S4-E6 – Taipei’s Architectural Trilogy Part Two: Witnessing History and Changing with the Times

In the previous episode, we told you how these three rather
stunning neo-classical Chinese buildings came to exist. This
week, we’re looking at them through a “culture and society”
lens. The massive statue of Chiang Kai-shek remains on its
pedestal at the CKS Memorial Hall. A place built to venerate a
dictator, however, became the site of the Wild Lily protests
demanding a democratic Taiwan in 1990, the year after tanks
answered calls for freedom in a square in Beijing. We’ll look at
what the National Theater and Concert Hall (NTCH) offers
visitors, and finally, how do you bring a “traditional
Chinese” theater and concert hall (both inspired by buildings in
China’s medieval Forbidden City) into the 21st century?


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