Research On Ideological Trend Of Architecture Nostalgia About General "Xintiandi"

Xintiandi of Shanghai owns its reputation for successfully combining historic elements with commercial function. Followed by many other cities in China, Xintiandi leads the growing ideological trend of architecture nostalgia. In these years, Phenomenon of architecture nostalgia about general"xintiandi"becomes the hot point in many Chinese cities. It provides a new way to revive and innovate the culture of modern architecture. This thesis explains the phenomenon in theory, history and practice with steps. And analyses its characteristic and origin, and then discuss the significance in carrying on and developing the traditional architecture culture.At first this thesis is begin with the concepts of nostalgia and the nostalgia in architecture, explaining the definition, characteristic and significance. Next explain the phenomenon of general"xintiandi"with pointing out the differences and similarities between them. Through reviewing to the history and analyzing to the present situation, the author expatiate the reason of its origin. And then analyzing the practice of the general"xintiandi"buildings, take the buildings of xintiandi in Shanghai and 1912 in Nanjing for examples. The author concludes the design methods from master plan, form, space and environment. Last the author explains the positive and neglect effects of the general"xintiandi"nostalgia in carrying on the modern architecture culture. With these effects the principle and way to revive and innovate the modern architecture culture are what the author wants to find out.This thesis includes about 62,000 Chinese word and more than 140 illustrations.