台灣公共(國民)住宅空間治理(1910s ~2000s)

Abstract

The public housing policy in Taiwan can be traced back to the Japanese Colonial Period (1895-1945). Since then, the space form of housing has been changing significantly, through Japanese Colonial Period, the end of World War II, and United States Aid until the 1960s. Reviewing the history of Taiwan's design and construction of public (national) housing, it is always connected with dominant powers which were from external. The new cultural imagine of resident was created by mixing the translation by Japanese colonialists, the introduction by technical adviser of USAID and the United Nations, and the cognition and re-interpretation by migrated technical officers from China and local architectural professions. Therefore, the practical process of modern residence in Taiwan was full of diversity and divergence. This study proposes to use new historical science, textual analysis and discourse analysis as reference methods to review the historical experience of the development of public (national) housing in Taiwan from 1910 to 2000. In doing so, this study aspires to present how a country with different regime types capitalizes on the mechanism of the operation of power such as national housing policies, monitoring and control to make decisions for, separate, renovate, and govern space. By referring to technical officers, professionals, and outsourcing consultants’ modernist housing design discourses, this study delves into the process of how a modern living knowledge system in pursuit of progress and efficiency is constructed and gradually becoming a society's collective consciousness, practice, and imagination in everyday life.