华盖建筑(上):从共同“任教”到“创建”、“执业”的初期阶段(1928—1933)

ALLIED ARCHITECTS(I)

前后期同学、同事、合伙 华盖建筑事务所（＂华盖建筑＂）,由赵深、陈植与童寯于1933年刊报公告成立,3人皆毕业于＂（北京）清华学校＂与＂（美国）宾夕法尼亚大学＂建筑系,是前后期的同学。 早年,赵深是陈植、童寯在＂（北京）清华学校＂的学长,出国留学后,赵深又是陈植、童寯在＂（美国）宾夕法尼亚大学＂建筑系的学长,他又早于陈植、童寯回国发展（1927年）,先在其他事务所任职。1931年,赵深自办＂（上海）赵深建筑师事务所＂,不久后,与陈植合办＂（上海）赵深陈植建筑师事务所＂（1931年）。1933年,赵深与陈植、童寓共同创办”（上海）华盖建筑事务所”（“华盖建筑“）。

In AW 152, the Huang Yuanzhao focused his historical analysis of modern Chinese architecture on the individual designs of Zhao Shen. In this, article he turns his analytic gaze to early educational and aesthetic influences on Zhao Shen's partners at Allied Architects, Chen Zhi and Dong Jun. As with many of their contemporaries, Chen Zhi and Dong Jun literally embodied China's transition from traditional to modern forms. Although Dong Jun was ethnically Manchurian, for example, his father began his childhood education in 1907 by enrolling him in one of the new styled enlightenment schools that flourished during the last years of the Qing Dynasty. Similarly, Chen Zhi, for example was born into a traditional family in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, before earning his undergraduate degree from Qinghua University(1923) and completing a M.Arch at the University of Pennsylvania in 1928. In 1933, Chen Zhi and Dong Jun joined Zhao Shen to form Allied Architects. Over the next two decades, the firm would be instrumental in assimilating the American Beaux-Arts tradition into what became the Shanghai Modern sensibility.