The Seeing Points Analysis And The Visual Languages Re-construction On The Modern City Squares And Plazas

"The city squares and plazas" were translated from ancient Greece "Agolg". In old times, those city squares and plazas were used for the rendezvous and the intercommunion of the city groups. With the development of modern society,function of the public space was more perfectly than before in the city. The definition of the city squares and plazas were substituted and transformed gradually. They were not to be the roles of some supplement about the function of the city space. They want to be the space carriers of the city culture and history. In today, with the rapid development of the cities, how to plan the city squares and plazas were to be a very important topic of the cities landscape design in China. Before there were some tradition public spaces in Chinese cities such as"Ji"","Shi","Miao hui". When the city life influenced in the modernity, Chinese will to facing tow choiceness: one is to be accepted the foreign "Squares and plazas culture" passively, the other is should to think about the Chinese characteristic initiatively. We hope to found the fitly style of the squares and plazas space for the Chinese modern cities and the Chinese city groups.This treatise supposed the squares and plazas to be a space art works in the city. Because the city's culture history and the aesthetics are concluding in this kind of space form, who will reflects the city group's space psychology and the image of the city culture. From to analyze the relation of the seeing points and the visual languages. Base on the development of Chinese modern city, we will look for the new seeing points and re-construct the visual languages of the city squares and plazas space in the art field. There are tow parts of the study ways in this treatise: the information analyses and the examples analyses. The first part is the examples analyses, In the First, had analyzed deeply the seeing points and the visual languages in the city squares and plazas space of the collected information, found the particularity comparing with the other space arts. In the second, comparing with the western city squares and plazas and the Chinese "Lei guang chang", I analyses the development history of those spaces and the way of using those visual languages. During this study,I analyzing the different points of them, the come into being of society reason of them,the eastern and the western city groups aesthetics ,the space psychology and the different between the tow kinds of the society pattern and so on. The second part is the examples analyses, there are also have tow parts. Firstly. Had analyzed the foreign excellent examples, found the modernity of the seeing points and the visual languages in those squares and plazas space and the expression of the city culture. Secondly. Analyzing the tow main squares space in tow cities from the north and the south by asking the question,timing observing and checking the pictures.There are have some new conceptions in the treatise such as the factors "Time","Velocity"and the antiquity Chinese space psychology,the effecting each other between the author and the visitor during the art works. Analyzed the horizontal seeing points and the cernuous seeing points in the squares and plazas space after had researched the space psychology,aesthetics and the modern life style of the Chinese city groups. Try to re-construction the visual languages that used in the squares and plazas space of the modern cities, I hope to found the new idea and new concept of designing the squares and plazas space of Chinese cities.