从地理视野切入：建筑、城乡与景观

地理知识的习得在历史上曾经对成就人们认知世界、认知环境、认知自我发挥了重要作用；现代形成的建筑学、城乡规划学、风景园林学等学科的内涵与外延，都和人们逐渐对地理知识理解的加强和深化有关；当代大类建筑学的发展甚至已关乎宇宙。

在近期建筑设计理论领域里，库哈斯及其团队1995年出版的《小、中、大、超大》挑战了当时的地域主义思想，将建筑学与全球化相联系，探索一种“超大”的建筑构思与设计策略。三十年后的今天，状态和议题的变化，凸显了其内在价值：建筑学与地理尺度、状态和视野的交叉介入。一种大类建筑学的思考框架，跨越了小与大、地域与全球的问题分野；它使建筑学介入了大地、地球、地貌、风景等等不同尺度的地理范畴的问题。建筑历史与理论领域也许进入了一个新的关于地理学的转折：在文化地理学和文化批判理论合力下，建筑研究愈加关心基础设施与风景地貌，殖民历史与资源开采，制图方法与民俗图绘，等等议题。可以说，库哈斯暗示的地理学，不仅是全球的，也是具体的、地方的，涉及到其中的形式与动力。在生态危机与地缘重组下的今天，建筑学内外的地理问题，需要我们深入探讨。

中国东南大学与英国纽卡斯尔大学联合主办的“东纽论坛”，从“建筑学与知识问题”的核心关系入手，推动建筑学关于“历史”、“地理”和“视图”三组问题的深入研究。在2024、2025年成功举办关于“历史”的研讨会之后，我们在此召集第三次研讨会。此次2026年的国际学术研讨会，从“地理”视野、知识和范畴切入，并由此介入全球、地方、生态、后殖民等相关议题。我们希望探讨大类建筑学的地理问题、状态、理论、方法、观念和想象。我们诚邀学者、建筑师阐发自己的研究和思考，探讨以下但不限以下议题：

· 地貌、建筑与地域主义

· 联系城乡的风景山水文化

· 疆界、边沿与跨国互动

· 矿产、农业与生产地理学

· 开采与殖民历史

· 基础设施建筑学

· 穿越建筑和人造或自然环境的大小尺度之问题

· 地理制图、民俗图志和各种空间描绘法

· 关于空间、土地、资源和建设的理论

In a Geographic Perspective: Architecture, Planning and Landscape

The gaining of geographic knowledge has played a significant role in shaping our understandings of the world, the environment and ourselves; the formation of modern disciplines of architecture, town planning and landscape, internally and externally, has also benefited from the growth of our geographic knowledge; a broader definition of architecture today can stretch further, to a wider frame of questions concerning nature and the cosmos.

In recent design thinking, the publication of S, M, L, XL by Rem Koolhaas and his team in 1995 challenged regionalisms of the time, explored architectural entanglement with globalization, and formulated an architecture of the ‘extra-large’. Thirty years on, the changing conditions today arguably reveal its underlying insight even more clearly: architecture’s engagement with geographic conditions of any scales – small or (extra) large. With today’s complex issues in mind, we need to examine architecture’s entanglement with the geographic, concerning earth, planet, topography, and landscape, of all scales. There has been, perhaps, a geographical turn in architectural history and theory in the last decade: combining cultural geographies and cultural theories, understanding architecture in terms of infrastructures and landscapes, highlighting forces of colonization and extraction, engaging with mappings and cartographies. Koolhaas invoked geographies not just of globalism, but also contextual forms and forces. Today – in a time of ecological crisis and geopolitical reformulation – the problematic of geography in and beyond architecture prompts careful examination.

The SN Forum, jointly organized by Newcastle UK and the Southeast China, aims to examine contemporary conditions of ‘architecture and knowledge’ in three thematic areas – ‘history’, ‘geography’ and ‘visuality’. Having successfully hosted the first and second symposiums in 2024 and 2025 on ‘history’, we are now organizing the third in 2026. This symposium aims to engage globalist, regionalist, ecological and post-colonial thinking by focusing on the geographic in architecture. We hope to explore geographic problems, conditions, thematics, methodologies, conceptualisations and imaginations in architecture and beyond. We warmly invite you to share studies and reflections on issues including but not limited to:

· Topography and regionalism

· Landscape through the urban and the rural

· Borders, divisions and transnationalism

· Geographies of mining, agriculture and production

· Extraction and colonialism

· Architecture of infrastructures

· Scales in architecture and the built and/or natural environment

· Mappings and cartographies (of space of all scales, in modern or traditional ways)

· Conceptualization on space, land, resource and (non) human construction