In my hometown, I only talk about pastoral vegetable fields, and going to town is limited to buying some fish or adding some clothes. I live in a city now, and I have never talked about architecture like this. I think the influence of architecture on a city is beyond doubt.
Shuttling through the busy and changeable cities, you will find that architecture has almost become the only protagonist and symbol here, especially those landmark buildings that dominate the lifeline of the city, such as Eiffel in France, London Bridge in Britain, Pearl Tower in Shanghai and Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou. These buildings give people the illusion that the city is famous for its architecture, and the architecture is outside the city. Isn't architecture a part and subject of urban life? No matter how to highlight the role and charm of architecture, life comes first.
This reminds me of a photo I saw recently at the ABBS Architecture Forum-a sketch of the new urban environment by the French architectural team: conceptually, the car lanes have narrowed and given way to wider bicycle lanes and sidewalks, breaking the concept of the general green isolation belt (four lanes in two directions and six lanes in two directions). The ratio of automobile lane to bicycle lane is planned as 1: 1, and the city is * *. No matter how feasible the plan is and how long it will take to realize it, I think it will give a great warning to the makers of urban troubles (cars and big buildings): what kind of life we need and what kind of space we need.
Our life is our ideal, and urban architecture is an effective way to realize the ideal of this city, and the building itself carries too many ideals of construction teams.
Up to now, I still can't adapt to and conquer tall buildings. Although I'm not afraid of heights, I love mountain climbing. Therefore, Hangzhou has become an ideal place for my temporary life. There are no landmark buildings, no abrupt buildings, no strange buildings (architects who like to look for strange shapes should pay attention, and introspection is the true meaning of architecture). No matter how fashionable and trendy the times in Qianjiang New Town and along the Yangtze River are, what we can't give up most is the life concept brought by West Lake culture and Qianjiang agitation-Bai Juyi.
I also thought of Xiuzhi Huang, a "dude" reported by FT Rui magazine. He has no hobbies all his life, and enjoys collecting old houses. He tried his best to take down all his favorite "rotten houses" (worthless houses in the administrative sense), and then hired a group of professional craftsmen of ancient buildings to demolish them according to the number, according to 1: 65438.
Mr. Kengo Kuma, a famous Japanese architect, likes to play with "disappearing architecture"-hiding prominent buildings and softening rigid buildings, which reveals the spirit of the master and Zen Buddhism in his bones. Returning may really be a way out for architects.
Return? Regression is two-way, life returns to its original state, and buildings return to dust.