Taiwan's architecture: dreams or nightmares for a modern China
Citation
ARCH : the Asian magazine of architecture, design and visual communications, no.7, 1990, pp. 20-28
Abstract
The architecture of Taiwan is a bewildering mixture of styles and periods. Both Western modernism and Chinese traditional expression exist side by side; the urban co-existing gamely alongside the rural and ethnic. Yet, while oddly striking aspects cannot be denied, there nevertheless exists a certain vitality, a delightful gregariousness, which is one of the greatest charms of Taiwanese architecture. And as for the question of how the architects of the country find their inspiration, how they resolve the never-ending conflict between East and West, the past and the present, the urban and the rural - that is a question which not only cannot be answered - perhaps to answer it is even a contradiction in terms.
(1) Only in Taiwan
(2) Chinese culture is just too unusual
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Date
1990
Language
en