ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the contributions made for regional modernism in China. Four architects, Xi Fuquan, Hsia Changshi, Feng Jizhong, and Shang Kuo, are studied; their search for an architecture based on function, climate, and structural features of a local tradition, from the 1930s to the 1980s, is analyzed. It is found that, though they worked in separation and didn’t form a group or a movement, they shared comparable intentions, ideas, and methods, in sustaining and developing a local building tradition into a modern architecture without mimicry of styles – a direction in the architecture of modern China that deserves close observation.
