Chimera Architecture Salon | Session 1 | The Evolution of Postwar Taiwan Architecture

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“Modern Life: Taiwan Architecture 1949—1983” examines the issues and cultural factors that influenced the context of architectural development in Taiwan between 1949 and 1983. The exhibition reveals the new transformations that Taiwan faced after the end of World War II. From the migration of the national government to Taiwan, the era of beauty and dignity, and the modern era, Taiwan's culture of life gradually moved out of the shadow of political ideology and into the modern era of freedom of living, while opening a door to the imagination of “freedom”.。 WHILE EXPLORING AND LONGING FOR MODERNITY, ARCHITECTURE BECOMES A WINDOW INTO THE CULTURAL CHANGES OF POST-WAR LIFE IN TAIWAN. The existence of the building entity also imprints the authenticity of the life cultural event, and thus the building becomes a tangible cultural form of interaction with the life cultural event.

A “new factor” was added at each stage of postwar development, not completely overturning the old rules, but instead closely aligned with the old ones. The first Salon will provide a more comprehensive discussion of the prelude to the exhibition: inviting Huang Junming, Director of the Taiwan Institute of Modern Architecture, from the point of view of architecture and art history, to look at the period in which there was not much ink in the exhibition, to discuss the architectural talent, technology, techniques, architectural knowledge, regulations, etc. Concatenate the two pre-war and post-war eras to lead the audience to understand the continuity of all kinds of building factors.