Research On The External Form Feature Of Large And Medium Sized Modern Temples In China

The rapid development of the country today, Buddhism has encountered vigorous opportunities and new challenges. Architecture, as the carrier of Buddhism culture, its progress and development direction has been regarded with very high importance. Modern Buddhist architecture is highly constrained by traditional architectural form, but also experiencing practice and innovation in order to establish a dialogue with modern architecture. In this paper will explore the development of Chinese Buddhist architecture modernization through a wide range of research and analysis. In this paper, with a substantial example of medium-sized modern temples, in terms of functional of structures, spatial layout and architectural forms the current situation and trend of modern Buddhist architecture were discussed.Brief introduction of the origin and significance of the studies of the Chinese Buddhist architecture, culture and other aspects of Buddhist theories finding the basis of the theories. Reviewing of the development of traditional temple architecture, summary of traditional temple building classification and spatial layout of each classification, which provides the basis for the development of the follow-up article research and the theoretical framework.The impact of external morphological characteristics of modern temples from four aspects; modern Buddhism, secular society, technology and materials. Categorization of medium-sized modern spatial layout temples in China and examples of local specialties space. Explanation of main features of the outside space of modern temple and their major overall layout. In the influence of the traditional architectural, of the integration of modern temple with modern architecture. The modernized and abundant expression of Buddhism prospect and Buddhist symbol by incorporating the concept of modern construction, construction technology and new materialsSummary of the study in this paper, Limitations of this study and further development and modernization of temple architecture. Under the current background seeking for practical direction for development, which is different from traditional temple architecture.