沈理源:摆荡于“古典”与“折中”之间

小盐官家庭出身 沈理源,1890年出生于浙江杭县,今余杭区,为浙江省杭州市下管辖的一个区.余杭中的“杭”,实为地名;“余”,则是古越语中“盐”的意思,没有任何的含义.而沈理源,诞生在清光绪年间的一个小盐官家庭,家里终年负责盐铁的销售,并回收废铁,而家里面从盐铁专卖中所获得的巨大利润,全都需上交给中央政府.

SHEN LIYUAN'S PENDULUM

Huang Yuanshao writes that Shen Liyuan was born into a salt merchant family in 1890 and attended Nanyang School in Shanghai, where he absorbed traditional values. However, he was a bright student and received a scholarship to attend university in Italy, where his education included Western neo-classicism. On his return to China, Shen Liyuan worked during the pivotal 1930s and 1940s, when high modernist theory and aesthetics dominated architectural practice. Shen Liyuan’sfamiliarity with three traditions – traditional Chinese, neo-classical Western, and high modernism necessarily shaped the architect’s most representative works in Beijing and Tianjin. Indeed, Huang Yuanshao interprets these works as the concrete manifestation of Shen Liyuan’s efforts to negotiate these contradictions, swinging between the classical and compromise in his efforts to design modern Chinese buildings.