Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2023
Eugene Wang
The Chinese stupa-tower is a distinct architectural medium. It stages and choreographs disparate images either through its external or internal decorative programs or the deposits interred inside. More importantly, it is keyed to the conceptual core of a biological extinction and imaginary postmortem scenography. The course follows the development from early memorial towers in Buddhist caves to stupa-towers in the Forbidden City.