Generative Design in the Architecture of Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Tuesday, 23 Apr 2019 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Tracy Miller is an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt University, where she teaches the history of arts and architecture in Asia, with a special emphasis on the ritual and garden architecture of Imperial China and Japan. Her research focuses on the impact of belief in divinity on the production of art, architecture, and spaces for spiritual encounters. She is the author of The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci and is currently writing a book on the use of Indic design strategies in the Buddhist temple architecture of Early Medieval and Medieval China. Donald R. Benson Memorial LectureThe Donald B. Benson Memorial honors Donald Benson, a former Iowa State English professor, who had longterm interest in the relationship among the three intellectual disciplines of literal, science, and the arts.
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Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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