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Making & Constructing Dougong Brackets with Assistant Professor Sheri Lullo
Home: New York, United States
Sheri Lullo is using 3D Printing to create reproductions of traditional Chinese wood structures. Load-bearing timber-framed structures with dougong bracketing are emblematic of traditional Chinese architecture, and their design, construction and variation are prominent themes of Professor Lullo’s course, AAH 204: Chinese Architecture. This project focuses on dougong brackets, a distinguishing feature of traditional palaces, temples and dwellings. Evidenced as early as the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), they are important structural elements made of dou (wooden blocks) and gong (bow-shaped arms or brackets) that serve to support the weight of the roof and to hold all components of the building together.
https://www.union.edu/visual-arts
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Sheri Lullo (Union College Visual Arts)
Professor Lullo’s research focuses on the art and archaeology of early China and integrates various perspectives, including material culture and mortuary analysis, ritual practices, and gender studies. She is interested in the material worlds and everyday lives of the middle to upper elite, and currently working on a project that focuses on toiletry sets found in Warring States through Han Dynasty tombs.
https://www.union.edu/visual-arts/faculty-staff/sheri-lullo
