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In Taiwan’s educational development process, the Catholic Church has extensively involved and influenced in school buildings at various levels. Among all, private Catholic high schools that were established after war has become a representative campus type. This research made post-war private Catholic high schools’ constructions as research objects due to the following reason: besides Blessed Imelda's School was the only Catholic secondary school built during the Japanese colonial period, most Catholic high schools in Taiwan were built after 1949 by those Catholic organizations who retreated from China with the R.O.C government. Those church members not only included Westerns, which we were familiar with, many people were religious from local China. Hence, due to the diversified nationalities of membership, campus constructions in Taiwan that were built after World War II (WWII)not only included the religious concept from Western but were also influenced by different culture backgrounds. In addition to the political turmoil and the development of modern architectural, buildings of Catholic high school combined modern architectural forms, Western beliefs, and many Chinese -style features with national consciousness. The integration of Chinese and Western factors gives Taiwan’s post-war campus architecture a contemporary value.
This research aims to observe the development of Catholic high school in Taiwan from two perspectives: (a) What kind of post-war modernized school buildings will appear in the private Catholic high schools that were established after WWII? Especially facing the situation of inheriting the architecture style from Japanese colonial period and being influence by the public high school that were set up by the National Government of R.O.C. (b) How does the private Catholic high schools’ space design different from other national high schools? In this research, we are going to discuss about the configuration of Catholic secondary high schools, including classrooms, auditoriums, churches, and other building types. By analyzing their spatial design and exterior constitute, we then organized the architectural features of Catholic high school in Taiwan.
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