| Modern architecture in China stemms from the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. Although it is just of an over-100-year old history, it has played as the linkage and bridge of the old and new architecture; it has been the collision and mixture of the Chinese and Western culture. The modern architecture bears great research value. Architecture is a reflection of the culture, while architecture, acting as the carrier of culture, interprets culture from different angles. Architecture and culture are mutually complementary related to each other. Modern architecture is the product of the collision and fusion of Chinese and Western cultures.With a history of more than 170 years, mass communication and conflict of the Chinese and Western culture began during the opium war. It is inevitable for two cultures to collide and integrate when they meet. As the carrier of culture, traditional Chinese architecture was greatly influenced by the then Western architectural culture. The traditional Chinese architecture form was affected by many fresh and strange architectural form. At that time, there turned up forms of architectures, such as Gothic, Baroque, Los cocoa, classical type, Russia type, and Japan type, etc, as a result, this brought into appearance the coexisting situation of traditional Chinese style, Western style and Chinese-Western style architectures. After the Opium War, due to the massive invasion of Western culture, there appeared contradictory process of integration and collision of Chinese and Western architectures. This contradiction was reflected through two sides, with one side the advanced western technology and its differential architectural style; the other the China's adherence to doctrines of traditional thoughts and fixation of the traditional architectural culture. In the backdrop, collision and fusion of Chinese and Western cultures engendered the modern Henan University architectural complex, and also became the source of this article. The backdrop of this article is the special history period when China entered the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. This article takes the representative modern Henan University architectural complex for example, and analyses and summarizes up the Chinese and Western culture features contained in the modern Henan University architectural complex on the aspect of the different style of the Chinese and Western culture's usage in the same architectural mass. This article discusses the modern Henan University architectural complex in great detail and demonstrates that foreign culture and traditional culture could exist together harmoniously and try to promote the modern Henan University architectural complex research in the future.This article is divided into six chapters. The first chapter shows us an overview of Chinese modern architecture, with details of three basic styles of modern architecture. The second chapter gives us an insight into the modern architectures of Henan University and analyzes the innovations contrasted with traditional architectures. Much focus is put on the charactistic Auditorum, South school gate, Building No.6 and No.7 and dormitories on the east and west. With the objective formation background of culture, the third chapter analyzes the causes of different eastern and western cultures, and summarizes the basic characteristics of traditional eastern culture and western culture, all of which theoretically supports the reflections of different cultures as shown on Henan University's modern architectures. The fourth and fifth chapters as the main chapters pay much attention to overall planning, construction materials, decoration parts and colors, spatial locations and user-friendly design, etc of Henan University modern architecture. The two chapters analyze how the characteristics of Chinese and Western cultures are applied and reflected in Henan University's modern architectures, thus help us study and research the Chinese and Western cultures with an in-depth view as reflected in the modern architectures of Henan University. The sixth chapter summarizes the historical and practical significance of Henan University's modern architectures which have been largely influenced by the Chinese and Western cultures. |
