Wang Shu’s Amateur Architecture, as culturally-sensitive and contextually responsive as it is aesthetically stunning, using a keen understanding of the capabilities of local craftsmen to mobilize traditional materials and formal strategies as a kind of cultural currency.
One of the great, if seldom realized, promises of architecture is its capacity to affect change, to provide a glimpse into a parallel world where design can change society for the better…
Guangzhou is a collection of diverse urban ideas, a kind of living museum of urbanism, representing the variety of urban form present in China’s post-colonial cities.
[In December, I helped lead a tour of Architecture students through eastern China. The following few posts will be my brief impressions of the cities we visited. Today: Kaiping.]
OCT Loft [In December, I helped lead a tour of Architecture students through eastern China. The following few posts will be my brief impressions of the cities we visited. Today: Shenzhen.] Shenzhen’s short history is well known: In the accepted mythology, China’s Economic Miracle began here, with the establishment of the Special Economic Zone, that [...]
City of Dreams [Note: Over the past two weeks, I helped lead a tour of Ohio State University architecture students and alumni on a tour up the East China coast, from Hong Kong, to Shanghai, and inland to Beijing. The following few posts will be my brief impressions of the cities we visited…. Today: Macau.]
[Note: Over the past two weeks, I helped lead a tour of Ohio State University architecture students and alumni on a tour up the East China coast, from Hong Kong, to Shanghai, and inland to Beijing. The following few posts will be my brief impressions of the cities we visited…. First up: Hong Kong .] [...]
