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The color of the Song Dynasty depicted as "the sky clears after rain and clouds break apart"

I started appreciating Wang Shu's works during my student days. My first graduation trip, which was also my first solo trip, was to Jiangnan, where I visited Wang Shu's Suzhou University Wenzheng Library, the Porcelain House in Jinhua, and the Ningbo Art Museum. These are all early works of Wang. At that time, the China Academy of Art Xiangshan South Campus had not yet been built, but Wang's first three buildings had already established his style. · You can clearly see the influence of these three places in the Version Pavilion: the relationship with the environment in the Suzhou University Library, the earliest use of porcelain tiles in the Porcelain House, and the abstract monolithic form of typological traditional architecture in the Ningbo Art Museum. He established his architectural language very early and was fortunate to catch the era of rapid construction. · Many of his spaces are typological abstractions of Jiangnan gardens. As he himself said about a certain space in Canglang Pavilion, "When I talk about the method of gardens, Cuilinglong is an architectural archetype I realized but did not fully understand. As Mr. Tong Jun said, the utmost winding requires the simplest form, and it is right here." — Cuilinglong and Kanshan Building in Canglang Pavilion, one a horizontal space and the other vertical, are both what Mies referred to as flowing spaces in the Barcelona Pavilion in Germany, yet they are completely imbued with Eastern meaning. Such spaces are ubiquitous in the architecture of the Version Pavilion; the exposed concrete house on page 7 is a clear example. • I also really like his treatment of the Longquan kiln celadon tiles this time. The so-called "the sky clears after rain and clouds break apart" best represents the color of the Song Dynasty, but this highly saturated blue-green is difficult to use. Wang Xin had a failed example before, and the entire door panel even reminded me of the Katsura Imperial Villa in the suburbs of Kyoto. The pine trees are also well planted, and combined with the mountain behind, the "Travelers Among Mountains and Streams" instantly comes to mind, reflecting a very Confucian aesthetic.
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