Initial Exploration on Post World War Ⅱ Taiwan Regional Architecturtural Expression

This thesis is focus on Post World WarⅡRegional Architecture Expressions in Taiwan as its study domain.Its goal is aiming on to look into the essence and culture on contemporary Taiwan and its future development.Taiwan,the island of Formosa,went through a series of governments,such as:Dutch,and Hispanic era,Ming and Manchu Dynasties,the Empire of Japan,and for the time being on "R.O.C.State" ruling influences.After accepting the impact from post WWⅡWestern style on architectural concepts as well as influences from later post modem several theories,Regional Architecture expression of Taiwan displays multi aspects on its landscape.Furthermore, the relief on ideological structure and wakeup of localism consciousness combines with localism concepts from the ideas of contemporary architect,therefore their influences are quite obvious.Applying time as section axis,the post WWⅡTaiwan Regional Architecture forms can be described and categorized into 3 periods:At the early stage of post WWⅡ,to drop out the colonial culture is essential while ruling by R.O.C.In the era of nationalism conscious was in high tide,during that era,the Regional Architecture culture was emphasis on the Chinese culture to be resurged. On the stage of self-identity of localism was aimed to find its own roots.During the high tide of local culture wakeup.In that era,the Regional Architecture culture was emphases to present the multi-aspects on Taiwanese own localism architectures.Reflection era of contemporary architectural thoughts,under the influences from globalized concept and localism considerations.During that era of architectural culture was described as back to the reality environment in Taiwan society.This study is trying to search for the sequence ideas from historical culture development,in order to find out its future developmental direction and path for Taiwan Regional Architecture culture.With its final goal is to expect to hold the experience of Taiwan own architectural design with localism by itself,in order to provide the positive and advanced concepts on Mainland China and Taiwan which would be focus on localism culture with its multi- aspects repeated impacts.However,in the end,it is still important to apply the principle of "To do what is suitable for the environment",based on its "Geographic ethic".Also,it is important to put the humanism and natural environmental and ecological concern into considerations to come out further dialogue and interaction. The main structure of this thesis would like to describe culture ideological background on Chapter 2,as well as applying dynamic period of time as section axis to study its history on Chapter 3 for further research and conclude the expressional spirits from post WWⅡ Taiwan Regional Architecture culture,along with the help from Chapter 4 which was focus on case study as introduction.It is my hope within those limited chapters can be expressed noticeably to the inner structure and spirit of Taiwan Regional Architecture culture in order to inspire and uncover the ideas and creations from Taiwan architectures for the aspect of regional.