A Study Of Modern Regional Architecture In Overseas Chinese's Hometown In South Of Fujian

Overseas Chinese hometown in south of Fujian refers to Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou etc. Under the background of sino-west culture combination in modern times, with the promote of overseas Chinese remittance and modern cities development, new buildings not stick to one pattern have appeared. From viewpoint of regional architecture development, the article extends single study of architecture types and dwelling houses to compositive studies of the regional architecture development, analyzes the traditional architecture evolvement and foreign influence localization, to discusses the rule and character of regional architecture evolvement in overseas Chinese hometown. During modern times building, Yang-lou(Exotic-style Building), Qi-lou(Shophouse),"Jiageng building"reflect the evolvement of architecture ideas.Based on traditional dwelling houses, Yang-lou has two main character of Exotic-style exterior and vertical evolvement. It reflects traditional architecture has absorbed foreign culture no matter single building or residential area or gardens layout etc, stuck to the cultural spirits of traditional aesthetics. Qi-lou as a kind of building layout along the street, indicates the combination of foreign streets plan and traditional shopping houses construct. It comes from continuous perfectness and development."Jiageng building"as representative of modern campus building combines western architecture elements with regional ones. It relates closely to the influence of cultural nationalism, classical culture renaissance and widely used of regional material. It shows multi-interlace of scientific and national, great-tradition and little-tradition. Mr. Chen Jiageng is the representative of cultural and regional disposition in modern times in south of Fujian. He shows a distinctive local style during the Chinese classical architecture renaissance.Modern times architecture in south of Fujian has clear traditional mark. The buildings were closely connected with direct and rustic character of vernacular architecture, while a lot of means were tried in order to use for reference the techniques, methods, styles, and symbols of...