当代中国的消费梦想与建筑狂欢 1992年以来

Consumption Dreams and Architectural Carnival in China Since 1992

1992年以来,消费主义文化逐渐成为中国社会的一种主导文化,社会整体的消费梦想构成建筑实践的主要动力,从而引发当代中国的建筑狂欢。通过剖析消费梦想的三方面内涵:"身体的快感"(物质)、"身份的想象"(社会)和"价值的颠覆"(精神),文章指出与之相应的建筑狂欢主要表现为:"狂喜的建筑"、"最大差异的建筑"和"越界的建筑",这是建筑业的活力之源,但也造成资源浪费、社会隔离和文化失序等危机。文章最后提出,中国当代建筑师需要在不可回避的消费主义文化语境中寻找契机,旨在创造具有日常性、当代性、地方性、多样性和原创性的建成环境,构筑"世俗的乌托邦"。

Since 1992,the culture of consumerism is growing into a dominant social and cultural circumstance in China.Consumption dreams of the whole society plays a major role in building activities and results in an architectural carnival.The consumption dreams could be analysed in three aspects：physical pleasure,identity imagination and subversion of values,and the architectural carnival means architecture boasting of hilarity＇, maximum difference and over guide-lines,which might lead to a booming of the built environment but at the same time a waste of resource and energy,causing social exclusion and cultural disorder.At last,the paper suggests that Chinese contemporary architects should explore opportunities from this inevitable social-cultural context and engage in creating a built environment with ordionariness,contemporancity,locality,variety and originality as a＂Secular Utopia＂.