By Edward Denison, Guang Yu Ren
"Luke Him Sau/Lu Qianshou (1904-1991) is healthier recognized across the world and in China because the architect of the enduring financial institution of China Headquarters in Shanghai. one of many first chinese language scholars to gain knowledge of on the Architectural organization in London within the overdue Twenties, Luke's lengthy, prolific and hugely winning profession in China and Hong Kong bargains precise insights into a rare interval of chinese language political turbulence �Read more...
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He, like so many educators of his generation, was acutely aware of the apparent conflict between tradition and modernity in architecture; and, while he stood by Beaux-Arts methods, he distanced himself from the radicalism of either camp. He accepted the transitional period that Western architecture and architectural education was in, and advocated a ‘new classicism’, wherein beauty could be achieved ‘through good proportions rather than through picturesque’13 – a position that would mirror Luke’s educational experiences in London and his professional outlook, as well as that of many of his generation who would return to China to design the country’s first ‘modern Chinese’ buildings.
While it abhorred imperialism and rejected outright Occidentalism, there was a growing conviction that salvation would come from Western pedagogy. Luke’s generation, unlike that before him, was raised on these revolutionary ideals and was thus liberated from the ancient strictures that were accused of shackling China and denying its passage to modernity. It was among this generation that, from the early 1920s, the second wave of Chinese architects began leaving for formal education overseas, mostly in the West.
33 LUKE’S CHILDHOOD Luke’s birthplace of Hong Kong was largely sheltered from the tempest across the border. A British colony since the 1840s, the craggy island off the coast of Canton was symptomatic of China’s unique condition – no other country on earth was as diversely carved up and exploited by outsiders. By the start of the 20th century there were approximately five different types of foreign settlements in China. The sheer variety of these settlements before the Second World War accounted for an extreme architectural and urban heterogeneity that continues to have a potent legacy in many Chinese cities.