The Influence of Natural Landscape and the Chinese Traditions on the Transformations of Art Nouveau and National Romanticism Architecture in China
The Influence of Natural Landscape and the Chinese Traditions on the Transformations of Art Nouveau and National Romanticism Architecture in China

Summary/Abstract: This theme connects with problems of function, protection and restoration of more than 200 objects of the Art Nouveau heritage in China. The main changes between the European Art Nouveau and Chinese version of Art Nouveau connected with differences in natural landscape. The specific features of nature in different parts of China explain that the Art Nouveau objects and objects of North National Romanticism in German settlement Qingdao with subtropical climate differ strongly from similar objects at Russian settlements Harbin, Shenyang and Dalyan in Northern-East part of China. Different methods are used traditionally to study historical styles and architectural monuments together with traditional research methods, the main method of the systematic-structural analysis was used for the study. This method determines Art Nouveau in Chinese architecture as a holistic phenomenon with a semantic manifestation at different hierarchical levels. It determined the specifics of the main and regional centers and the creation of a theoretical basis for the protection and restoration of Art Nouveau objects in China in natural environment. In research was determined at the base of methodology of system-structural analyze that the Art Nouveau objects in China differs strongly from the European examples of Art Nouveau and North National Romanticism not only in forms but more in natural environment. There is the original situation of existing the brutal gray objects of North National Romanticism with granite blocks among the colors of Chinese landscape, that is why its determines the protection not only the Art Nouveau buildings but the natural arrangement too. There are big town territories in China with concentrated location of existing Art Nouveau objects and actual proposition is to transform these territories into the protective national parks and touristic zones.

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