The Research Of Qingdao Architectural Decoration In German Occupation Period

Modern architecture in Qingdao has attained great artistic achievements, which is inseparable with its exquisite decoration. Qingdao's architecture in German Occupation Period has close relation and great impact on its modern architecture. Because it would greatly help us to realize Qingdao's modern architecture through studying the architecture decoration in this period, this paper gives a detailed and in-depth elucidation to Qingdao's architecture in German Occupation Period through a microcosmic angel of view: architecture decoration.The main manner of Qingdao's architecture decoration in German Occupation Period is localization of foreign transplants. Its decorative technique has a characteristic of diversity, which is based on satisfying the architecture structure and using function, and incarnates the logic between the use of decoration and its components. Although the Qingdao's buildings in German Occupation period have different decorative styles and shapes, they coexist harmoniously and complement each other after blending Qingdao's local arts and crafts since they have close scales and similar techniques of composing a picture. Through analyzing the prototype and evolutive modality of decoration in the historical environment, this thesis expatiates on the prototype and evolutive characters of architecture decoration in German Occupation Period.This article elaborates the components of buildings in German Occupation Period, which include window, column, balcony, bracket, cornice, roof, frontispiece and corridor, expatiates their relations with New Art Movement, Eclecticism and German nationalism style, summarizes the different components corresponding to different architectural styles. Since the architecture decoration shapes and styles in German Occupation Period are inseparable with the material character, this thesis also summarizes the architectural materials in German Occupation Period such as wood, metal, brick, stone, and analyzes how the architectural style in German Occupation Period came into being as well as its characters through material and technique angle.Based on fully analyzing the entity of architecture decoration, this thesis further expounds the architecture decoration's relation with internal and external space through the space angle of view. The article also points out that the architecture decoration strengthens the style, proportion and inspiration of space through analyzing building examples.Finally, this thesis discusses the architecture decoration character of "conglonmeration of China and the west" in which foreign culture takes the main part, presented in the architecture decoration details, building colony and architecture space, expatiates its impact on the buildings at that time and subsequent architecture style.