A Study on the Spatial Prototype of Traditional Chinese Academy Architectures Based on Historial Image Analysis

Abstract

The academy is a historically educational and cultural establishment that dates back to the Tang Dynasty in ancient China as a
private school. The traditional academy architecture is the academy’s material vehicle. The ancient document “Chronicles of the Academy” contains detailed information about the historical academy. History images are included in these records, intuitively depicting the
arrangement of the buildings and their relationship to one another and providing great assistance for the study of the architecture of the academy. Nonetheless, there is still a need for the academic community to make extensive use of the academy’s architectural archives. Many historical images of the academy are used as primary source material in this research. By identifying and interpreting the historical images, the
spatial layout prototype A of the academy with “the lecture hall in the middle and the ancestral temple on top” was finally analyzed, and two
variations of prototype A were analyzed.