From Windhuk to Tsingtau and Samoa. German-colonial architecture: from a global construction project around 1900 to a transcultural heritage today?

自1884年以来，德意志帝国除了历史悠久的英国、法国和荷兰之外，成为世界上第四大殖民大国。在这种背景下，德国殖民主义是其在非洲（德属东非和西南非洲、喀麦隆和多哥）、东亚（今天中国的青岛/基亚茨胡）和大洋洲（德属几内亚和萨摩亚）的殖民地，在其地缘政治背景下是一个真正的全球项目。尽管它存在的时间相当短，只有大约30年（1884-1914），但它产生了惊人的丰富和广泛的建设活动。它的结构遗迹出人意料地完好保存至今。本研究项目以双重项目设计回应了这一背景：模块1（称为德国殖民建筑1884-1914 -一个全球项目）旨在从其结构全球化的历史角度概念化这种建筑活动，而模块2（称为德国殖民建筑作为一种跨文化遗产）旨在从当代的角度解决德国殖民影响的建筑遗迹，作为一种共享的建筑遗产，跨越三大洲，并参考回到德国本身。

Since 1884 did the German Empire, besides the long-established powers of Great Britain, France and the Netherlands, become the fourth-largest colonial power worldwide. Being a characteristic feature in this context, German colonialism was, with its colonies in Africa (German East- and Southwest Africa, Cameroon and Togo), East Asia (Tsingtau/Kiatschou in today China) and Oceania (German Guinea and Samoa) a truly global project within its geopolitical setup, and it produced, despite its rather short period of existence of mere some thirty years (1884-1914), an astonishingly rich and extensive construction activity, the structural remains of which survived surprisingly well until today. This research project reacts to this context with a twofold project design: Module 1 (termed German-colonial architecture 1884-1914 - a global project) aims to conceptualise this construction activity from a historical viewpoint in its structural globality, whereas Module 2 (termed German colonial architecture as a transcultural heritage) aims to tackle the architectural remains of the German-colonial impact from a contemporary perspective backwards as a kind of shared build heritage, across three continents and in reference back to Germany itself.