At 23:12 on July 15, 2022, Mr. Meng Zhaozhen, Chinese landscape architecture planning and design educator, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering , Beijing Forestry University professor and doctoral supervisor Qiangu, the industry was shocked as soon as the news came out. My condolences and respect to Mr. Meng.
Mr. Meng Zhaozhen
Mr. Meng Zhaozhen stayed at Beijing Agricultural University to teach after graduating from the gardening major in 1956. Later, due to the adjustment of departments, he was incorporated into Beijing Forestry University to engage in garden teaching. He has served as a teaching assistant, lecturer, associate professor, professor, and doctoral student. Tutor and head of the Department of Landscape Architecture; elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999; won the first Forestry Science and Technology Contribution Award in 2004; in 2011, he won the first Chinese Landscape Architecture Society Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mr. Meng Zhaozhen has long been engaged in the teaching and scientific research of garden art, garden design, garden engineering, gardening examples and other courses.
1. Main achievements in teaching
Since 1956, it has always been on the front line of teaching, respecting teachers, teaching and educating people. He has been responsible for teaching professional courses such as drawing geometry , garden history, garden engineering, garden art, garden design "Garden Ye" Examples and Interpretations, and the latter four courses are all the main lecturers. The garden engineering textbooks edited by him are widely used across the country, and a new framework and content of garden art courses and garden design courses featuring Chinese traditional gardens have been established.
planned the content and teaching methods of the teaching links of major professional courses; guided teaching internships, graduation projects and thesis; and opened new courses according to the actual needs of the discipline.
offers example courses on "Yuan Ye" for master's and doctoral students, transforming logical thinking into image thinking, enabling them to understand the true meaning, guide design practice, and reach a high level in terms of teaching quality. During his tenure as the director of the Department of Landscape Architecture and the academic leader of the discipline, he presided over the work of further clarifying training objectives, revising teaching plans and strengthening teaching staff based on national surveys and studies. On the basis of inheritance, a new teaching system for the discipline of landscape architecture planning and design was developed and established. In 1993, the only doctoral program was established in the discipline. In participating in the international undergraduate professional design competition, I personally guided master's and doctoral students in the specific propositions, phase, meaning, layout, analysis and drawing under the general topic of the competition.
The manuscript of "Yuan Yan"
has won the Grand Prize of the World University Student Landscape Architecture Design Competition co-hosted by UNESCO and International Federation of Landscape Architects for three consecutive times since 1991. Later, he guided one of the graduate students studying for a doctoral degree and won the grand prize for this project in the Asia-Pacific region. Since then, the international education materials edited by UNESCO have ranked this subject first in China. Therefore, he received a special award from Beijing Forestry University.
2. Main achievements in landscape architecture design practice
has presided over 36 different types of design tasks at home and abroad, and won many awards. Anyone who presides over the design must personally determine the name of the garden and scenery, conceive the concept, draw the general plan, draft the effects, and write instructions.
conducted field visits and interviewed village elders during the overall design of Crescent Spring in Dunhuang, Gansu Province. Based on the local natural conditions and context, they proposed the design principle of "building houses to drive away sand and digging silt to open up springs", which effectively prevented the danger of the desert moving northward. and make full use of groundwater resources. In the design for the Shenzhen Botanical Garden,
cut off the mountain streams to form a "fairy lake". An artificial island, Yaozhou, was built in the lake with water as the center. Bamboo reed depths, mountain pond fairy crossings, and reed rural crossings were opened up according to local conditions. , Full of Qingqu, Qugang Huifang, Wild Navigation on Shantang, Rainforest Weigou, Wutong Villa and Tingtao Yushuang Pavilion and other attractions. With clever borrowing, organized layout, and subtle reasoning skills, it integrates the content of plant science, the national style of traditional Chinese freehand natural landscape gardens, local characteristics, and the content of modern social life, creating the characteristics of a new garden, and thus winning the title The only garden design prize in Shenzhen City in 1993, and won the third prize of the former Ministry of Construction's Excellent Design Award. The environmental design of
Beijing Garden Apartment won the first prize of the former Ministry of Forestry Design Award. At the invitation of Kyung Hee University in South Korea, we completed the Chinese garden design plan for garden exchanges between China, Japan and South Korea.In rockery design, the technique of hot-making polystyrene grease to make rockery models is created, which is light-weight and realistic. Together with China Landscape Architecture Design Center, we completed the design of Beijing Olympic Park Linquan Gaozhi rockery.
