ATTCAT: The Annotation and Translation of Traditional Chinese Architecture Terminology

The thesaurus and dictionary of Chinese architectural terminology on Architectura Sinica is currently being enhanced through the ATTCAT project. Participants in this international, multi-university research forum seek to annotate, translate, and illustrate historical terms used in describing and building traditional structures in China. Sponsored by Southeast University, Nanjing, and initiated by scholars working at Southeast University and Vanderbilt, ATTCAT participants from universities in China, Japan, the US, Germany, and Austria gather for annual workshops to discuss research on particular terms and collate parallel terms in Chinese and other languages (primarily English, but also Japanese and German). After revision, the fully annotated research notes are published on Architectura Sinica. Brief versions of select notes are also available on the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT).

ATTCAT 2018 Participants

1. 白颖 BAI Ying (Assistant Professor, Southeast University, China)
2. 寶璐 BAO Lu (Master’s student, Southeast University, China)
3. 金田 Campbell, Aurelia (Assistant Professor, Boston College, USA)
4. 陈麓西 CHEN Luxi, Master's student, School of Architecture, Southeast University, China
5. 陳薇 CHEN Wei (Professor, School of Architecture, Southeast University, China)
6. 陳欣濤 CHEN Xintao (Master’s student, School of Architecture, Southeast University, China)
7. 丁伯儀 DING Boyi (Master’s student, School of Architecture, Southeast University, China)
8. 胡石 HU Shi (Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Southeast University, China)
9. 賈亭立 JIA Tingli (Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Southeast University, China)
10. 劉妍 LIU Yan (Junior Fellow, SUSTech Society of Fellows in Liberal Arts, Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
11. 任思捷 REN Sijie (Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Southeast University, China)
12. 梅晨曦 Miller, Tracy (Associate Professor, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University, USA)
13. 孙迎喆 SUN Yingzhe (Master’s student, School of Architecture, Southeast University, China)
14. 唐聪 TANG Cong (JSPS Research Fellow, Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Japan)
15. 楊莞闐 YANG Wantian (Master’s student, School of Architecture, Southeast University, China)
16. 諸葛淨 ZHUGE Jing (Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Southeast University, China)
17. Zwerger, Klaus (Professor, Institute of Architecture and Design, Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

With the additional participation of:

1. 荷雅麗 Harrer, Alexandra (Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China)
2. 肖旻 XIAO Min (Associate Professor, School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, China)
3. 張劍葳 ZHANG Jianwei (Assistant Professor, Peking University, China)
4. 朱光亞 ZHU Guangya (Professor, School of Architecture, Southeast University, China)