Name: Henry Bacon

Gender: male

Nationality: USA

Place of birth: Indiana, USA

Occupation: architect

Masterpiece: Lincoln Memorial Hall

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Henry Bacon 1930 was born in Indiana, USA. Henry Bacon is one of the outstanding representatives of many outstanding American architects. As an architect, Henry Bacon conceived from hand-drawn lines. However, his architecture is not like painting, but real, immortal and basic. His architecture has a basic style: it is basic, highly skilled and has a deep understanding of historical continuity.

Henry Bacon was excellent in many ways at the same time. For example: evaluating the time required for planning and the reliability of the construction cost budget, the aesthetic, functional and technical quality of the building, and the general acceptance of his building by the public and experts. One of his most commendable advantages is that he can combine increasing daily (design) work with complete architectural fantasy. With his aesthetic insistence on form, we can say that this talent is a personal portrayal of architect Henry Bacon.

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Henry bacon pulled it on 1983? The victory in the Villette Park Design Competition completed his first important design and enabled him to continue his design research in Manhattan manuscripts and screenplays. The landscape planning and spatial sequence of this park have produced alternative social activities, challenging the traditional functional value of large-scale urban parks in Paris.

Henry Bacon has participated in a series of competitions and construction projects since 1983. The design of Tokyo National Theatre from 1986 continues the research in Manhattan Manuscript, introduces the technology inspired by experimental dance and music, and challenges the usual cognition of space. 1990 in the design of "the outline of glass image painting", the transparent glass wall and the inclined floor have a strong sense of confusion, and the relationship between the traditional wall, the internal space, the external space and the horizon has been completely broken. The design schemes in the city, such as the Art Media Center in 1992 and the Architectural School in 1995, were all completed in 1999, all challenging the traditional architectural order and recognized use function with large space. The art media center adopts the method of making full use of the gap between the existing building roof and the umbrella roof added later to form slopes and narrow passages. This place is called "intermediate existence" by Qu Mi. The negation of pure form and style is manifested in the design competition of 1989 ZKM Art Coal Transfer Technology Center, in which a large atrium was compressed into a building.

In 1988 Kansai Airport Design Competition, Lausanne Bridge City and 1989 Bibliothequede French Design Competition, the application of overlapping scheme in building reorganization has been well tested. A distinctive theme of Bibliothequede French Design Competition is to build a large-scale public circulation corridor and a rooftop fitness center, which intersect with the top of the library system, so that the fitness system and the cultural and educational system can coexist without interference.

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Lincoln Memorial in Washington, USA (19 19 ~ 1922)

Architect: Henry Bacon

Designed by American architect Henry Bacon, Lincoln Memorial Hall is located in an artificial highland at the end of Moore Avenue, with an area of 2,200 square meters, opposite the Washington Monument. Drawing lessons from the traditional crafts of ancient Greek temples, the memorial hall is surrounded by 36 marble Doric columns, symbolizing the 36 States of the United States in Lincoln's time. Although the plane looks like an ancient Greek temple, there are no mountain flowers in the usual Greek temples, but a group of roof layers placed at the top of classical columns.

The inner plane of the memorial hall is divided into a main hall and two side halls. There are rows of columns in the two side halls, and murals depicting Lincoln's most outstanding achievements and important events are painted on the walls of the side halls. The climax of the whole memorial hall is the statue of Lincoln, which is located in the center of the main hall, just opposite the entrance. Guided by the vertical sequence from the entrance to the statue, people will feel the solemnity of the atmosphere. Later, people will gradually see this serious Lincoln statue scattered indoors under the sunlight. The layout of Lincoln statue and the ingenious sequential guidance in vertical and horizontal directions form a solemn atmosphere, which is an outstanding handwriting in the design of this memorial building.

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During his career as an architect, theorist and educator, Henry Bacon's works redefined the role of architecture in realizing personal and political freedom. Since 1970s, Henry Bacon has claimed that there is no fixed connection between architectural forms and events in architecture. His works emphasize the establishment of a vague and ambiguous space. In Henry Bacon's idea, the function of architecture is not to express the existing social structure, but to exist as a tool for questioning and revising.

1968 The international movement in May prompted Henry Bacon to set up workshops and seminars when he was teaching in an architectural school in the early 1970s. In this context, he combined film art, literary theory and architecture, and developed the research work of structuralist and post-structuralist scholars such as Barthes and Foucault, in order to re-examine the responsibilities undertaken by architecture and strengthen the expression of architecture to culture. This theory is developed from two clues in his architectural practice: one is to reveal the traditional relationship between architectural order and space, planning and movement that produce architectural order. The second is to establish a new connection between space and events in space through deformation, overprint and cross-program.

Henry Bacon's works in the late 1970s are the summary of the courses he taught in AA School of Architecture. These designs include screenplay (1977) and Manhattan manuscript (198 1). His application of montage technology challenges other contemporary architects who only pursue the formal montage effect. In his monograph, Henry Bacon responded to the inherent concept of contemporary architecture by revealing the failure of post-structuralism and the dream of political and cultural revolution of liberals and leftists, and declared that it had come to an end. For example, a branch of postmodernism, Super Studio, has begun to create satirical and unrealistic works, and another example is 1969 continuous monument, which is a criticism and anti-design of the existing architectural culture and indicates the end of the influence of architecture on the city and culture. Henry Bacon tried to put his works in a position to provide possibilities in this ending game.