The condition of Chinese architecture: Elaboration of a critical approach

摘要

The Paper is entitled "The Condition of Chinese Architecture: Elaboration of a critical approach." The object of the research is the contemporary Chinese architecture. In short, the research consists of 3 sections: Nowadays reality, the contemporary architecture studied through the big numbers of its expansion, the size and quantity of projects, the issue of demolition-history, the relationship between the project and the context and the so-called "no context", the explanation of numbers of the Chinese phenomenon and condition that determines its architecture and the will of the search for identity. Trends Panorama, they are divided between objects mega-structural, landmark buildings and buildings icons, traditional and vernacular architecture. Considerations, the opposite point of views of Rem Koolhaas and Yung Ho Chang, one focused on the understanding of the reality and the current situation in Asia and the other one defining a new type of architecture focused on the quality of the space and the against the formalism.