Unique modern Chinese architecture
In modern times, Chinese architects urgently wanted to change and catch up like never before. "Updating concepts" became the main issue that architectural circles were concerned with. 'Amazing foreign architects' masterpieces and foreign architectural theories and thoughts faced Chinese architects and greatly impacted Chinese architects, existing architectural concepts, design methods as well as China's architectural materials and architectural equipment industry.
As the power of modern architecture concepts became stronger and stronger, the power of traditional architectural concepts were also revealed. Such opposition in architectural circles ultimately manifested as a conflict between national forms and modern architecture. Some architects tried to establish "socialist content and national forms" as the guiding principle for China's architecture industry; some advocated abandoning old forms incompatible with modern functions and taking the road of modernist architecture; some architects called for taking the road of Chinese national and modern architecture and proceeding from excellent traditions to carry out innovation.
Focusing on these opinions, buildings in this period were also mainly manifested as various attempts to embody nationality and modernity.
China's architecture concepts entered a high period of activity in the 1980s as ideological fluctuations brought about new ideas. At end of the 1980s, Charles Jencks' "late modernism" and some ecological architectural theories, place theories and architectural typology theories with new rules came to China one after another.
About the book
Chinese Architecture Written by Cai Yanxin Published by China Intercontinental Press, Beijing, 2018
In modern times, Chinese architects urgently wanted to change and catch up like never before. "Updating concepts" became the main issue that architectural circles were concerned with. 'Amazing foreign architects' masterpieces and foreign architectural theories and thoughts faced Chinese architects and greatly impacted Chinese architects, existing architectural concepts, design methods as well as China's architectural materials and architectural equipment industry.
As the power of modern architecture concepts became stronger and stronger, the power of traditional architectural concepts were also revealed. Such opposition in architectural circles ultimately manifested as a conflict between national forms and modern architecture. Some architects tried to establish "socialist content and national forms" as the guiding principle for China's architecture industry; some advocated abandoning old forms incompatible with modern functions and taking the road of modernist architecture; some architects called for taking the road of Chinese national and modern architecture and proceeding from excellent traditions to carry out innovation.
Focusing on these opinions, buildings in this period were also mainly manifested as various attempts to embody nationality and modernity.
China's architecture concepts entered a high period of activity in the 1980s as ideological fluctuations brought about new ideas. At end of the 1980s, Charles Jencks' "late modernism" and some ecological architectural theories, place theories and architectural typology theories with new rules came to China one after another.
About the book
Chinese Architecture Written by Cai Yanxin Published by China Intercontinental Press, Beijing, 2018
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