文化根基：起源、度量与营构
——纪念约瑟夫·里克沃特诞辰一百周年国际学术会议
Cultural Foundations: Origins, Measures, Fabrications
--In Honor of Joseph Rykwert's 100th birthday
亚洲建筑档案中心
Asian Architectural Archive Center
东南大学建筑国际化示范学院
Architecture Internationalization Demonstration School, Southeast University
东南大学建筑学院
School of Architecture, Southeast University
戴维·莱瑟巴罗
史永高
2026.04.05 - 04.06
04.05, 08:30 am - 17:30 pm (UCT+8)
04.06, 08:30 am - 16:00 pm (UCT+8)
（线下）亚洲建筑档案中心，东南大学
（线上）Zoom会议室
ZOOM Meeting
主旨 / THEME
Architecture emerges from—and in turn bears witness to—the cultural practices through which societies imagine origins, establish systems of measure, and fabricate environments capable of sustaining shared life. Through such practices, human communities give spatial and symbolic form to memory, authority, and collective aspiration. In periods of profound transformation—as today, amid rapid technological development, environmental uncertainty, and the growing influence of artificial intelligence on architectural practice and education—the cultural foundations of architecture call for renewed examination.
“Cultural Foundations: Origins, Measures, and Fabrications” brings together scholars and practitioners to consider architecture not primarily as object or technique, but as a mode of cultural practice. The conference invites contributions that address beginnings understood as acts of interpretation rather than historical givens; measures understood as forms of judgment through which order becomes intelligible; and fabrications understood as processes through which material and symbolic worlds are continually produced and reconfigured. These themes are intended both to resonate with enduring architectural concerns and to encourage new lines of investigation across disciplinary and intellectual boundaries.
Held on the occasion of the centenary of Joseph Rykwert’s birth (1926–2024) and hosted at Southeast University in Nanjing—home to the Asian Architectural Archive Center, where his personal library is being permanently housed—the conference is conceived not simply as an act of commemoration, but as an opportunity to engage the questions that animated his scholarship. Among the most influential architectural historians and theorists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Rykwert consistently challenged reductive, technocratic, and stylistic understandings of architecture. Across writings ranging from studies of the primitive hut and ancient ritual to reflections on modern urbanism, he articulated architecture as a fundamentally cultural practice through which societies give spatial, symbolic, and institutional form to their understanding of the world. Drawing on anthropology, history, philosophy, and architectural theory, his work demonstrated how built form mediates between nature and culture, event and institution, memory and invention. Architecture thus emerges as a medium through which cultures establish order, transmit meaning across generations, and negotiate moments of crisis and transformation.
Participants are invited to approach Rykwert’s writings as points of departure rather than objects of exegesis. A book, essay, or even a brief passage may serve as the basis for arguments that extend, reconsider, or critically test the lines of inquiry he helped to establish. In this sense, the conference seeks to be at once celebratory and forward looking: acknowledging an intellectual inheritance while pursuing what remains unresolved or newly visible under present conditions.
By convening within an archive that both preserves and activates Rykwert’s intellectual legacy, the conference affirms his central insight that architecture participates in the making of culture rather than merely reflecting prevailing taste or technological capacity. Architecture is thus understood as an ongoing cultural project—one in which foundations are continually reinterpreted, measures recalibrated, and the environments through which societies understand themselves continually refabricated.
