Rebirth: The Great Designer

Vol 2 Chapter 746: The Essence and Soul of Modern Chinese Architecture

Ningbo, with rich cultural heritage and long history and culture, is a typical water town and seaport city in the south of the Yangtze River. It is the estuary at the southern end of China's Grand Canal.

It has been two months since Su Leqing proposed marriage. After the proposal was successful, Su Leqing and Lin Mengyue started the long-prepared tour, and Lin Mengyue made the tour route early and went first. The place is the place where their class organized the tour - Pearl Spring.

Su Leqing and Lin Mengyue expressed a lot of emotion about this place. This seems to be the place where Su Leqing confessed to Lin Mengyue for the first time, and then the Jiangxiang Village Scenic Spot in Changshu City. Su Leqing naturally brought Lin Mengyue there. I visited Secretary Chang. After so many years, Secretary Chang has retired, but he still remembers Su Leqing clearly. That night, Secretary Chang led the villagers to hold a grand welcome party, and when he saw Lin Meng It was rare for the old secretary to jokingly ask him if he remembered Bi Qian, the accountant in the village back then.

Su Leqing pretended to be stupid and said that she didn't remember, but Lin Mengyue was very interested in Su Leqing's experience, and pestered the old secretary to talk about it.

I learned from the old secretary that after he left, Bi Qian waited for two years, but she didn't see Su Leqing coming over. In the end, due to family pressure, she chose to marry. Su Leqing could only express regret for this. Qian is a girl with the same kind of gentle personality as Lin Mengyue, but unfortunately the two of them just met by chance and had no fate.

After leaving Jiangxiang Village, the two returned to the capital, toured the Forbidden City, climbed the Great Wall, and experienced the majesty of the Great Wall...

Xi'an...

Chengdu...

Kaifeng...

Hangzhou...

Suzhou...

In two months, the two can say that they have turned half of China around, and Su Leqing has also experienced the characteristics of buildings in various places.

In the past, Su Leqing always wanted to travel around to see the characteristics of the buildings, but this time he finally got his wish.

And their last stop was Ningbo, and Su Leqing’s destination was the Ningbo Museum, which was built for two years. The reason why they came here is mainly because this building is the Chinese architect Wang who won the Pritzker Prize in 2012. Shu designed.

This Master Wang Shu is also considered a madman. Because his mother is a librarian, he started to read some books translated from abroad since he was a child, and even read all kinds of books when he went to university.

At that time, the Cultural Revolution had just passed, and there was a serious shortage of talents in colleges and universities, which resulted in that the level of teachers was not as good as that of Wang Shu, and he himself said that the comparison between what the teacher said and what he saw was superficial, naive, conservative and outdated. He was able to preview three days in advance, and he could silence the teacher's questions in class. At that time, he was young and frivolous, and such words were always on his lips.

And he also paid the price for his youth and frivolity. In his dissertation, he directly put forward a "three no theory", saying that China has no modern architectural theory, no modern architects, and no modern architecture.

Although this paper was unanimously approved by the supervisor judges, it was beeped in the hands of the paper review committee.

After all, those thesis review committees are all modern architects in China. As a result, you wrote in this paper that there are no modern architects, no modern architecture, and no modern architectural theory in China. Isn’t this a slap in the face?

Therefore, Master Wang Shu finally failed to get a master's degree.

And this master Wang Shu is also arrogant. At that time, it was in 1988, the climax of reform and opening up, and designers at home and abroad were gearing up to show their talents, but he retreated bravely and chose to live in seclusion in Hangzhou, together with construction workers. Life, at that time, Chinese architects only had fast and money on their minds, and nothing else at all, but Master Wang Shu was thinking about what kind of road to take. In the ten years of retirement, he has almost nothing. A remarkable architectural work, but such a person won the first and only Pritzker Architecture Prize in China in 2012.

After ten years of sharpening a sword, a sharp edge has emerged!

Overnight, Wang Shu became the most famous architect at home and abroad.

Su Leqing still admires this master very much, but unfortunately he has never been able to see him.

In the past two months, he naturally did not do anything. After reading the base information provided by Huawei, he had been mulling design plans in his mind, but although there were many plans, they lacked the most important ones. The core idea is how to build modern Chinese architecture.

Before that, the modern buildings he designed could only be regarded as foreign modern buildings, and if he wanted to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, he could only design modern buildings with his own national characteristics, that is, Chinese-style modern architecture. architecture.

This seems to be a very simple proposition. As long as the building is mixed with some Chinese elements, it can be called modern Chinese architecture, but this is only the most superficial and superficial. If there are no Chinese elements, others will see this The Architectural Association knew for the first time that this was a modern Chinese-style building, and this was the essence and soul of modern Chinese-style architecture.

Undoubtedly, the highest achievement in this regard must belong to Master Wang Shu, so Su Leqing is going to come and visit the Ningbo Museum to see if he can learn or comprehend something from it.

"Le Qing, why is the top of this museum slanted?" Lin Mengyue asked as she walked under the museum.

Su Leqing looked up and down and said, "The architectural form of Ningbo Museum is designed with mountain, water and ocean as its design concepts~www.readwn.com~ The first floor is a whole, but from the second floor, the building begins to be divided and inclined to form a mountain shape. Combined with the waters in the northern part of the venue, the whole building resembles a ship coming ashore."

"This architectural pattern reflects Ningbo's geography and its characteristics as a port city. The walls of the museum are decorated in two ways. The first way is to use millions of Ming and Qing bricks collected by folks to build tiles by hand. The wall reflects the characteristics of Jiangnan and the concept of saving, and another method uses bamboo strips to add concrete to show the texture of bamboo on the surface, reflecting the concept of environmental protection.”

"And didn't you notice that when we walked under the museum, the two sides looked like the alleys in the Jiangnan water town? The whole building does not have many Chinese elements in it, but it can make people feel a strong Chinese style. The hand-built tiled walls with clear bricks and tiles give people a heavy sense of history, and the green bamboo next to them is the finishing touch. As expected, he is a master, and it is no wonder that he won the Pritzker Architecture Prize." Su Leqing looked at it. Side sighed.

At the beginning, he failed to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, and he was a little unconvinced in his heart, but when he saw this, he was truly convinced, and only such a master can win such an honor.

"Let's go, let's go into the museum." Su Leqing took Lin Mengyue's hand and walked in.

As soon as he entered the museum, Su Leqing felt that the atmosphere was not right, because there were too many people inside, and there were even a lot of reporters.

"Isn't this Master Wang Shu?" Su Leqing said with great joy.

"Yes, this is the first time that Master Wang Shu has returned to the Ningbo Museum after winning the Pritzker Architecture Prize." The reporter next to him replied while taking pictures.

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