The Research On The Conception And Works Of Shadrach Woods

In the post-war Western Europe rapid changes had occurred everywhere. In historical cities Modernization was a wide-ranging phrase in society, in culture, in realistic form etc. In 1950 s and 1960 s, Shadrach Woods was a noted American architect, urban planner and theorist who joined the Paris office of Le Corbusier and then participated in the inner circle of Team X. Throughout his work and theories humanism and regionalism are main concepts, which can refine the heritage of the material association and spatial practice from the historical city tissue in the perspective of social ethnology. It unfolded rich reference value concepts in the development of modern architecture and urban of our country.Shadrach Woods committed to the harmony between social environment and people, therefore searched the key notion of the heritage of urban context continuation continuously. In the base understanding of humanism and regionalism, he believes it is everyone’s right to live in a comfortable environment. In the practices of dwelling projects on the colonial grounds of North Africa, Woods call the plea to combine the modern housing design with the material reality and the dwelling culture as to optimize the dwelling environment. Therefore he pulled up a banner in Team X that underlines the critique of functionalist of CIAM in the radical postwar period.It is the rigid designing concept that had become shackles of the rapid development of postwar urban environment in Europe. The series of Stem and Web concepts showed the perspectice of understanding urban and building as a whole. Taking the contact between the material world and the social association as a theoretical basis for designing, the overall development process of development from the point, the line to the entirety unfolded the constant concerning of mobility and growth.This paper attempts to sum up the approach to architecture and urban realm in the research and projects of Shadrach Woods. Therefore the writer analyses his theories in the perspectives of the historical context and the development of social ethnology, which can unfold the origin of the traceability. I hope to reveal a silver lining to our study of modernism through this process of the traces of history.