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[1]Dissertation
"The identity image of industrial
culture and preservation of historic industrial building
heritages"
Since the beginning of last
century how to deal with historic industrial building heritages became
an important issue of architectural conservation. But the practise of
preservation in west Europe hadn’t experienced a rapid development
until 1970s. The industrial building heritages are not only to be
interpreted as “historical documentation”; they also represent the
aesthetics and culture of industry and technology. Without a new
understanding of the cultural originalities of the industrialised
world and without identification with one’s own industrial history
in a broad sense, the acceptance for industrial building heritages
would be unthinkable. All these acquirements show us the crucial
questions: Which identity image has the industrial culture? Are there
any large difference between cities and regions? How do the different
identity images impact the practise of preservation of historic
industrial building heritages?
The new assessment of
industrial culture and the necessity of basic industrial
archaeological research are important acquirements in the
post-industrial countries in Europe and America. Meanwhile, in some
large cities in China it also shows the tendency of paradigm shift. As
China’s economic centre, Shanghai has a similar history of
industrialization for over 140 years as those in west Europe. Since
the mid-90s the preservation of historic industrial building heritages
also becomes a more and more important issue. In the late 90s, there
are the first experimental projects of industrial building heritage
preservation in Shanghai. Since then there are more needs of
international exchange of expert opinion and also more needs of
comparison research on different cities and regions.
In
this work Berlin is chosen as a reference and comparison research
object. The development of Berlin represents an important type of
urban development in Europe. In addition, there are several
similarities about these two cities – Shanghai and Berlin - which
allow a comparative research: the similar initial situation of
economic state of underdevelopment before industrialization; the
almost coincident start of early industrialization in both cities at
the middle of the 19th Century; and the imitation attempts of foreign
industrialization models.
The industrial culture is a very
broad term. As important element of identity images of industrial
culture, architecture and buildings will be mainly discussed in this
research work. They present both the industrial history and the
preservation work of industrial building heritages. With this research
work it will be tried to give an outline of the difference of the
industrial culture and show the uniqueness of historic industrial
building heritages.
Curriculum Vitae
Since
2008
DFG Fellow, qualifying scholarship, at the Transatlantic
Graduate School for Metropolitan Studies Berlin/New York at TU
Berlin
Since 2006
Graduate student of “M.A.
Historical Urban Studies”, at CMS – Center for Metropolitan
Studies, TU Berlin
2000-2006
Study of Architecture
and Urban Planning at TU Darmstadt
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