Review Study On Xi'an Architecture Creation With Ancient Style In The Recent 30 Years

Xi'an, with her glorious cultural heritage, is renowned for her unique architectural style both in China and the whole world. Since the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China, people have had heated discussion about how to inherit the ancient architecture tradition and carry forward the national style while developing traditional architecture to modern beauty. Effective measures have been taken to preserve the ancient city pattern and style. Resulted from the rapid urban development since 1980s, however, many problems arise in the new buildings which are designed for the protection of the old city style. Therefore, we are currently committed to coordinates protection and renewal as well as tradition and inheritance.This paper focuses on the development of ancient architectural styles in Xi'an. It also makes a review of some real cases in recent 30 years. Based on the development of Chinese ancient and the modern architecture, the paper analyzes the three ideological trends in Chinese modern times. Then it elaborated relationship between the modern and the ancient architecture. The paper proposes the concept of architecture in ancient style, i.e., modern buildings which embody Chinese ancient architectural styles, features and symbols as well as those which borrow the non-material ideas from Chinese architecture and designing. Based on the historical development of the city, the paper elucidated the birth, development, distribution and creation technique of architecture in ancient style of the city. Afterwards, the paper analyzes the corresponding cases with emphasis. Finally it makes a brief summary to current architecture creation in ancient styles as well as certain problems in Xi' an.Historically speaking, as mentioned in the paper, architecture of ancient styles in Xi' an originated early. City designing and architectural development in Tang Dynasty (619-907 AD) exerted a great influence on modern buildings in Xi'an. Since modern times, official and non-official efforts have been made to protect the old city style of Xi' an. In spite of the rapid development in recent 30 years with many sound cases emerging, there exist many quite a lot of problems in ancient style. Particularly, the creation techniques and features of Xi' an ancient styles in recent 30 years include:1. ancient appearance inherited from the history with reasonable transformation; 2. abstract marks combined and utilized; 3. summary and improvement; 4 in-depth annotations and symbolic metaphor; 5. controllable transforms for ancient blocks; 6. borrowed city texture; 7. special night lighting. Special attention is to be made in following aspects: 1. besides the application of contour and visual marks, traditional factors condensed in ancient architecture, such as Chinese culture, concept, conscience, ideas and psychology, are supposed to introduced to modern architecture;2. old style and new function are to be connected in a logical and rational manner; 3. contradiction between the ancient architecture and the modern architecture reasonable is hoped to be dispelled. 4. architecture in ancient style is supposed to be developed moderately while negative factors harmful for its development should be reduced; 5. more attention is to be paid to sustainable development with emphasis on ecology and environment while avoiding wasting resources. 6. positive critical attitude should be encouraged and developed in practice.This paper analyzes some real cases in recent 30 years, with attempt to help better understand architecture in ancient style. We hope it can give a positive impact on the future research on the protection of Xi'an city as long as the maintenance of ancient style and features in Xi'an and even in China. We also expect this paper can give some inspiration to architecture creation and the development of architecture creation in ancient styles in Xi'an city.