Brutalist Architecture in Taiwan, 1960–1970

Shin Hung Pan; Chih Ming Shih

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Brutalist Architecture in Taiwan, 1960–1970

Shin Hung Pan¹* and Chih Ming Shih²

¹Department of Architecture, Ph.D. Student, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

²Department of Architecture, Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

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Received Date: March 21, 2020; Published Date: April 03, 2020

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the origins and development of the brutalist architecture in Taiwan during the 1960s. It provides a detailed survey of an important yet little known chapter in the development of post-war modernist architecture in Taiwan.

Based on the architectonic analysis, the buildings built in the brutalist style in Taiwan during the 1960s can be divided into two categories: concrete expressionism and concrete structuralism. In addition, it was found that there were two main sources for the introduction of brutalist architecture into Taiwan: the public works projects of the Japanese colonial government; American economic assistance and Western missionary activity during the post-war period.

Keywords: Brutalist architecture; Concrete expressionism; Concrete structuralism

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