The Condition of Chinese Architecture
The Condition of Chinese Architecture
Pier Alessio Rizzardi, Zhang Hankun
TCA Think Tank, September 2018
Paperback | 7 x 10 inches | 480 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1916453722
Publisher Description:
In China, 1% of the world?s architects have to design 50% of all the buildings and must do so for 15% of the profit. This extreme situation in which architects have to operate, design and build, creates the theoretical basis for The Condition of Chinese Architecture.
In addition to interviewing the critical voices of contemporary Chinese architecture, the authors report the nowadays reality of the country, the architectural evolution since the first contacts with the West in 1582 and the issues affecting its contemporary practice.
The result is a groundbreaking, cumulative reckoning teased out through layers of personal accounts and cross-disciplinary research, drawing on architecture, aesthetics, philosophy, politics, and society.dDAB Commentary:
Chinese architecture, a staple of news about the built environment for the last dozen or so years, tends to veer between two poles: the cookie-cutter high-rise housing developments that are enabling the mass migration from the countryside to cities, and architectural icons screaming for attention, many designed by foreign architects. Most books tend to focus on one or the other (e.g., Bianca Bosker's study of Chinese developments that copy European and other contexts, and Clare Jacobson's collection of a few of the country's many...
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