New China Architecture

by Xing Ruan
New China Architecture
Author: Xing Ruan
Publisher: Periplus Editions (HK) Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-03-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780794607579
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Featuring hundreds of photographs and extensive commentary, this modern architecture and design book showcases the dynamic structures of today's China. by China's booming cities are evolving at a dizzying speed, and her new wealth has created a dynamic environment for architecture and construction. New China Architecture documents the spectacular transformation modern China has undergone in recent decades as the heady push to prosperity has inspired architects from China and around the globe to produce striking new designs. Award-winning professor of architecture, Xing Ruan, covers the entire range of China's most captivating new building projects—from Shanghai skyscrapers to public buildings in Beijing and Guangzhou, and from cutting-edge private homes and gleaming new airports to theaters and universities throughout China. Over the past few decades, architects, urban planners, and design aficionados everywhere have watched China's spectacular urban transformation with awe, and New China Architecture offers them a closer look at the country's most innovative new buildings.

House of the Dragon

by Gestalten
House of the Dragon
Author: Gestalten
Publisher: Gestalten
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9783899558722
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A new design expression is being formed in China as architects look internally for visionary design instead of toward the West.

New Chinese Architecture

by Laurence King Publishing
New Chinese Architecture
Author: Laurence King Publishing
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-06-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781856696081
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Over the last five years, China has experienced an unprecedented boom in architecture and has become the most dynamic and active region in the world. The complex fusion of both Chinese and Western influences has given its architecture a unique style. This comprehensive, wide ranging book showcases the most exciting projects of recent years, with extensive imagery together with clear line drawings. It covers buildings all over China and of every type and scale: houses, schools, universities, offices, retail spaces, galleries, and museums. Across its 480 pages this book provides the most complete survey of contemporary Chinese architecture to date and will be indispensable for architects, students, and all those with an interest in architecture.

Designing Reform

by Cole Roskam
Designing Reform
Author: Cole Roskam
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 030023595X
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Investigating the rich architecture of post-Mao China and its broad cultural impact In the years following China's Cultural Revolution, architecture played an active role in the country's reintegration into the global economy and capitalist world. Looking at the ways in which political and social reform transformed Chinese architecture and how, in turn, architecture gave structure to the reforms, Cole Roskam underlines architecture's unique ability to shape space as well as behavior. Roskam traces how foreign influences like postmodernism began to permeate Chinese architectural discourse in the 1970s and 1980s and how figures such as Kevin Lynch, I. M. Pei, and John Portman became key forces in the introduction of Western educational ideologies and new modes of production. Offering important insights into architecture's relationship to the politics, economics, and diplomacy of post-Mao China, this unprecedented interdisciplinary study examines architecture's multivalent status as an art, science, and physical manifestation of cultural identity.

Chinese Architecture

by Yanxin Cai
Chinese Architecture
Author: Yanxin Cai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2011-03-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0521186447
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This book provides an illustrated introduction to Chinese architecture, a reference for modern design and a window into China's history.

Architecture of Modern China

by Jianfei Zhu
Architecture of Modern China
Author: Jianfei Zhu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1134720394
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A collection of essays on architecture of modern China, arranged chronologically covering a period from 1729 to 2008, focusing mainly on the twentieth century. The distinctive feature of this book is a blending of ‘critical’ and ‘historical’ research, taking a long-range perspective transcending the current scene and the Maoist period. This is a short, elegant book that condenses the wide subject matter into key topics.

China: the New Creative Power in Architecture

by Chris Van Uffelen
China: the New Creative Power in Architecture
Author: Chris Van Uffelen
Publisher: Braun Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9783037682678
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About the most important and interesting contemporary architects from China and their projects at home and abroad.

Contemporary Architecture in China

by Xiangning Li
Contemporary Architecture in China
Author: Xiangning Li
Publisher: Images Shenyang
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781864707793
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- Critical analysis of 60 projects from 60 architects in China - Highly illustrated throughout with rich technical details Architectural exhibition is an important aspect in the study and transmission of architectural culture. The academic thoughts and design styles that influence the trends of global architecture are all established through one or a series of important architectural exhibitions. This book is produced based on the GSD (Harvard Graduate School of Design) autumn exhibition: 'Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Chinese Architecture'. It reveals a unique perspective of contemporary Chinese architecture by showcasing 60 works from 60 contemporary architects within five thematic categories: cultural, residential, regeneration, rural, and digital. The selected architects attempt to maintain, from the earliest moments of the design process to its finished outcome, a certain level of critical thinking and quality. It is a record of the continuous evolution and growth of contemporary Chinese architecture and hopes to open up a new avenue from which to encourage further conversation regarding both the present and future state of China's architecture culture.