Reading In "Tectonic" As "Non-avant-garde"

The studies in “tectonic” culture once again put forwarded by Kenneth Frampton find Architectural Academia an opportunity of the establishing of disciplinary autonomy. While at the same time, the urgent mentality to eagerly build an ontology culture completely get rid of the control of ideology makes many scholars fail to fully understand the profound background as well as its own complexity and critical tension of “tectonic”, which leads to the Chinese studies remain in a kind of knowledge system of modern rationalism, its phenomenological critical practice are not able to play the due vigor in this repressive condition. Another problem is that the current understanding of "tectonic" is more in the pursuit of typicality or monumentality, which undoubtedly narrow the richness of its study in the most part and meanwhile makes it assume a performance task much too heavily.Therefor, this paper aims to stay in the “non-avant-garde” position of "Resistant architecture", breaking to discuss “tectonic” in the Internal perspective of the theory, and sees it as a constructive activities of building at the level of anthropology and linguistics. It prepares to restore a broad perspective of the “tectonic” culture with the deconstructible interpretation, as well as guides “tectonic” to precise language interpretation and making with the criticism of methodology.Because of this special perspective, this paper will try to avoid the deductive mood of discourse and turn to an interdisciplinary and transtheoretical writing. Starting with the discussion of extensive “tectonic” activities, it tries to build a multidimensional view in the dialogue between the concepts of subject internal and external, " construction " and " poetic ", “avant-garde” and “non-avant-garde”, “ theory” and ”practice”, “macroscopic” and ”precise”, ”absent” and "present” etc., through different perspectives of pre-modern, modern and postmodern, hoping to have a certain enlightenment to the scholars studied in “tectonic” culture.