The Evolvement And Development Of Retail Building And Space In The Present Age

Retail building and space is one of the architecture types that spread most widely, it has a long history. With the development of society, retail space created more and more effect on the quality of city, city space and city life. But high architecture has not pay enough recognition and understanding for retail building and space for a long time. The most of study only focused on the function of building, abstract form, fa?ade and indoor ornament. This article tries to analyze in some deeper levels, such as society, economy, technology and culture. And try to analyze comparatively from the direction of time (history) and space (global and local). To grasp the society, culture, architecture essence of retail building and space, understand the fundamental conflict and development power, and anticipate some new trend in the future.The basement and rule of the article is the grasp for "the conflict between the form restrict of retail building and space and the expend logic of business activity". By the analysis for the history of retail, we can draw a conclusion that the new trend of retail building and space: expand into everywhere in the city, on the other hand, new forms of building and space emerge very fast. "Big" and "new" is the first two aims for retail architecture. At last, the article discussed the retail space, which is created by combination with virtual space and physical space, and discussed its effect on city and society in the present informational age.