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No two buildings in the world are alike. This is because their Cultural DNA, defined by the combination of the building’s setting (environment), the owner, the patron (master/designer), and the craftsman (workman), is unique. Based on the cultural context of an architectural heritage, the attributes can be categorized into three aspects: architectural technology, socio-cultural and associate environment, and physical environment. These three aspects can be also referred to the threefold of human being between environment, supernatural, and human being (other people). It provides a possible consideration for applying the cultural DNA to architectural conservation.
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The definition of DNA is quoted from http://biology.about.com/od/geneticsglossary/g/DNA.htm (2015/10/1).
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The original text in Chinese is “三十輻,共一轂,當其無,有車之用。埏埴以為器,當其無,有器之用。鑿戶牖以為室,當其無,有室之用。故有之以為利,無之以為用。”(《道德經·第十一章》).
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Yuanye (園冶, yuán yě), translated as The Craft of Gardens, is a 1631 work consisting of three volumes on garden design by Ji Cheng (計成, 1582–1642) of the late Ming Dynasty in ancient China. It is considered the definitive work on garden design of the many produced during that period, and has been labeled as the first monograph dedicated to garden architecture in the world, and among the great masterpieces of garden literature (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuanye (2015/10/1).
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The English translation refers to Kile [4: 145–146]. The original Chinese quotation (世之興造,專主鳩匠,獨不聞三分匠‚ 七分主人之諺乎?非主人也,能主之人也。) is from the beginning of the first volume titled “On Construction” (興造論) of Yuanye.
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Chiou, Sc. (2017). Architectural Conservation Based on Its Cultural DNA. In: Lee, JH. (eds) Morphological Analysis of Cultural DNA. KAIST Research Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2329-3_3
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