From Texas Rangers to Cooper Union: Spatial Thought and Spatial Exercise of the Nine Square Problem
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School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, P. R. China

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    Beaux-Arts composition is based on the logic of mathematics and geometry to achieve the causal transformation of space and form, and the creation and expression of cubist visual art has influenced the spatial cognition of modern architecture that started from the plane. The education reform of the Texas Rangers balanced between Beaux-Arts education and Bauhaus education, pointing to the "spatial education" of "modern architecture can be taught", and then turn to the spatial exercise of architectural autonomy. From the Texas Rangers education to the Cooper Union education, as an architecture design basic course, the Nine Square Problem has become a composition paradigm of modern architecture, a powerful tool for modern architectural spatial teaching, a formal language and a kind of architectural thought, and its spatial thought and spatial exercise have been focused on autonomous generation of architectural space to make architecture a language that needs to be learned, through abstract forms and spatial reasoning of the relationship between parts and the whole. This article starts from the question of the Nine Square Problem, it presents modern architecture teaching centered on space by sorting out the spatial ideas and training of the Nine Square Problem. Through the study of the Nine Square Problem, it explores the logic of architectural space, freely studies the relationship between space and structure, and promotes the progress of architectural spatial teaching.

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张庆顺,刘闫妍.从德州骑警到库珀联盟:九宫格问题的空间思想与空间训练[J].高等建筑教育,2025,34(6):132~145

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