The Communion Of Technology And Art Of Architecture From The View Of Membrane Structure Architectures

In the thousands years of architectural history, the technology of architecture is always an invisible hidden way to stimulate the development for the art of architecture. The revolution of architectural technology from 20^th Century has brought new materials, new structures, new equipments for human beings, created different representational forms, and changed the people's esthetic value in a further step. Until the 50s of 20^th Century, a new type of architectural form, membrane structure architecture which has appeared has perfectly combined the art and technology as a whole. In recent years, the membrane structure has developed in a high speed for its unique individuality which is totally different from the traditional architectures, and it will be applied in a broad way in the 21^st Century.This subjet, studying the historical evolvement of membrane structure architectures, has analyzed in detail the relationship between the membrane structure architectures and architecture morphology, structural expressionism, the 'more with less' of Mr. Richard Buckminster Fuller's thoughts and surface theory these modern architecture theories; and has explained completely and profoundly the characteristics of membrane structure, its artistic expression power, the latest architectural creation thoughts and the design method reformation by the influences of modern architectural materials and structural technology. It also analyzes its unique representation power of architecture and great application foreground with the real models of membrane structure architectures, including the large space constructions and small ones of landscape.Finally, this essay has analyzed the characteristics and advantages of membrane structure architectures comparing with the traditional ones, meanwhile their present disadvantages and future directions have been discussed, and also there is the prediction of the development and foreground of this new pattern architectural form in China.