CHEN Wei. Towards the 21st Century Concepts of the Architectural Arts[J]. Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002, 24(2): 11-14. DOI: 10.11835/j.issn.1674-4764.2002.02.004.
The architectural creation has been suspected as ostentation in some degree since the setup of theory on modernistic architectural art creation. In the controversy of miscellaneous theories
we are in face of the new challenge in the 21st century. It is an important task in the new century that how to avoid impairment on the personal initiation in face of the impact of new technology or IT. Based on the philosophy of architectural art
the situation and the characteristics of architectural creation at present were analyzed in this paper. The freedom of individual creation without restriction by any code is advocated here
which will make the thoughts of architectural creation vivid in the 21st century.