Study On Works Of Palmer & Turner Architects And Surveyors

In the early 20^th century, with the fast development of society and economy in Shanghai the construction of architecture showed itself flourishing. Though the cosmopolitan economic crisis affected Shanghai at the beginning of 1930s, it accelerated the construction by contrary. All of these brought out a set of powerful western architects. They designed a lot of symbolic buildings, which represented the character of Shanghai.Palmer & Turner Architects and Surveyors was one of the most active architecture design office in English & American residential areas during that period. They designed lots of diversified types of buildings, a large number of which were placed into the list of excellent historic buildings. The style of their projects varied from Neo-classical style to Art-deco, then to modern style, which structured the epitome of Shanghai of that period. It will be helpful for researching the early 20^th century buildings in Shanghai through studying their projects. It is also helpful for finding out the key line of the architectural development of Shanghai.