Research on Modern Architecture Culture of Harbin based on Memes

Abstract Cultural meme, which have the same heritability and variability as particulate biological genes, provides culture units that can be shared and transmitted across different periods, allowing cultural computing to be made in a fine-grained manner. This paper extracts regional architectural cultural memes from the basic information of Harbin city's modern architectural heritage, and constructs the urban historical architectural cultural memes matrix. By using the social network calculation method, we analyse the representative architectural meme such as material meme, structural system meme, architectural style meme, etc., which represent the evolution of urban architectural culture, construct a network of urban architectural cultural memes, and explore its clustering characteristics and centrality characteristics. The research shows that Harbin urban architectural culture in the development and evolution of the process has a holistic cultural characterisation beyond architectural meme monolith and architectural memeplex, and has formed a highly coupled and complex cultural system. The clustering coefficients of the architectural meme networks in the cultural pattern of urban architecture in different periods are all between 0.575 and 0.676 (more than 0.5), suggesting that the cultural similarities within the clusters of architectural heritages in the city have the characteristics of continuous heredity. The methodology and conclusions of this study can provide a methodological reference for the design of contemporary urban architecture cultural patterns, and provide data support for the development and improvement of urban historic district conservation planning.