Research On Chinese Eclectic Architecture Of Modern Times

The development of Chinese architecture of modern times reached its climax from 1900 to 1937.During this period, especially the earlier stage, the main trend of architectural development is western revivalism and eclecticism. The eclecticism of western architectural history happened in earlier nineteenth century till the beginning of twentieth century. But the impact of west architecture over Chinese architecture sometimes is delayed, this is common culture spreads time spacing. Therefore, eclecticism of Chinese architecture developed prosperous at the beginning of twenty centuries till the thirties. Let's call it eclecticism times of Chinese architectural history for the moment.What needed to explain is that there's no strict boundary between the western revivalism buildings that were built in the modern times of Chinese architecture and eclecticism buildings. Both created by using traditional architectural language including architectural pattern,motif and details. The nature difference lies in that the mixed style of revivalism architectural creation is unconscious, while eclecticism architectural creation is consciously emulating and knocking together. Therefore, a lot of no pure revivalist style may possibly classify into the eclecticism architecture.A great quantity of architectural works, which were emerging in the eclecticism times of Chinese architectural history, have obviously differentiated from Chinese traditional buildings regardless of social function, applying materials, inherent structure and external form. The writer used mature west architectural history research method as a tool, resetting the history humanity environment that these buildings produced, keeping a foothold in building itself, tracing the headstream of historic evolution, to inquire about the significance of the architectural form of this peculiar period to the Chinese architectural history.