A study of the evolution of the performance spaces in cultural construction of Post-War Taiwan ─ City and county cultural centers as examples

• Main Authors: Su-Wei Ma, 馬庶瑋
• Other Authors: Chao-Ching Fu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87344359958621520533

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 建築學系碩博士班 === 96 === Since Taiwan promoted the "12 Major Infrastructure Projects" on 1977 ,it embraced cultural construction as the last one item, and the city and county cultural centers with in-built Library, Museum, and Concert Hall was the focus of it. The project started the era of Taiwan’s long-term cultural policy and development. City and county cultural centers, since 1977, was administrated by the Ministry of Education. The program of cities and counties Cultural Center was managed by a top-down approach and concluded in the establishment of 19 City and County Cultural Centers by 1980s.However, in the late 1970s, some counties and cities were at a crucial moment of dividing governing area. Those city and county Cultural Centers couldn’t be designed neither built in the late 1970s. Some others can’t build the Concert Hall due to the reason of budget shortage. The cases mentioned above were carried out and completed until 1987, the lifting of Martial Law. After the lifting of martial law in Taiwan, the administration of Taiwan’s culture construction was transferred from the Ministry of Education to the Council for Cultural Affairs. Council for Cultural Affairs take the policy of “Local culture under self-governing”, which made cultural centers started to show the character of each city and counties. This paper will discuss the building of cultural centers’ performance space. The emphasis is laid on evolution of performance spaces in the cultural center which were built around 1987, after the lifting of Martial Law. These performance spaces built before the lifting of martial Law are mostly auditorium. The reason why they are sharing the same characteristic is because they are under the up-to-down administration. That made the city and county cultural centers similar in space and outer. However, there are variety due to regional influence. After the lifting of martial law, city and county Cultural Center auditorium’s interior showed different forms of space comparing to the past. They form different strength of performing character by using outdoor and semi-outdoor spaces, and make the space reaching from indoor to outdoor. From the studying of the development of cultural center’s performance space, not only can that reflect he difference viewpoint of cultural policy and construction, but also covered the sequence of performance itself from government’s public-educating tool to cultural industry.