{"id":17059,"date":"2022-10-16T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T06:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/arch\/?post_type=ac-education&#038;p=17059"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:37:06","slug":"practical-building-conservation-skills-ii-decorative-finishes-qian-ci-jian-nian","status":"publish","type":"ac-education","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/arch\/arclab\/education\/practical-building-conservation-skills-ii-decorative-finishes-qian-ci-jian-nian\/","title":{"rendered":"Decorative Finishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Practical Building Conservation Skills II:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Decorative Finishes \u3010\u526a\u9ecf\u3011<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Programme \u2014\u00a0<\/strong>Masters of Arts in Architectural Conservation (MAArC)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Conducted by \u2014<\/strong> Huang Hsiu Hui; Nikhil Joshi<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_15 wixui-rich-text__text\">AY\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_15 wixui-rich-text__text\">2022\/2023, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_15 wixui-rich-text__text\">Semester 1<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"font_7 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">In this workshop on decorative finishes, Ms Huang Hsiu Hui from Taiwan shared with the students the history, techniques, and repair methodology behind the art of\u00a0qian ci\/jian nian.\u00a0Students had a hand at cutting the pieces, crafting the mortar mix, and assembly of the pieces into a form based on a motif found on the facade of the ArCLab.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_7 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixGuard wixui-rich-text__text\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_7 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Students also had first hand experience conducting a visual survey of the\u00a0qian ci\/jian nian\u00a0located at the Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery, NUS-Baba House, and ArCLab.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17060,"menu_order":0,"template":"","ac-education-category":[12],"class_list":["post-17059","ac-education","type-ac-education","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ac-education-category-past-programme","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/arch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac-education\/17059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/arch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac-education"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/arch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ac-education"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/arch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/arch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ac-education-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/arch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac-education-category?post=17059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}