建筑产生于具体的文化实践，也记录并见证这些实践。正是在这些实践中，人类社会想象自身的起源，确立度量与秩序，并营构维系共同生活的环境。借助这些过程，共同体将记忆、权威与集体愿景转化为空间与象征形式。当今世界正处在深刻变动之中，技术迅猛发展，环境不确定性增加，人工智能也开始深刻影响建筑实践与建筑教育。在这样的背景下，重新思考建筑的文化基础显得尤为必要。
“文化根基：起源、度量与营构”（Cultural Foundations: Origins, Measures, and Fabrications）国际会议汇聚来自不同国家的学者与实践者，旨在将建筑理解为一种文化实践的方式，而非主要作为对象或技术加以讨论。讨论主要围绕三个相互关联的问题展开：将“起源”理解为一种诠释性行为，而非既定的历史事实；将“度量”理解为一种判断的形式，通过它秩序得以被理解和显现；将“营构”理解为一种过程，在这一过程中，物质与象征的世界不断被生产与重构。通过这些讨论，会议既回应建筑学长期关注的核心问题，也希望推动跨越学科与思想边界的新研究路径。
本次会议适逢约瑟夫·里克沃特（1926–2024）诞辰一百周年，由位于南京的东南大学主办。该校的亚洲建筑档案中心亦为其个人藏书的永久收藏地。会议不仅是对一位重要学者的纪念，更希望借此机会重新讨论贯穿其学术工作的核心问题。作为20世纪及21世纪初最具影响力的建筑史家与理论家之一，里克沃特始终反对将建筑简单理解为技术问题或风格问题。从对“原始棚屋”与古代仪式的研究，到对现代城市问题的思考，他始终强调建筑一种根本性的文化实践：通过建筑，人类社会为自身的世界理解赋予空间、象征与制度的形式。在他的研究中，人类学、历史学、哲学与建筑理论等多种学科视角彼此交汇。他的工作揭示了建成环境如何在自然与文化、事件与制度、记忆与创造之间发挥中介作用。由此，建筑不仅是物质环境，更是一种文化媒介。不同文化通过建筑建立秩序、在世代之间传递意义，并在社会转型与危机时刻重新调整自身的制度与想象。
会议鼓励与会者将里克沃特的著述视为研究的起点，而不是单纯的诠释对象。一部著作、一篇文章，甚至一段文字，都可成为展开新讨论的契机。研究者可以在此基础上延伸、修正或批判性地检验他所开辟的探索之路。由此，本次会议既是纪念，也是面向未来：在继承其思想遗产的同时，继续探索那些在当代条件下仍未解决或重新涌现的问题。
在亚洲建筑档案中心这一保存并不断激活其学术遗产的机构中举办本次会议，也再次强调了里克沃特的核心洞见：建筑积极参与文化的生成，而非只是时代趣味或技术能力的反映。由此，建筑可以被理解为一项持续展开的文化事业。在这一过程中，基础不断被重新诠释，度量不断被重新校准，而人类社会赖以理解自身的环境也不断被重新营构。
主席 / CHAIRS
戴维·莱瑟巴罗
David Leatherbarrow
东南大学建筑国际化示范学院教授、外籍院长
亚洲建筑档案中心馆长
Professor, Foreign Dean, Architecture Internationalization
Demonstration School, Southeast University
Director, Asian Architectural Archive Center
史永高
SHI Yonggao
东南大学建筑学院教授
亚洲建筑档案中心副馆长
Professor, School of Architecture, Southeast University
Associate Director, Asian Architectural Archive Center
（按演讲顺序排序 in lecturing sequence）
April 5 4月5日
哈佛大学设计研究生院教授、前院长
Professor and Former Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Design
边际之物：再论约瑟夫·里克沃特的设计哲思
Liminal Objects: Rethinking Joseph Rykwert’s Reflections on Design
达卡孟加拉建筑、景观与聚落研究所主任
Director-General, Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements in Dhaka
建筑想象中的最后棚屋
The Last Hut in Architectural Imagination
东南大学建筑国际化示范学院助理教授
Assistant Professor, Architecture Internationalization Demonstration School, Southeast University
题目 / TITLE
柱（列）之舞、合唱队与宇宙之舞
Dancing Column(s), Chorus, and the Cosmic Dance
剑桥大学古典建筑研究中心教授
Professor, Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture, University of Cambridge
题目 / TITLE
建筑与艺术中的模仿，从原始到古典，经现代直至人工智能
Imitation in Architecture and Art, from Nature to Classical Antiquity through Modernism and on to AI
中国科学院院士、同济大学建筑与城市规划学院教授
Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University
题目 / TITLE
风土建筑：如何存续再生？
Vernacular Architecture：How to Maintain and Regenerate?
