Theory
Yingzao Fashi Building Standards
Explore in the Atlas →Li Jie's Northern Song system of modular standards (cai-fen), bracket-sets and labour estimation, promulgated 1103.
Tectonics Type Knowledge
Details
- Introduced
- 1103
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Ancestry
- Subject
- Human centred
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawingApprenticeship
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- East asian
Referenced by
- Li Jie 李誡 proposed
- Yingzao Fashi 營造法式 articulates
- A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture articulates
- Annotated Yingzao Fashi (Yingzao Fashi Zhushi 營造法式註釋) articulates
- Liang Sicheng 梁思成 developed
Sources
- Cambridge Architectural History. n.d.. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/architectural-history/article/abs/yingzao-fashi-twelfthcentury-chinese-building-manual/0DF2D645F318E926B9A7C409795D5012.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Yingzao Fashi Building Standards." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theory/yingzao-fashi-system/. Accessed July 17, 2026.