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From Syntax to Plot the spatial language of a Chinese garden Proceedings of the 7th International Space Syntax Symposium Edited by Daniel Koch, Lars Marcus and Jesper Steen, Stockholm: KTH, 2009. 067 Shao Ming Lu University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture, London, United Kingdom shaoming.lu@ucl.ac.uk; meas@ Keywords: spatial language; plot; syntax; Chinese garden Abstract The essay presents a new spatial language of gardens, space plot. It uses Yuyuan, a classical garden in Shanghai, as a case study to describe and analyse the complex structure in different methods of spatial analysis, syntax and plot. By comparison, it points out four main limitations in the process of applying syntactic analysis which is unsuitable to express the meaning of the gardenmaking although it could explore the cognitive complexity of the garden to some extent. Instead, it argues that space plot demonstrates considerably the essence of structure and poetry-configuring of the garden. This new language, through narrative vocabulary, linkage, content and structure, offers an effective approach to linking the physical system with its meaning during the formulating process as well as the cognitive process. Introduction Various devices have been employed to depict Chinese gardens: maps, paintings, drawing, poem, novels, historical records and so on. Generally, Chinese scholars tend to use the language of humanities (e.g. literature and art), rather than that of physical science, to elaborate on the complexity of Chinese gardens (for example, Peng, 1986; Dunzhun Liu, 1987; Ji, 1988; Qiheng Wang, 1992; Tong, 1997; Guixiang Wang, 1998; Zhu, 1998; Zhou, 1999; Chongzhou Cheng, 2002; Feng, 2003; Tingfeng Liu, 2005; Andong Lu, and Penz, 2005; Shen, 2008). Western world has shown an interest in Chinese gardens since the seventeenth century. For example, William Temple introduced Chinese Garden in his essay Upon the Gardens of Epicurus (Hunt and Wills, 1975). Keswick (1978) clearly exami