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Modern architecture has become increasingly concerned about the integration and harmony between the natural and built environments. Terms like environmental protection and management, energy conservation, renewable energy, sustainability and ecology have been pouring into our ears on a daily basis. In fact, all these concepts are not new from an ancient Chinese point of view; Feng Shui or more academically, Kan Yu, is exactly the traditional Chinese wisdom aimed at creating harmony between the environment, buildings and people.
Feng Shui is the philosophy which has influenced traditional building design in China for thousands of years. Based on Scientific Feng Shui for the Built Environment: Fundamentals and Case Studies published in 2011, this enhanced new edition has further taken into account the enhancements and new inputs in theories and applications. Emphasis is placed on two themes, sustainability and science. New case studies regarding sustainable design as viewed from a Feng Shui perspective, and integrated applications of different architectural models and their associations with Feng Shui concepts are added and elaborated. On science, other than exploring the new development of particle physics in relation to Feng Shui studies, a totally new approach to numerology and Luo Shu study based on modern linear algebra may bring readers new insight into the possibility of researching Feng Shui mathematically, in addition to the use of spherical trigonometry.
This book offers a remarkable in-depth view of Feng Shui by integrating the historical theories with scientific explorations and examples of applications. It once again demonstrates that Feng Shui can be studied scientifically, and eventually scientific Feng Shui may become a new field of science in the academic world as well as a professional and orthodox discipline of architectural design for the built environment.
作者簡介
Dr Michael Y. MAK
He is a Senior Lecturer and Program Convenor for the postgraduate property programs at the School of Architecture and Built Environment, the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has been teaching in architecture, building, construction management and property courses in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Michael is the co-founder of the International Conferences on Scientific Feng Shui and the Built Environment, and was the Chair of the Technical Committee of the Conference from 2005 to 2009. He is also the founding editor of the Academic Journal of Feng Shui (www.AJoFengShui.co.nf) since 2013, which is a peer-reviewed open-access online journal that publishes original research articles in all aspects of Feng Shui.
Dr Albert T. SO
CEng, FCIBSE, FIMechE, FSOE, FIPlantE, SMIEEE, SCME, is the founder and was the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference series on Scientific Feng Shui and the Built Environment conducted at the City University of Hong Kong from 2005 to 2009. He is an electrical and building services engineer by profession and had been Lecturer/Associate Professor/Adjunct Professor of the City University of Hong Kong. He is now Honorary Visiting Professor of the University of Northampton in England and Honorary Associate Professor of the University of Hong Kong. Currently, he is Vice President of Asian Institute of Intelligent Buildings and Director of Asian Institute of Built Environment promoting education and research related to the built environment.
1. Introduction
PART A Scientific Feng Shui
2. Science and Feng Shui
3. Scientific Methods and Feng Shui Study
4. Studying Feng Shui
5. The Development of Feng Shui
PART B Form School Approach
6. Culture and Architecture
7. Theories of the Form School
8. Form School Practice in the Built Environment
9. Conceptual Framework for the Form School Approach
10. Case Studies: Feng Shui Villages in Hong Kong
11. Case Studies: Sustainable Design and Feng Shui
12. Case Studies: Feng Shui Integrated Applications for Built Environment Analysis
PART C Compass School Approach
13. Numerology and the Compass School
14. The Luo Shu and the Modern Linear Algebra
15. Modern Physics and the Compass School
16. Theories of the Compass School
17. The Method of Eight Mansions
18. The Method of Flying Stars
19. Case Studies: Applications of the Compass School
20. Case Studies: Applications of Shared Guas
21. Conclusion
