What Does a Conservation Architect Do?

The historical building protection engineering specialty was born in Tongji's architecture major. It has the same teaching system, teaching staff and teaching resources, and at the same time, it starts from the professional content of historical protection and refers to the teaching content of similar major foreign universities such as the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University And teaching methods to keep pace with it.

Protection of historic buildings

In our city, old buildings often far exceed the number of new buildings, and quite a few of them have special value and significance. We call them "historical buildings".

Promoting the internationalization of teaching links is an important method for teaching new majors. We make full use of Shanghai's favorable conditions and strive to strengthen international exchanges. We have continued to promote the internationalization of various teaching links through joint design teaching, flexible introduction or short-term introduction of foreign teachers, and lectures. We have not only learned a lot of international The advanced experience of architectural education has also greatly enriched the teaching content and teaching methods, and Tongji's tradition of "compatibility and enrichment" has been further sublimated.

The students of this major often participate in academic activities such as international conferences and inter-school exchanges related to their majors. The first student was also funded by the French Ministry of Culture to visit France to study, not only toured historical cities such as Paris and Marseilles, but also visited the prestigious school of Cheyenne As well as many examples of historical building protection.

According to the specialty's own characteristics and the extension of the professional tradition of architecture, the school divides the cultivation of students' professional ability into two major parts: historical protection and professional ability in architecture.

In terms of the professional ability of architecture, maintain the overall structure of architecture education, and from the goal of ability training, combined with the characteristics and needs of new majors, the overall teaching content of each learning stage is planned, emphasizing the characteristics of each learning stage. The holistic relationship between stage and stage makes each teacher and student involved in professional teaching activities have a clear sense of position. Like the design course of architecture, the design course of the historical building protection engineering major adopts the method of learning by word. Students have their own professional classrooms, and each has his own space for drawing, communication, and modeling. The teacher takes The teaching method of changing maps for everyone and regularly reviewing the maps to fully explore the strengths and potential of each student.

With regard to the curriculum system of history protection, the overall structure of teaching is established through curriculum settings such as Chinese and foreign architectural history, architectural history and theory, and new specialty-specific protection introductions, protection technologies, historical building shapes and crafts, cultural sciences, and sketching. Flexibility of the curriculum. According to the teaching requirements of the training plan, we divide the entire professional course into two parts: compulsory content and limited-choice content. We have set limited courses such as liberal arts, furniture, and furnishings to stimulate students' learning initiative, in order to realize their potential and expertise. The role of creating conditions. Most professional courses are also offered for the first time in China. These courses include both theoretical courses taught in the classroom, as well as practical and technical courses that require overseas inspections and protection of field research. For example, in the 2007 protection technology course, the original British Consulate building with a history of over 150 years on the Bund is a research object. Based on the surveying and mapping of old buildings, the historical evolution and style positioning of the building were studied in depth. The structure and material are analyzed in depth. Teachers and students are faced with the task of constructing new courses and exploring new fields. Although the responsibility is great, it is also very interesting.

From the following training snippets, we can see that the students of this major have a rich and colorful life, both humanities and technology, and a combination of theory and practice. The design of basic homework in 2004, taking the ancient town of Yuliang, Anhui as the base, and conducting site survey ; 2005 Protective Technology Course hires Italy

Cultivate a systematic grasp based on the basic theory and skills of architecture

Architectural preliminary, fine arts, historical building shape and technology, architectural design, architectural history, construction technology, protection technology, art history, cultural and cultural topics, etc.

Can be engaged in teaching, scientific research, design and urban management. ^[1]