Mr. Meng Zhaozhen’s rockery design model
3. Main achievements in scientific research and treatises
Professor Meng Zhaozhen is interested in studying the systematic theory of traditional Chinese garden art, combining the study of traditional cultural theory with on-the-spot observation and design practice of landscape architecture, surveying, drawing, Photography uses modern scientific knowledge and methods to understand and develop traditional Chinese garden art.
In 1985, Meng Zhaozhen wrote "Summer Mountain Manor Forestry Art" (Forbidden City Press)
and has published more than 30 treatises at home and abroad. Among them, domestic experts gave extremely high comments to "Praise to the Theory of Gardening Art in Summer Resort" (second prize for scientific and technological achievements of the Ministry of Forestry) and "A Brief Knowledge of Beihai Rockery". The traditional Chinese garden art and the rockery skills in it are both It is a difficult research topic in this discipline.
The core of Mr. Meng Zhaozhen’s design ideas
Mr. Meng deeply felt the preciousness of thousands of years of cultural accumulation. In order to carry forward the national cultural tradition, he learned from many experts and studied hard, and achieved initial gratifying results. He integrated the theory of traditional Chinese garden art and The techniques are summarized as clear purpose, name asking, phase location, borrowing scenery, conception, layout, rationale and aftertaste, which have been widely recognized.
Let’s look back on his life:
The early development of new territory in Youhuang (1932-1956)
Mr. Meng Zhaozhen was born in Wuhan and studied at Chongqing Nankai Middle School. In 1952, he came to Beijing to study in the "Gardening Group" and graduated from university in 1956. . He has been closely connected with landscape architecture since the establishment of the discipline, and has witnessed the vigorous development of landscape architecture from its professional establishment to a national first-level discipline and its global expansion.
Mr. Meng Zhaozhen’s relationship with the gardening profession mainly has the following two clues:
1. Opening up the world and establishing the discipline. With the efforts of Mr. Wang Juyuan and Mr. Wu Liangyong, Tsinghua University and Beijing Agricultural University jointly launched the "Gardening Group" major. It is the first independent modern gardening major in New China and has become the development of China's landscape architecture industry. A milestone; it is also the predecessor of the discipline of Chinese landscape architecture, laying the foundation for the formation of a comprehensive landscape discipline with Chinese characteristics.
2. By chance, the fire will be passed down from generation to generation. Because of his love for Peking Opera , Mr. Meng dreamed of studying at the University of Opera in Beijing. However, opera did not enroll students at that time, so he became the second batch of students recruited by the gardening group. From the time he graduated as an undergraduate to teaching at the school, he has always been on the front line of teaching, scientific research and practice, preaching, teaching and solving doubts for students. His love for Peking Opera art and his persistence in the cause of landscape architecture have contributed to his profound artistic life.
On October 9, 1951, the approval document for the establishment of the garden organization was issued.
In 1956, Meng Zhaozhen graduated from Beijing Agricultural University and received a bachelor's degree in gardening from Beijing Agricultural University. Graduated from the university's gardening major, he is the first graduate to receive a complete four-year teaching plan. He stayed at the school to teach and transferred to Beijing Forestry University until now. In the more than 20 years after graduating from university and before the reform and opening up, he took on extensive teaching tasks in gardening courses, pursued excellence in his master's degree, and made outstanding achievements in the field of rock research.
Mr. Meng’s scholarship, teaching and life experience at this stage mainly have the following three clues:
1. The teacher’s kindness is like the sea, and a preliminary exploration of the rockery. Influenced by his mentor Mr. Wang Juyuan, he was determined to devote himself to the study of traditional Chinese landscape architecture principles, and focused on the most difficult rockery to learn. From "A Brief Knowledge of Beihai Rockery", "A Preliminary Exploration into the Art of Rockery Sketch" to "A Brief Explanation of Rockery" and other articles, we have witnessed the gradual improvement of his rockery research results.
2. Teaching by words and deeds can lead to thousands of miles. In his early years, he taught many undergraduate courses and laid a foundation of erudition. At the same time, he emphasized "traveling thousands of miles" and led students to on-site internships.He traveled all over the country and constructed a vivid garden theory.
3. Live and work in peace and contentment, and cultivate both culture and sports. At this stage, he started a family, actively participated in various cultural and sports activities after teaching, and lived a colorful life.
