Part One: Modernism, Post-Modernism and Postmortem Of Architecture and Architects
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Building journal Hong Kong China, Aug, 1991, pp. 36-38
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There was once a rich man who was very envious of his neighhour's three-storey house. He found the carpenter who built the house and asked him to build one exactly the same. When the carpenter started to dig the ground for foundations, the rich man stopped him and said, "I want you to build a building as tall as my neighbour. Why do you dig the ground?" The carpenter said "Sir, to build as high as three storeys, I must have a good foundation. Then I will build the basement, the first floor and finally the second floor. You cannot just have the second floor in the air without the lower floors!"
Architecture has different meanings to different people. Different nations have different ways of building throughout the ages until now, at least for the so-called modern cities, which look more or less the same. In this first installment in a series he calls "Modernism, Post-Modernism and Postmortern," Chung Wah-nan examines the factors he feels go into an architect's persona and approach to design and life.
(1)Architeccture before architects
(2)Concentration of Population
(3)Many faces of architecture
(4)Many faces of an architect
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1991
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en