A Study On The Design Of Wu Han City Christian Churches

The thesis deals with Christian churches in Wuhan area built from mid-19th century on, including its historical and social background, development process, locations, building styles, and art achievement,especially its creative treatments, in Western-Chinese style combination. Systematical field investigation and analysis reveal that Christian Church as built in Wuhan area in 19 and early 20 centuries, as a part of western architectural culture, developed and changed to yield a variety of architectural form and to become a valuable part of Wuhan cultural legacy. The authoress focuses her investigation and collection on the main Christian churches, doing typological analysis making appraisal of their valves and comparison between them, then draw the following conclusion.Influenced by political,economic and cultural factors, the Christian churches in Wuhan area are much simpler than western countries in architectural technology and art. Though simple in exterior and in interior design and decoration, these buildings still represent mature Christian architectural style in compositional motive and proportion. These buildings make Chinese architectural culture richer and beautify landscape of cities. As a part of cultural legacy, these buildings should be considered and maintained.This paper consists of five parts:Part One has described the background, object, purpose, significance and method of the study, as well as the current study status of Wuhan's Christian churches and modern churches.Part Two has utilized the existing historical documents and research materials to describe the whole evolution process of Wuhan's Christian churches, including their emergence, prosperity and maturity. It has also summarized the distribution of Christian churches and introduced the current status of Wuhan's Christian churches.Part Three has made a brief introduction to the building style of Christian churches in Wuhan: Gothic, Romany, Baroque, Renaissance,combination of Chinese and western building styles.Part Four , by some typology analysis, the author give a show of modern Christian churches in Wuhan from the follow aspects: form of plan , form of elevation, interior space and the ornaments.Part Five indicates the achievements of modern Catholic churches in Wuhan and its historical cultural value and characteristic of architectural art.