建筑展览的“厚度”(上)——重读魏森霍夫住宅博览会

On the Richness of Architectural Exhibitio(nPart One) ——A Rereading of the Weissenhofsiedlung

通过对20世纪20年代背景的简要回顾,文章再次审视了1927年于德国举办的魏森霍夫住宅博览会。在对其总图嬗变背后所体现的争执、主要单体建筑的设计以及最终结果与目标设定之间差异的阐述中,对这一展览进行了多层次多方位的呈现,并通过这种呈现集中展示了展览对于早期现代建筑的重要性,揭示了住宅在社会剧烈变动时期的重要作用和核心地位,并由此对照了现代建筑及现代意义上的建筑师在中国与西方之间的差异。

Through a brief retrospection of the circumstances of the 1920s, the paper sets to re-examine the German Weissenhofsiedlung held in 1927 and thus presents the whole process and its multiplicity from the perspectives of the controversial overalllayout, the designs of the main individual buildings and the deviations of the ultimate outcome from the presupposed aims and disciplines With this presentation, the paper focuses on the critical role of exhibition in the modern architecture in its early days and thus brings to light the significance and core status of the public housing in a society of radical changes The paper at last displays the different views toward the modern architecture and the different rotes of architects in China as compared to that in the West.