The Cultural and Technological Elements That Promote the Advance of History: Research on the Evolution of Architectural Structure

Abstract

Based on the research on the evolution of architectural structure, this paper reflects on the elements that push history forward. We analyze the influence of the cultural and technological elements on the architectural structure, and conduct further analysis by combining such two elements. For the analysis by means of such combination, we firstly take the assembly space as an example to provide a framework which combines the historical time and the physical space. At the intersection of the two directions, we list some classical buildings and then describe the cultural and technological elements that influenced them one by one. Similarly, we illustrate the characteristics of some Chinese bridges and some landmark buildings at different stages, as well as the cultural and technological elements which influenced them. Besides, we clarify the development relationship between the two elements on the basis of a large number of cases. Through introduction of some academic viewpoints, this paper analyzes relevant data, researches the cultural and technological elements that influenced the architectural structure development, and has eventually clarified the relationship between these two elements. It is not difficult to find out that the cultural and technological elements were interdependent in the history of architectural structure development, but resulted in separation of them. The cultural element is primarily embodied in the design partition by architects of the external and internal spaces of a building to satisfy the requirements for functionality and aesthetics, while for the technological element, the structure engineers are in place to ensure the quality of buildings. We can see that in the near future the breakthroughs in science and technology will eclipse the technological element, while the cultural one will become the only significant factor that influences the architectural development.