Between Tradition And Modern

As a separate art format, the Chinese landscape architecture springs up after dreariness of one hundred years. Whereas, the traditional landscape architecture design couldn't accommodate with the modern urban environment. Therefore, modern landscape designers face with an important question of how to succeed and innovate the traditional landscape garden, and also how to create a landscape style of "Modern Chinese Style". The design case of "Fang Ta Park" that the paper emphatically study may be one of the most influential landscape design cases of Chinese modern landscape architecture design in 1980s. As a site space which lay out the historical cultural relic and offer relaxation and recreation for citizen, the designer breaks the precise and regular layout of traditional cultural relic memorial space, and also get out of a certain extent of random and jumble in traditional landscape garden. The modern design idea and methods are syncretized with the soul of the traditional landscape garden by the designers, who conforms the historical cultural relic to the modern landscape architecture. The visitors apperceive history in easy and libertarian atmosphere, and conversate with the reality. The design of the "Square Tower Park" probe into the crasis of tradition and modern, it worthful as an example to study from programming to space art feature and design methods by contemporary landscape architecture designs.In the first of the dissertation, it simply introducts the merit and limitation in traditional landscape garden and the rise of the modern landscape architecture, and then emphatically analysis the "Square Tower Park" design case in much aspect to parse the substaintial space which from the function and configuration and layout, etc. It's quest for succeed to the tradition and initiate modernism, in a sequence, it deeply analysis the historical culture and nature spirit and construct technique. After the introduction and study, in conclusion, it summarizes the apocalypse of the "Square Tower Park" design and analysis the actuality of contemporary Chinese landscape architecture, and then emphasizes the importance of the combination between tradition and modern.