living in it inculcates fundamental knowledge and skills specific to that culture. It is a learning device, a mechanism that converts ritual, political and cosmological relationships into spatial terms experienced daily and assimilated as natural” Francesca Bray

The Chinese house as text

-Location

-Design and construction

-Living in the house

Basic Layout of Jinhua house

• The Inner Chambers (Neifang)

Men farm; women weave