Abstract
Due to the unique cultural attribution and facade aesthetics, China’s modern industrial architecture, built in the 1950s, played a significant role and expressed a specific historical value in the process of human industrial civilization. The objective of this study was to reveal the origin of China’s modern industrial architecture, meanwhile understanding the content, the channel, and the process of the global transfer of modern industrial architecture from the United States to the Soviet Union and then to China. With a literature review, we summarized the United States’ achievements of modern industrial architecture at the beginning of the 20th century and described the formation and evolution process of the Soviet Union’s modern industrial architecture from the 1920s to the 1950s. Through field investigation and measurement into China’s modern industrial plants, we comparatively analyzed the inheritance and changes among the United States, the Soviet Union, and China from the perspective of the planning concept, design theory, and structural technology. Finally, two sustainable development strategies of industrial tourism were proposed for China’s modern industrial heritage according to the comprehensive assessment, and two typical development patterns were presented based on their respective advantages.
Highlights
In the first half of the 20th century, the social circumstances were turbulent all over the world
Based on the previous literature review, we described the global transfer of modern industrial architecture from the United States to the Soviet Union and to China
In order to conserve the unique sample of the industrial civilization and re-stimulate the urban economy, developing sustainable modern industrial tourism attracts our research interest
Summary
In the first half of the 20th century, the social circumstances were turbulent all over the world. In the second half of the 19th century, the economic reconstruction after the American Civil War (1861–65) received more and more investment, which caused the revolution of new technology and new materials in the industry. More and more outstanding American industrial architects began to emerge on the stage of history and tried their best to respond to the mission call of the great era with their talent and diligence They created an advanced modern industrial architectural design theory and invented new structural technology. Albert Kahn was the brightest and most influential representative of these American architects He was called the father of modern industrial architecture due to his great contribution to the development of modern industrial architecture in the United States, European countries, and even the Soviet Union [5]
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