Homecoming: The Origin and Destination of Architectural Design

Abstract

Under the background of globalization and urbanization in the 21st century, where will architectural design go? The architect is confused by these problems. The concept of "homecoming"expounded in this paper is that the objectivity and necessity of the homecoming will exist in people's spiritual life are pointed out from the aspects of literary concept, philosophical dimension and architectural design, in order to alleviate modern people's state of wandering with no one to depend upon, and it is also a need for cultural root seeking. However, homecoming is not a real sense of returning to the hometown, but a returning in a spiritual sense. Homecoming is a kind of situation consciousness, which builds a bridge between the past and the present by reason and emotion to express the attitudes towards the tradition in order to confront the urbanization process completely separated from the tradition. In this paper, reflection was positively conducted on the issues such as architectural ethics, architectural space and architectural language in the process of intense urbanization, with a view to putting forward personal opinions and exploring the future direction of architectural design.