ARCHITECTURAL ADAPTATION TO THE MODERNISM OF A DEVELOPING COUNTRY

本研究论文的目的是调查建筑适应发展中地区参考菲律宾。本研究提供了气候、技术和文化三个主要视角来分析建筑适应性的实质。这三个观点对于理解中国建筑背景与西方建筑背景的不同是很重要的。本研究论文共分为6章，每章分别对菲律宾现代建筑的适应有具体的方面。第一章概述了近一个世纪以来受美国建筑风格影响的建筑风格的转变，分为四个具体时期。第二章解释了菲律宾从前现代到当代的历史上建筑对气候条件的适应。第三章介绍了建筑的技术改造，指的是最初从美国引进并在国内广泛传播的施工方法和材料。第四章是伴随着几个主要文化类别的文化适应，以观察建筑现象作为整个当代文化运动的一个方面。第五章讨论了主要建筑师的活动，解释了他们是如何理解问题并设计作品的。第六章为研究结论，并提出进一步的问题和建议。

The aim of this research paper is to investigate architectural adaptation to developing areas referring to that of the Philippines. The research work provides three major points of view to try to analyze the substance of the architectural adaptation: climate, technology and culture. These three view-points are important to understand the difference of the architectural backgrounds compared with the West.This research paper consists of 6 chapters and each chapter has specific aspect of the adaptation of the Phililippines modern architecture respectively. Chapter 1 overviews the transition of architectural styles inftuenced by the U.S.A. dominantly for about a century with four specific eras. Chapter 2 explains architectural adaptation to the climatic conditions of the Philippines historically since pre-modern era to contemporary stage. Chapter 3 describes technical adaptation of the architecture referring to construction method and material which were introduced from the U.S.A. originally and have diffused widely in the country. Chapter 4 refers cultural adaptation accompanied by several major cultural categories in order to observe the architectural phenomena as an aspect of whole contemporary cultural movement. Chapter 5 discusses on the activities of major leading architects explaining how they understood the problems and designed the works. Chapter 6 leads to the conclusions of the research bringing up further problems and proposals.