Rethinking On The Introduction Of Contemporary Foreign Architectural Theory

Since the beginning of comprehensive input of western architectural education system and knowledge system in the early of the20th century, Chinese architectural began to learn and introduce foreign architectural theory. In the20th century, from the modernism architectural thoughts of the Europ to the socialist content and national form of the former Soviet union, the introduction of foreign architectural theory is always a dominant trend in the field of Chinese architecture, and it had a profound impact to the development of modern Chinese architecture. Reform and opening up policy open the door, has experienced a closed and isolated stage with the international architectural trend after the founding of new China, the peeled contemporary architecture thoughts is too many things to see for China, Chinese architectural showed strong initiative, but also has some conceptions and even blindness, resulted in there are many chaos、disorder phenomenon in the theoretical study of the introduced. A lot of famous Architectural scholars analyzed the guiding issue in the work of the introduction of foreign architectural theory since1980times, then points out the great negative impact for the contemporary architectural creation and theory construction of China the insufficient because of this insufficient。In the21st century, with the deepening of global integration and the process of reform and opening up, the research of contemporary architectural creation and theory of china has entered into an unprecedented easing and active period, the successively waves of foreign architectural theory, not only greatly broaden the outlook of Chinese architects, but also injected new impetus for architectural creation and theoretical innovation. Meanwhile, under the background of construction market、the new media and globalizationa, variety of architectural journals turn into the main window of insighting foreign theory and their trend, as well marks the track of introducing and digesting the foreign theory. However, foreign architectural theory is neither a scourge nor an absolute truth, it is necessary to comb the track of the introduction of foreign architectural theory in recent years, figuring out what we introduced, what should be adopted; to the complicated foreign architectural theory, how to imitate the positive factors and dissolve the negative factors of foreign architectural theory, and promote the development of contemporary architecture of China.Based on the above goals, this essay combine the existing statistical results of the introduction of foreign architectural theory with the historic evolution of The Architect, through statistical analysis the articles about the introduction of foreign architectural theory of in The Architect of2003-2012, have a restricted view to the emphasis and characteristic of the content of the introduced theory, attempt to found the gains and losings in the process of introduce in this period from the statistical result, and then put forward constructive suggestions for the introduced work in the future.