The Evolution And Analysis Of Contemporary Architectural Program

Information revolution in the late 20th century brought human society into a diverse information society. With deeper and deeper infiltration of various disciplines, people renew their understanding of traditional architectural space and demand more. Concept of space has also evolved and'program'is a such integration. After reviewing the complex relationship between architectural trends and other related theories, the logical relationship and new trends are showed. On the other hand, the creation of contemporary architectural program embodies human's subjective initiative. The architect-represented conceptions have been studied and their advanced academic thoughts have been summarized.'Progam'has been expounded from these 3 aspects:1.Contamparory architectural program is closely interrelated to development of social ideology, technology and humanities that must impact on design concept of program.2. The development of architectural space has its own features and trails. The appearance of program not only meets the basic professional requirements of architecture, but also integrates the concepts and methods of architectural design.3.As individual design concept and thought, architects promote both architectural discipline and humanistic environment.At last, the design concepts and creation skills of program's application in the field of architecture are summarized from 2 aspects:architectural space-based summary of architectural trends; case analysis of contemporary architectural program representatives. The former is an abstract overview that reviews architectural trends and provides program theoretical foundation and abstract historical perspectives. The latter contains author's own understandings of contemporary architectural program. The evolution and analysis of contemporary architectural program are structured though inter-infiltration of these two aspects.