The Analysis Of Architectural Ideas And Works Of Antoine Predock

In recent years, with the rapid economic development, China’s construction marketincreasingly opens, many foreign architects come to China bringing a fresh breath anda variety of architectural thought. In pluralism impact and influence, how do Chinesearchitects deal with the relationship between modernity and aborinigality and embarkon a path of independent innovation, is a achallenging topic worth thinking about andresearching.This paper selected the western United States architect Antoine·Predock’sarchitectural ideas and major works for the study. Through the induction of hiscreative background, summary of the design ideas and analysis of his works fromdifferent periods, we can explore how Predock capture the spirit of the site, deeplyunearch the culture and focus on “person”—the user group of the architecture, andthen penetrate these idea into the design throughout the entire process of architecturalcreation. So he creates a large number of works that form an organic whole with theenvironment and be full of strong personal emotion. For Chinese architects, how tocreate buildings full of domestic features and also modernity, the paper’s analysis andresearch will provide us a certain significance and multifaceted revelation.