Research On The Style And Decorative Of Xi'an Modern Architecture

Xi'an modern architectural style suffers the inevitable invasion of Western architectural culture. Chinese and Western style is the mail characteristic of Xi'an Modern architecture. Compared with the opening cities, the style of Xi'an modern architecture is greatly affected by the local traditional architecture. It has its own laws and characteristics.This paper discusses the Creative groups and Architectural Trends and analyzes the decorative style of Xi'an Modern Architecture. The Creative groups including designers and builders are local artisans?western missionaries?administration?civil engineers and architects?construction teams and real estate companies. Landlocked Xi'an Modern buildings are still part of the continuation of the traditional architectural style, but due to the influence of Western architecture, most of the buildings present the characteristics of Chinese and Western. Because of the impact of early colonial architecture and the Western buildings the natives in Xi'an were beginning to accept the Western-style buildings, and gradually advocate and imitate them, the western style buildings were also built in this period . In addition, by the coastal areas of its inception, Xi'an Modern architecture has the reaction of national revival, art deco and modernism in Western architecture. Then it analysis Xi'an examples of modern architectures and the details.Finally, the paper proposes that the study of the decorative style can guide for practices and the facade design of buildings..