Eating together. History, culture, and architecture

Milan EXPO 2015 took up dining issue as the theme: "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life". The theme encompassed technology, innovation, culture, traditions and creativity. It's related to every being on this small planet. In the same year, there was another exposition in Shanghai, the Shanghai Urban Space Art Season 2015. During the Shanghai Urban Space Art Season 2015, was also made the exibition "The Beauty in Eating Together". The curators were Italian and Chinese scholars, e.g. Prof. Angelo Bugatti from The University of Pavia, Prof. Aldo Castellano from Polytechnic University of Milan and Prof. Chen Yi from Tongji University; they have made a deep research on this topic. The European and Chinese history, society and dining spaces in past, today and future have been narrated on exhibition, though it was certainly small in scale to comparing with the grand exposition in Milan but it has also gained good reputation and extensive attention. Since then the curators would expand their researches, as we will take the advantage of this research experience. The authors are all architects, and are also famous professors and scholars in architectural design, education and theory researches. They had been building expansive and comprehensive collaborations in aspects of education, research, international exchange, and organizing workshops, seminars, exhibitions and others since last 20 years and owned international reputations. This library is an achievement on international corporations and joint research, thus, it generated the first book series for this topic including three volumes, which are:  1) Eating together. History, Culture, and Architecture; 2) Eating together. Design and History;  3) Eating together. Design Studies and New Trends.  The books take anthropological and sociological view to study the dining space. Wherever dining in Italy or China, everywhere would always become a most important issue. In China, there is a canon, "Food is the first necessity for people". Dining is an ancient topic too: about 2500 years ago, Confucius said himself on dining that "he did not eat his fill of polished rice, nor did he eat his fill of finely minced meat". Dining is not just a daily necessary, but also related to history, culture, humanity, economy and politics. Zheng Shiling Eating together. History culture and architecture Aldo Castellano,  Eating together: a Timeless Rite of people, DOI 10.30448/uni.20774.01 Barbara Galli, Davide Allegri,   In Religious Communities, DOI 10.30448/uni.20774.02 Roberto Parisi,    Dining space for special people,  DOI  10.30448/uni.20774.03 Barbara Galli,    Utopian Communities, DOI  10.30448/uni.20774.04 Chen Yi, Li Pin,  The Preliminari study on the Evolution of China's Dining Space, DOI 10.30448/uni.20774.05 Zhang Liang, Chen Yi,  Dining Space and Culture, DOI 10.30448/uni.20774.06 Dong Zhixin,  The Catering Event and Famous Historical Incidents, DOI 10.30448/uni.20774.07 Authors Allegri, Davide: Adjunct Professor of Technology in School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Enginnering - Politecnico di Milano. Ph.D in Design and Technologies for Cultural Heritages. Graduate School in Architectural and Land¬scape Heritage. Associate architect of LEND studio. Bugatti, Angelo: Architect, author of a lot of books and architectonic works as houses, plazas, public sites and restauration of heritage. Former President of Double Degree Program in Building engineer/architecture and full Professor in Architectural Composition and Urban Design, is Advisory Professor of Tongji University; President of scientific committee for artistic sites in Lombardy. He focuses his interest in renewal of urban design and architectural significant into the future way of life and work. Castellano, Aldo: Full Professor of History of Architecture in School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Enginnering - Politecnico di Milano. Visiting Professor of College of...