Lecture Series on Bauhaus Centenary and the 1st Memorial Anniversary of Da-Hong Wang| Theme 1: Rustic & Poetic—Architecture in Postwar Taiwan: Modern Architecture in Taiwan after WWII

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After World War II, Taiwan's architecture underwent profound changes, with an impact that has not been closed to date. First, the historicism of the prewar architectural mainstream was replaced almost overnight by modernist architecture. Secondly, the construction professionals were mainly occupied by Japanese people before the war, and the vacuum left behind by Japanese people after the war, was mostly occupied by people from mainland Taiwan after the relocation of the National People's Government. Moreover, there was no professional system of architects before the war, and with the advent of post-war rule by the People's Government, it was imposed in Taiwan. Finally, university architecture education, which was unheard of before the war, also emerged in Taiwan. This series of lectures uses this historical change as a scripture, covering four themes of Modernism, Christian Architecture, Roughism, and Chinese Modern Architecture, and attempts to open up a discussion of this little-noticed history of architecture. The theme is “Theme 1: Rude and Poetic Post-War Taiwan Architecture - Modern Architecture in Post-World War II Taiwan”.