宾夕法尼亚大学韦茨曼设计学院教授
Professor, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
题目 / TITLE
方法与情感：对里克沃特的延伸
Method and Emotion: Rykwert by Extension
宾夕法尼亚大学韦茨曼设计学院副教授、建筑学博士项目主席
Associate Professor and Graduate Group Chair of the PhD Program, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
题目 / TITLE
阅读里克沃特，书写建筑：作为整体艺术的学术
Reading Rykwert, Writing Architecture: Scholarship as Gesamtkunstwerk
上海交通大学设计学院院长、光启讲席教授
Dean and Guangqi Chair Professor of the School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
里克沃特今天如是说？在人工智能的背景下怀念一位真切的人文主义者
What Would Rykwert Say Today? Remembering the Genuine Humanist in the Age of AI
剑桥大学前设计学教授、埃里克·帕里建筑事务所创始人
Former Professor of Design, University of Cambridge
Founder of Eric Parry Architects
《城之理念》的持久影响
The Recurring Influence of “The Idea of a Town”
April 6 4月6日
东南大学建筑国际化示范学院教授、外籍院长
亚洲建筑档案中心馆长
Professor, Foreign Dean, Architecture Internationalization Demonstration School, Southeast University
Director, Asian Architectural Archive Center
在边界之处
At the Threshold of. . .
波特兰州立大学建筑学院教授、院长
Professor and Director of School of Architecture, Portland State University
开敞式楼梯的起源与传播
The Genesis and Dissemination of the Open Stair
首尔国立大学建筑与建筑工程系教授
Professor, Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Seoul National University
弥合气候、伦理与建筑：走向共同生活的模式更新
Suturing Climate, Ethics and Architecture: Toward Renewed Patterns of Living Together
东南大学建筑学院教授
亚洲建筑档案中心副馆长
Professor, School of Architecture, Southeast University
Associate Director, Asian Architectural Archive Center
题目 / TITLE
不安的基石：建筑与文化的生成
Unsettled Foundations: Architecture and the Making of Culture
东南大学建筑学院教授
中国建筑学会建筑评论学术委员会副主任
Professor, School of Architecture, Southeast University
Deputy Director, Architectural Review Committee of the Architectural Society of China
写作：原始棚屋
Writing: Primitive Hut
东南大学建筑学院教授
Professor, School of Architecture, Southeast University
题目 / TITLE
农耕文明与中国早期建筑、聚落与制度
Agricultural Civilization and Early Chinese Architecture, Settlements and Systems
东南大学建筑国际化示范学院副教授
亚洲建筑档案中心副馆长
Associate Professor, Architecture Internationalization Demonstration School, Southeast University
Associate Director, Asian Architectural Archive Center
城市之前的海洋
The Sea Before the City
建筑、规划与人类学学者
Scholar in Architecture, Planning, and Anthropology
《城之理念》译后补记
A Due Afterword for Translating “The Idea of a Town”
苏黎世联邦理工学院艺术与建筑史教授
建筑历史与理论研究所所长
东南大学建筑学院兼职教授
Professor of History of Art and Architecture, ETH Zürich
Head of the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta)
Visiting professor, School of Architecture, Southeast University
装饰的必要性
The Necessity of Ornament
（按主持顺序排序 in moderating sequence）
史永高
SHI Yonggao
东南大学建筑学院教授
亚洲建筑档案中心副馆长
Professor, School of Architecture, Southeast University
Associate Director, Asian Architectural Archive Center
童明
TONG Ming
东南大学建筑学院教授
Professor, School of Architecture, Southeast University
朱昊昊
ZHU Haohao
东南大学建筑学院副教授
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Southeast University
赵越
ZHAO Yue
东南大学建筑学院讲师
Lecturer, School of Architecture, Southeast University
学术媒体支持 / 《建筑学报》
ACADEMIC MEDIA SUPPORT / Architectural Journal
黄居正
HUANG Juzheng
《建筑学报》学术总监
Academic Director, Architectural Journal
孙凌波
SUN Lingbo
《建筑学报》副主编
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Architectural Journal
线上会议注册 / ONLINE REGISTRATION
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Participants who wish to attend the conference online are kindly requested to scan the QR code below or complete the registration form and send it to 103009478@seu.edu.cn. Upon receipt, the organization committee will confirm your registration by email and provide further access details for the conference.
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