Cultural sustainability is a very important aspect of the overall
sustainability framework and is regarded as the fourth pillar
alongside the other three: environmental, economic, and social
sustainability. However, the concept is neither fully explored, nor
widely accepted or recognized. This book elicits the interplay of
nature-culture-architecture and theorizes the concept of cultural
sustainability and culturally sustainable architecture. It
identifies four key themes in Chinese philosophy: Harmony with
Heaven, Harmony with Earth, Harmony with Humans, and Harmony with
Self, along with Greek philosopher Aristotle's physics: form,
space, matter, and time, it sets them as criteria to evaluate the
renewed and new courtyard housing projects constructed in China
since the 1990s. Using an innovative architectural and social
science approach, this book examines the political, economic,
social, and spatial factors that affect cultural sustainability.
Supported by a multiplicity of data including: field surveys,
interviews with residents, architects, and planners, time diaries,
drawings, photos, planning documents, observation notes, and real
estate brochures, the book proposes new courtyard garden house
design strategies that promote healthy communities and human care
for one another, a concept that is universally applicable. The
volume is a first opportunity to take a holistic view, to encompass
eastern and western, tangible and intangible, cultures in the
theorization of cultural sustainability and culturally sustainable
architecture. It is a comprehensive contribution to architectural
theory.
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