A Comparison Between Architectural Thoughts Of T.P. Yang And Louis I. Khan

T.P.Yang and Louis I. Khan, two architects, have many different points such as manner, pursuit, birth, original education, working background, country, society and cultural circumstance; but they accepted the same coUeging, as the classmate, spurned the doxy of modernism architecture, find the different way to integrate the architecture into condition, society and culture. Through comparing of two architects, we can find some same ways that they go to succeed, make our understanding to modern architecture deeply, avail to the present developing of architects and their designs in China. In this article, we used the method of architectural history and philosophical hermeneutics; through understanding the different contents of historical condition, times background, professional experience and so on; in the idiographic scene of history, struck up the effective-historical consciousness; then through different and appropriate angle of view from hermeneutic circling and philosophical thinking; at the same time particularly analyzed the representative works of T.P.Yang and Louis I. Khan; compared their basic thought about architecture and the views of architectural aesthetics, space, surroundings; then we looked for the causes of their success in their experience. In the comparing and analyzing of two architect works, words and deeds, we found that the architectural thought of eclecticism in University of Pennsylvania influenced both T.P.Yang and Louis I. Khan all the time. Because they stayed in two societies, American and Chinese, which had clearly different architectural culture; they were coached by the different philosophical thought; they had the different creative conditions of...