Diversified Chinese architectural styles
Re-exploration of traditions, reflection on the road taken over the past several decades, Sino-foreign cultural ideological exchange and unprecedented architectural creation tasks all contributed to the formation of diverse modern Chinese architecture.
In this period, China had rich and varied architectural styles, which can roughly be categorized as neo-traditionalism, neoclassicism, neo-regionalism, native pluralist modernism and neo-environmentalism.
Neo-traditionalism, also known as archaism, is a modernist expression of traditional forms.
In the course of development of Chinese modern architectural art, "modernity" represented by "Westernization" and "tradition" represented by "nationalization" were always in the contradiction between mutual collision and integration, but inheritance of "national forms" was always one of the main directions of Chinese architectural creation.
Inheritance of traditional architecture in modern times was also deemed by scholars as the most obvious, enduring and extensive thought in China's architectural circles.
In the mid-1950s, inheritance of Chinese traditional architectural culture in modern times with "big roofs" as the main characteristic reached the first climax; the National Day project triggered the second climax in the late 1950s; after the beginning of reform and opening-up, the third climax took place.
About the book
Chinese Architecture Written by Cai Yanxin Published by China Intercontinental Press, Beijing, 2018
Re-exploration of traditions, reflection on the road taken over the past several decades, Sino-foreign cultural ideological exchange and unprecedented architectural creation tasks all contributed to the formation of diverse modern Chinese architecture.
In this period, China had rich and varied architectural styles, which can roughly be categorized as neo-traditionalism, neoclassicism, neo-regionalism, native pluralist modernism and neo-environmentalism.
Neo-traditionalism, also known as archaism, is a modernist expression of traditional forms.
In the course of development of Chinese modern architectural art, "modernity" represented by "Westernization" and "tradition" represented by "nationalization" were always in the contradiction between mutual collision and integration, but inheritance of "national forms" was always one of the main directions of Chinese architectural creation.
Inheritance of traditional architecture in modern times was also deemed by scholars as the most obvious, enduring and extensive thought in China's architectural circles.
In the mid-1950s, inheritance of Chinese traditional architectural culture in modern times with "big roofs" as the main characteristic reached the first climax; the National Day project triggered the second climax in the late 1950s; after the beginning of reform and opening-up, the third climax took place.
About the book
Chinese Architecture Written by Cai Yanxin Published by China Intercontinental Press, Beijing, 2018
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