In 1964, the first academic paper "A Preliminary Study on the Art of Mountain and Stone Sketch" was published
In the 1960s, "Mustard Garden Painting Book" manuscripts of mountain and stone copying and famous garden copying manuscripts
"Bacon Casting Soul" calligraphy
Knowledge and practice are in harmony with each other to teach and study (1980 -1999)
The last 20 years of the 20th century were an important stage in which Mr. Meng Zhaozhen kept pace with the three levels of teaching, scientific research and practice and achieved remarkable results. First of all, at the level of research on the history of gardens, in order to learn the design art of Chinese classical gardens , he knew and acted in harmony and conducted in-depth research on northern royal, private and temple gardens, especially summer resorts. In the early 1980s, he led his students to go deep into many long-abandoned ruins in the mountainous area, and carried out restoration research for the first time based on historical documents and field surveying. He overcame difficulties and obstacles, filled the research gaps in the villa, drew a large number of drawings and produced multiple restoration models. He created two classic articles and books, "In Praise of the Art of Summer Resort" and "The Art of Summer Resort".
htmlSince the 1980s, he has invested a lot of energy in teaching, using teaching to promote academic research, and the two complement each other. Not only has he made outstanding achievements in teaching courses such as "Garden Engineering" and "Garden Art Explanation" through his own hard work, making him the "backbone" of the subject education system, but also with his long-term international vision, he has gone abroad to participate in After the meeting, he took the lead in guiding students to participate in the international college student design competition and win awards, winning honors for the motherland and laying a solid foundation for the international influence of Beilin landscape architecture.On a practical level, he contributed to the wave of reform and opening up. In the early 1980s, he presided over the design of the Shenzhen Fairy Lake Landscape Botanical Garden and won many awards. This project left a strong mark on his design career. Pen. With the above-mentioned outstanding achievements, on the eve of the millennium, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and became a leading figure in the academic world.
In 1985, Meng Zhaozhen wrote "Forestry Art of Summer Resort" (Forbidden City Press)
In the 1970s, the manuscript of the design of the mountain stream behind Jinshan Temple in Summer Resort
Restoration model of mountain scenic spots in Summer Resort
" "Steady, strong, Shen, good at innovation" imitates the Song Dynasty and "Imitates the Song Dynasty" Zijue"
987, "Yuan Road Project" manuscript 986, "Garden Ye Examples" manuscript Shenzhen Xianhu Botanical Garden real scene and sand table model
Wenqin Garden Shouzheng Innovation (2000 to present)
This section mainly displays the 21st century Since then, Mr. Meng Zhaozhen has made comprehensive achievements in gardening theory, project practice, calligraphy, painting, drama and teaching.
Gardening theory includes the important domestic and foreign commendations and major awards Mr. Meng Zhaozhen received during this period, the rich theoretical results and public speeches based on many years of landscape architecture research and practice. In terms of the practice of the
project, it includes many important achievements and extremely valuable process documents of Mr. Meng Zhaozhen’s landscape planning and design practice during this period, such as deduction manuscripts and rockery hot samples.
In terms of calligraphy, painting and drama, it contains Mr. Meng Zhaozhen’s precious calligraphy, paintings and drama performance images from this period, which fully illustrates the profound influence of profound cultural literacy and rich artistic categories on this landscape architect master. In the orderly inheritance section, multiple photos of teachers and students in different forms are used to show that the landscape architecture career that he devoted his efforts has been passed down from the past and has successors.
In 2004, Meng Zhaozhen was awarded the Forestry Science and Technology Contribution Award; in 2011, Meng Zhaozhen was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Landscape Architecture by the Chinese Landscape Architecture Society for the first time. "Linquan Gaozhi" rockery model and real sceneBeijing Garden Expo "Shengshi Qingyin" rockery model and real scene
Yuanye Garden scenic spot design manuscript; Yuanye Garden aerial view
Calligraphy: "Keeping integrity and innovation", "Mountains and flowing water"
" "Green Waters and Green Mountains with Clear Sounds"
Inherited in an orderly manner: what has been passed down from the past is followed by others
Mr. Meng Zhaozhen is a famous Chinese landscape gardening educator, theorist and practitioner. It has been skillfully combined with the practical problems faced by the Chinese landscape architecture industry today and has achieved remarkable achievements. He is a recognized master figure in the Chinese landscape architecture community.
We are full of sadness at his passing. At the same time, Mr. Meng’s life has also set a shining example full of integrity for the majority of garden practitioners. It will surely inspire a large number of people who are working hard on the front line of China’s landscape architecture industry and contribute to the development of landscape architecture. make a contribution.
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