【作者】 彭长歆；

【Author】 Peng Changxin;

【机构】 华南理工大学建筑学院；

【摘要】 纽约华裔军人忠烈坊是为纪念第二次世界大战期间在太平洋战场阵亡的美国华裔飞行员刘锦而设立的一处纪念物。华裔美国建筑师李锦沛采用中国式牌坊作为纪念物造型的基础,并通过建筑、图像、双语文字、数字及城市家具的集合,将历史与现在、屈辱与荣耀、华族身份与国家认同等集结一体,完成了一处专属美国华人的纪念物的构建。它的创建从表面上看是建筑师技术操作的结果,在本质上却反映了诸多方面对纪念物的涉入和延伸。更多还原

【Abstract】 Chinese American Veterans Memorial Arch is a monument dedicated to Chinese American pilot Kim Lau who sacrificed his life in Asia-Pacific front line during WWII.The designer,Chinese American architect Poy G.Lee has applied the idea of Chinese memorial archway into the design of the Memorial Arch and injected elements of architecture,totem,bilingual inscription,number characters and urban fitment into the monument,making the Memorial Arch a site exclusively for Chinese Americans to reflect their past and present,suffering and glory and Chinese identity and national consciousness.Both the architect and society contributed to its creation.更多还原