Thre Categories of Contemporary Chinese Architecture Design-Discus of Formations and Types of Architecture Design-

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 120-128
Author(s):  
Sang Ok Lee
Keyword(s):  
Architecture Design ◽  
Chinese Architecture ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

The Effect of Critical Regionalism Thoughts in Architecture on Contemporary Chinese Architecture - Localization Trend of Chinese Architecture in 21st Century

2012 ◽  
Vol 209-211 ◽  
pp. 183-190
Author(s):  
Chang Rui Zhang ◽  
Yong Tian ◽  
Deng Jun Ren
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Future Trend ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Chinese Architecture ◽  
Critical Regionalism ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Pattern ◽  
Art Philosophy ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

This thesis makes an in-depth research on the contemporary condition and future trend of the critical regionalism in Chinese architectural field. In the world multi-cultural pattern, academic circles show more and more attention to and concern about local civilization. As a participator of social practice, architect is responsible for maintaining the insistence and sustainable development of local civilization. Chinese architects are preceding with a misbelief that heritage and adoption of “modernism” does not premise on the doubt and repulsion of “universalism” civilization, just as their counterparts in advanced countries in early years. How to treat technology, art, philosophy, tradition and innovation correctly is a lasting historic subject for Chinese architect.

Forming and Performing: Conditioning the Concept of Chinese Space in the Case of National Theatre of China

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tang Keyang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
Chinese Architecture ◽  
The City ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Core Issues ◽  
Chinese Public

This article will examine the case of National Theatre of China, one of the most iconic buildings that have been looming in the skyline of Chinese metropolises in recent years. They are known to the Chinese public for their unprecedented, and often nicknamed, architectural types. Critics tend to deem such examples of contemporary Chinese architecture from recent waves of urban development as merely “bizarre,” taking wacky building forms as the dishonorable outcome of a corrupt conspiracy between capital and politics. Instead of making a similar judgment, this article will discuss the case of the National Theatre as a wishful cultural practice in the context of a complicated sociopolitical drama. The discussion will elaborate on three core issues emerging in the transformation of contemporary Chinese public space: (1) how the meaning of the architectural “face” changes as the urban “body” is redefined, (2) how formal and technical means enhance or weaken the psychological impact that an innovative and adventurous building might have on its patrons, and (3) how rigid urban planning is reconciled with a more dynamic and active theatric space that turns the city itself into an improvised stage.

scholarly journals Shennan Road and the Modernization of Shenzhen Architecture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cong Sun ◽  
Charlie Q. L. Xue ◽  
Lujia Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Transfer Path ◽  
Chinese Architecture ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Growth History ◽  
History Of ◽  
City Construction ◽  
Reform And Opening Up ◽  
The City ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Shenzhensetsanexampleforrapiddevelopmentofurbanplanningandconstruction.It was the starting point of the most massive city-construction movement in contemporary China. In less than 40 years, many representative urban space and buildings on the mainmast-west highway—-ShennanRoad,have witnessed the for mation of the banded multi-center structural layout and the miraculous expansion of the city. Many of those iconic buildings are designed by Hong Kong or foreign architects. With the continuous development of the length and width of Shennan road, its broad and prosperous image is not only a symbol of the fruits of reform and opening up in Shenzhen or even China, but also contains the growth history of Shenzhen’s architectural modernization. This paper reviews and summarizes the changes of the urban fabric and the design trend of representative buildings along with the Shennan Road in different periods by the historical research methods. Combined with the transfer path of the city center, this study analyzes what kind of unique role the street and buildings act as in the developmentofurbanstructureinShenzhen,and expound what other urban functions and symbolic meaning they have. In the context of globalization, this article discusses how do the buildings designed by foreign architects change our city,thedrivenfactors behind the phenomenon of the design trend change. This research can make a supplement to the history and theory of the modernization of contemporary Chinese architecture.

The everyday: a degree zero agenda for contemporary Chinese architecture

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-246
Author(s):  
Junyang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Degree Zero ◽  
Chinese Architecture ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Autonomous Objects ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

This paper highlights the theoretical and critical implications of the everyday for contemporary Chinese architecture on two levels. On the one hand, against the background that – ever since the formation of the profession of architecture in the early twentieth century – there has been a recurrent preference for high definitions of Chinese architecture either in terms of its outer form or style, or its essential and metaphysical meanings. This paper thus aims to identify a quiet yet compelling awareness of the significance of the everyday to architecture in China over the past 15 years. Beginning with Jiakun Liu's declaration of Here and Now, illustrated by his recently completed project in Chengdu, Xicun Big Yard, this consciousness has been made apparent through architectural practice, research and education. To borrow Roland Barthes’ terminology, it is a ‘degree zero’ agenda that rests on the multiple yet ostensible unobtrusiveness of everyday reality in Chinese cities rather than the hot definition of form and overladen historical and metaphysical meanings. In the context of contemporary Chinese architecture, on the other hand, this agenda can also be seen as a resistance arising in response to the dramatic construction of large-scale urban redevelopments that have, in many cases, resulted in devastating consequences. As a ‘degree zero agenda’, the concern of the everyday not only offers a way to see around architecture's obsessions with buildings as autonomous objects but also calls for bottom-up urban processes in contrast to the top down approach that has prevailed in China. The paper calls for a Chinese architecture that, by transforming the purpose and activity of design, would better fulfil its social and architectural potentials through practical, poetic and critical operations.

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