How Can Urban Architecture Contribute to a Better Life
—On the Relationship between Architecture, People, Environment and History in
Line with Modernist Architecture Movement
School of Foreign Languages, Shandong University of Finance and Economics
Abstract：Influenced by the Descartesian mathematical model, Modernist architects, with a preference for unity, purity, standard and normality, take more functionalist and rationalist factors into their considerations. Modernist urban architecture ignores the particular demands of its users, is nonchalant to its neighbors, and rejects tradition. Modernist city planners overstress some interests, but fail to meet the overall demands of humanity. They try to recreate a Utopia through rational designing, but instead usher in universal repression. In city planning, how to take the relationship between architecture, people, environment and history into full consideration so as to build a really humanistic urban environment in our city building plan is what we need learn from Modernist architecture.
陈后亮. 城市建筑，如何让生活更美好
——从现代建筑运动反思建筑与人、环境和历史的关系[J]. 江苏大学学报（社会科学版）, 2011, 13(6): 19-24.
Chen Houliang. How Can Urban Architecture Contribute to a Better Life
—On the Relationship between Architecture, People, Environment and History in
Line with Modernist Architecture Movement. Journal of Jiangsu University（Social Science Editi, 2011, 13(6): 19-24.
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