JJP’s founder Joshua Jih Pan was engaged by the National Association for Architects, among other researchers and architects, to compile A Half Century of Architecture in the Changing Taiwan 1971~2021. 1971 marked the enactment of the Architects Act, and this publication surveyed eight topics over the past five decades. They are: urban planning and architecture regulations; construction materials and technologies/techniques; changing requirements of living; changing conditions of the society, economy and climate; influences of social movements; new types of public works; revitalization of historical sites. Through these issues, the anthology explores the crucial turning points in the recent history of architecture in Taiwan. The chapter Changing Conditions of the Society, Economy and Climate was compiled by JJP, and the content was based on discussions over a 6-month period between Joshua Jih Pan and young designers, including oral history collections and archive reviews on themes of cities, industries, public works, and social development, among other perspectives corresponding to the context of this profession.
“The shifts of policies and industrial patterns, and the impacts of globalization are marked in the growth of Taiwan’s cities in the past fifty years. “The shifts of policies and industrial patterns, and the impacts of globalization are marked in the growth of Taiwan’s cities in the past fifty years. Old town lifestyles disappeared in the more and more homogeneous urban spaces, profit-oriented developments decided the market of living, regional growth expanded southward thanks to the advancement of transportation and diversifying industries. Architects, with their integral training and capacity of coordination, are not absent from the making of contemporary life.” This chapter begins with the cities formulated during the Japanese colonial era, then delineates the conditions and directions of architecture practice and industrial transformation in the moving social and economic waves. The retrospect provides a foresight of the future, such as the impending challenges architects will have to face, and for readers to understand the multiple respects of this profession.
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