A Case Study Of Modern Chinese Architecture

From 40s to 50s of the last century, there was a young team of the students and teachers from Department of Architectural Engineering of St. John’s University (Shanghai) appearing in Shanghai, which is located at the edge of Chinese and Western culture.Having been apprentice to Walter Gropius, Henry Jorson Huang was the core member among them, they inherited the teaching method of philosophy and architecture started from the modern architecture of Bauhaus in Germany, which led a new trend focusing on "guided with Space, coexisted with technology and art" throughout China at that time.Teacher union club of Tongji University is one of the works done in 1956 by the students and teachers from Department of architecture of Tongji University, which started from Department of Architectural Engineering of St. John’s University (Shanghai). The work successfully combined western modernism-moving space and space philosophy of traditional Chinese architecture through experimental techniques, which answered the question of "What is the true suitable Chinese modern architecture", in the 50s of the last century when "the national form of Chinese architecture" was popular in ChinaThe academic research of Teacher union club of Tongji University is blank domestically now. Even there is a few research done by modern academic researchers of architecture, the coverage is limited due to various reasons.The thesis consists of three parts:The First part---Chapter 1---raises the question: Introduction-explore the respective of the related reasons and objectives of the research; the second part is case study, which mainly covers chapter 2:architects and their times, chapter 3: Teacher union club of Tongji University on the drawings, chapter 4:time, space & Teacher union club of Tongji University, and chapter 5:Teacher union club of Tongji University in reality. This part tries to excavate comprehensively the hidden historical culture, modern civilization and current development of Teacher union club of Tongji University in all directions mainly through the analysis of the background and other related factors of this architecture; the third part is the summary, which is chapter 6:consolidate the result of the research, analyze the gains and losses, and then propose reasonable solutions.