![]() | Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts Subjects: Architecture Chinese -- 20th century -- Congresses; Architecture -- China -- Western influences -- Congresses; Eclecticism in architecture -- China -- Congresses; In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the École des Beaux-Arts converged in the United States when Chinese students were given scholarships to train as architects at American universities whose design curricula were dominated by Beaux-Arts methods. Upon their return home in the 1920s and 1930s, these graduates began to practice architecture and create China's first architectural schools, often transferring a version of what they had learned in the U.S. to Chinese situations. The resulting complex series of design-related transplantations had major implications for China between 1911 and 1949, as it simultaneously underwent cataclysmic social, economic, and political changes. After 1949 and the founding of the People's Republic, China experienced a radically different wave of influence from the Beaux-Arts through advisors from the Soviet Union who, first under Stalin and later Khrushchev, brought Beaux-Arts ideals in the guise of socialist progress. In the early twenty-first century, China is still feeling the effects of these events. Cody Jeffrey W. : Jeffrey W. Cody is senior project specialist in the Education Department at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles.Steinhardt Nancy Shatzman : Nancy S. Steinhardt is professor of East Asian art and curator of Chinese art at the University of Pennsylvania.Atkin Tony : Tony Atkin, FAIA, is adjunct associate professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design and a principal of Atkin Olshin Schade Architects in Philadelphia and Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
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