WANG DA-HONG'S PROJECT 'SELENE MONUMENT TO MAN'S CONQUEST OF THE MOON' IN THE CHINESE CULTURAL RENAISSANCE MOVEMENT

摘要

Taiwanese architect Wang Da-Hong designed and promoted the Selene Monument project during the 1960s and 1970s. The monument was to commemorate the first lunar landing achieved by the US Apollo 11 mission in 1969. Wang wanted the monument not only to celebrate the achievements of American science and technology, but also to pay tribute to the spirit of Chinese culture. The project can also be perceived as a way Wang found to search for the essential idea, the Chineseness. This paper will analyze the contents of the Selene project, including its promotion and design, by examining documents and drawings from the Wang Da-Hong collection of the National Taiwan Museum. After an overview of the entire project, it can be said that the Selene project was a highly political and ideological project, but Wang kept a certain distance from any political and ideological discussions during the Cold War era and he stressed the autonomy of architecture by advocating its spiritual values. Also, the Selene project represents the mutual existence of relative matters and reveals the sense of mystique as an essential idea behind Wang's conception of Chineseness.%台湾建築家の王大閎は1969年に「人類登月記念碑」計画案を発表した。それは、アメリカのアポロ11号によってはじめて成功した月面着陸を記念するモニュメントである。1960、70年代の王は国家的プロジェクトの設計競技に次々と勝利を収め、多数の計画を手掛けていた。そうしたなか、この架空のプロジェクトの考案と実現に努めた。王はこのモニュメントが「深い中華文化を意味」するものであり、「中国的なもの」であることを強調して語っており、この計画案を王が探求しつづけた中国性（Chineseness)のもっとも重要な実例と位置づけることができる。本研究は国立台湾博物館の未公開資料を用い、この計画案の経緯と内容を明らかにし、人類登月記念碑における中国性の内実を論じる。