Author : Rensa Guo
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (117 download)
Book Synopsis Parametric Design in Traditional Chinese Architecture by : Rensa Guo
Download or read book Parametric Design in Traditional Chinese Architecture written by Rensa Guo and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International style of modern architecture is called ‘universal’. In today’s global practice of architecture, architecture studios around the world take part in global architecture competitions designing buildings that look similar to one region and transplanting them to a different continent. These ‘global’ designs lack response to the culture of diverse regions and its historical civilizations. In China today, there is resistance to change while the global exchange is happening. While monolithic brutalistic towers replace indigenous villages, in Beijing, some Chinese architects attempt to rebuild old traditions of courtyard houses and hutong. In southern China, many traditional style Chinese buildings are designed and constructed. In resistance, the Chinese aesthetic is leaning towards traditional culture in the last ten years. Looking through the history of Chinese architecture. There are missing links between the old and the new architecture. Before the 1900s, there were no professional architects in China. The only one permitted to design and build a building was the carpenter. There are higher and lower level carpenters. higher level carpenters design great traditional Chinese buildings like temples and palaces working for the government and the emperor. Lower level carpenters design and build houses for civilians. All carpenters follow the standards of Building Formulas, learning from older carpenters. In the 1900s, Chinese architecture was influenced by the modernism of the western world. There was no transition in between. Chinese architecture jumped from traditional directly to modernism with no translation. Since the 1990’s new style in Chinese architecture is called Chinese modernism. It combines the space of modernism and the shape of traditional Chinese style together. The traditional Chinese style is reduced to mere decoration but is not the core of its design. (This is much like the US post Modern Period of the 65-90’ s) Now, more Chinese architects focus on the expression of the oriental philosophy in architecture. The traditional Chinese style is no longer just decoration but united with a reflection of space and environment. As Chinese architects return to not copying the past, nor decorating with the style, but addressing Chinese cultural relationships with space and the environment, a new Chinese architecture of contemporary making technologies looks to define the new Chinese future.