Mazing The Courtyard

As the art production of diversification, architecture not only closely related to the human's activity but also has become the sign and carrier of the nation's economic, culture, deliver itself of the nation's ideology and tropism of aesthetics. The Chinese traditional homes courtyard, which have a strong feature of folk, have confined space of residence, it contains the two thousand traditional life and culture of China. The deep level excavation to the courtyard space of China, which contains profound culture, them comprehension of inhabitation architecture looked as the artwork in the west, combined organic and look for the resemblance between them, is just the protection, deference and development to the native architecture culture in this time of diversification and sameness. It not only benefit for the new explanation to the architecture design under the conditions of the culture bump with west, but also in favor of searching for a new way of traditional folk art innovation in order to be well instructed in the future.The first chapter of the article, states a macroscopic background under the globalization, and illustrate the explicit object and meaning range of the research and the framework of the article.The second chapter, through the instruction of Chinese traditional homes courtyard, searchs for it's root and the relation by itself ,and argue the traditional art theory how to instruct the construction of the courtyard, analysis the performance, structure and essence of the courtyard space.The third chapter is the key point of the article. The first, taking the inner space of the modern foreign villa as a research object, through analysing the artwork of western representative architect, the article summarizes the composing characteristic of the foreign modem architecture space. Furthermore, it also states the Japanese architect, with the characteristic of traditional oriental culture how to deal with the conflict of modem and tradition, inheriting and developing on the basis argument above , with a method of the space designing syntax and composing way of modern foreign space, it return to parse and annotation the courtyard in all kinds of aspects.The forth and the fifth chapters, offer five design principles: the principles of unification, inclosing space, interface of space, the principles of path, 'nature sign' then the conclusion.