The Aesthetics Of Disappearing--French Architects' Critical Inheritance And Development Of Modernity Based On Architecture Principle

Modernity is an unfinished design. Modern architecture is born to oppose the conservative academic ways of thinking and forms, and does play a significant role in promoting history of architecture. Construction with the development of human society is a continuous ongoing process. The architectural forms that suddenly appear or disappear, however, does not exist.In this paper, through the Architecture Principle that break the traditional perception of the orthogonal space to the third dimension of space for the pursuit of experiences, and absorb the architectural vocabulary from the bunker archeology as the main theoretical support. Borrowing the words "the Disappearing Aesthetic" from Virilio book is integrated to summarize their architectural ideas. Therefore, we trace back to Le Corbusier's poetic pursuit on the natural form and the new esprit of changing international functionalism. Then continue with the Nouvel's new modern disappearing aesthetics. And further more, comparative analysis is made on the French architects of three generations via projects to reveal the disappearing aesthetic space.Unlike the rational pursuit of the German and the technology show of the British, French architects of three generations lead the critical way of inheriting and developing the disappearing aesthetic. Therefore, it isn't due to the simple result of Beau-Arts formal education, but a multidisciplinary sensibility and experience the importance of space perceptions original pursuit. It provides an alternative view point of originality and inspiration for Chinese architecture to explore and develop its own way out.