"Many cities in the west have an important feature. They have a long and splendid history and culture, but their economy is backward. The status of the city in China is a bit like that of China in the world, full of vicissitudes and sufferings. The whole society is in a state of extreme self-confidence and inferiority, and the creation of architects is more complicated and contradictory ... "Zhao Ceng wrote in the article Xi's Architectural Creation. Indeed, it will take a long time for architectural creation to be recognized by the society and stand the test of the times. In this process, the efforts made by architects are unimaginable to ordinary people. They carry out field research, check the terrain, understand the environment and revise the drawings ... one process after another, and they have no regrets, which stems from their persistence in architectural creation and their pursuit of architectural art. Sometimes, in order to make every detail perfect, they have to do ideological work for Party A repeatedly until they are recognized. Therefore, the creative process of architects is the process of reappearing the original appearance of life and the highest interpretation of people's living life. Architectural creation should respect the times and civilization. "I am against total westernization and total China, and advocate total digestion ..." Zhao said. We have no reason to reject any correct design concept, advanced architectural design and mature construction experience. Maybe Xi 'an Old Town doesn't need landmark buildings. Its symbol lies in the urban pattern, history and culture. Respect for the city and context should be the most basic architectural elements of architects. There used to be a slogan: "Form obeys function" and "Form obeys climate", which is not comprehensive. I think it is necessary to add "form obeys the city". The city is bigger than the architectural design, so neutral architectural techniques are adopted, and more words are added to the existing urban syntax, such as Jinshi International Building, Natural Science Museum of Northwest University, and Catering Conference Center of Xi People's Building. However, almost all of these buildings have their own spatial characteristics. The key is to deal with the relationship between buildings and places. Any good building, whether it is the protagonist or the supporting role, should make positive contributions to its position. I advocate respecting the city and civilization, but I also advocate respecting the times. With the era of architecture, cities need to be constantly updated to reflect their historical changes. The form and style of architectural design is not the most important subject of architectural design. It is generally believed that Xi 'an South Street is a European-style building named "Zhong Da International", which has destroyed the style of the ancient city. However, I think it is acceptable in terms of scale and neighborhood relations. On the contrary, some antique buildings in West Street are too large in scale and too imitative in form. Although the former has western architectural style, it can also be divided into primary and secondary, just like the stone students in front of Ganling. Although he is a lot of conference semifinals in the western regions, he is still a supporting role. The latter is the so-called respect on the scale. Zhao said that the shortcoming of our generation of architects lies in their understanding of China's traditional culture. The first generation of architects in China made great achievements because they studied Chinese and Western cultures. We should make up the courses of "traditional culture" and "modernism". Especially for Xi 'an's architects. Urban background is very important in urban architectural design. Xi 'an is a world-famous historical ancient capital with a history of more than 365,438+000 years. Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Bell Tower and Little Wild Goose Pagoda have become postcards displayed by Xi people. But now, there are many new tall buildings around the city. The bell tower is no longer a standout, but a standout. The most well-protected city wall in the Millennium ancient capital was submerged in many new buildings, so I also have a lot of doubts. One of them is what a good city should look like. In addition, on the issue of architectural innovation, we feel that the city needs to have a more comprehensive understanding of the whole city, so I have deepened my thinking on urban background architecture. In my understanding of a city, the urban environment should form a good basemap relationship, background buildings form an important element of urban architecture, and a large number of background buildings and landmark buildings in the city should form a perfect basemap relationship. In some cases, the map can be reversed. Personally, I think that many elegant streets in Paris constitute the elegant humanistic characteristics of Paris, and romantic Parisians appear red and white under the gray architectural background, which constitutes a rich urban life. The creation of urban background buildings generally refers to many new buildings next to the heritage. Establish an important cultural center of Belem in Leeds, Spain. The central part is the heritage built in16th century, and it is the cultural center of Belem. The architect extended the huge volume level, talked with the monastery by scale, and split the building unit into parts, making some cuts in the middle, which made the building feel not very huge. In some units, some practices of monasteries have been repeated. The division of vertical units makes the building more intimate, and many courtyards are formed inside. No matter from the perspective of new buildings or old buildings, we can see that a relatively harmonious city is formed as a whole. Design can protect the original appearance at the same time, which is the highest realm of architectural creation. Xi People's Mansion is the earliest, largest and highest standard foreign-related hotel in Xi in 1950s. It is located on the side of Xi 'an Emperor City, and its overall scale is relatively large, which is completely integrated with the urban texture of Xi 'an. In the past 50 years, it has also been a very good landmark building in Xi 'an. The overall architectural style is a bit of a combination of Chinese and western styles, with western classical domes and China octagonal double-eaves forgings. A lot of decoration has become a very worthwhile thing to do in Xi' As far as the overall pattern is concerned, the central axis of traditional buildings in China is symmetrical, but we can also see the practice of traditional palaces in Paris, which is very constant. Several corners are all regular shapes, and only after careful geometric analysis can the scale of the courtyard have a spatial pattern. On the other hand, it is characterized by exquisite details of decoration, including construction quality, and interior decoration also embodies many traditional features of China. We also have a chance to rebuild the whole project. At that time, we defined some principles for our reconstruction. First of all, we think we should protect this building seriously. Maybe we don't care about what has been built, but what landmarks of the city have been protected by this generation of architects. This was an improved general plan at that time. Second, the construction department should build a connector connecting the catering conference center to Building 1 and expand some public halls of the auditorium. In the process of these changes, some have been realized, and some have not. From the appearance, all the external shapes of the people's mansion can be completely preserved, and the surface can be sandblasted. Coupled with the protective agent of fair-faced concrete, the People's Building has protected the memory of the city as a whole, and its overall appearance has also taken on a new look. The transformation of other buildings is mainly to adapt the interior decoration to modern standards, and the theater is also completely transformed according to some modern facilities of our theater at present, but the style basically retains our intention of building in the early 1950 s. There are many controversies about the addition of Building No.3, including how to combine the old with the new and how to reflect the architectural style. And its scale. In the past, the small building on the first floor and the second floor of the catering banquet hall has been unrecognizable with the continuous construction. The newly-built part hopes to increase the practical function of 1 10,000 square meters to meet the shortage of public space in the original building. The part we protect is only a few hundred square meters, which is the front porch. The problem we encounter is the proportional relationship and the volume relationship between the increased volume and the protected building. We only protect the second and third floors, and the new building needs to add 10 thousand square meters. This is our problem. This is a question of architectural style, and we have had many arguments. Part of it should be to protect and continue the past style, but after analysis, this is a banquet hall with great functions, another is a restaurant and lounge, and another is a reception center. At that time, we also insisted on protecting the part in the original way, and the newly-built part insisted on different creative methods, so that the People's Building could see its changes and show its vitality in the 50-year creative process. Talking about the connection between old and new buildings. We have adopted the method of slightly extending symbols in some details, so that the new and the old have a certain connection, which is the relationship between the new and the old in the overall architectural landscape. There are basically no new buildings, but the complete historical pattern of the People's Building has been maintained. Xi 'an Administrative Center, Chanba Ecological Zone Administrative Center and Shizuishan Administrative Center are under construction. Zhao feels that after so many years of architectural creation, he has great feelings for architecture. In fact, creation itself is not difficult. It is difficult to convince the owners that these buildings are background buildings. The window opening part reflects the practice of Xi 'an architecture, and the overall building is very peaceful, which is more conducive to protecting landmark buildings or highlighting landmark buildings.