China Homegrown (eBook, PDF)

Chinese Experimental Architecture Reborn

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Produktbeschreibung

Today, architecture in China is at a watershed. Over the last decade, rapid urbanisation and the burgeoning economy turned the country into a playground for the world's signature architects, making it possible to realise extravagant forms and structures at a vast scale. The Chinese government has now drawn a line under this phenomenon by issuing a directive calling an end to the 'oversized, xenocentric, weird' buildings devoid of character or cultural heritage that have sprung up across the country, requiring that urban architecture be 'suitable, economic, green and pleasing to the eye'.

This government directive comes at a time when homegrown architecture has become increasingly self-assured and reflective in its approach. A new generation of architects in China in their 30s and 40s are emerging, and in a wholly contemporary way they are exploring local responses to often bewildering urban and rural conditions and serious social and environmental challenges. This is often expressed through a revival of interest in traditional street patterns, courtyards and gardens. At the same time, architects are also recognising the opportunities to harness the potential of China's established manufacturing base to develop prefabricated building systems. Innovative practices are employing new modes of working, such as research-based studio teaching and exhibitions, field workshops, cross-disciplinary collaboration, laboratory-based practice, design think-tanks and collective projects, generating a vibrant culture of design research.

Contributors: Lu Feng, Murray Fraser, Xiao Fu and Wei You, Xiahong Hua and Shen Zhuang, Xinggang Li, Yichun Liu, James Shen, Yehao Song, Hui Wang, Shuo Wang, Xin Wang and Qiuye Jin, Philip F Yuan and Xiang Wang, Li Zhang, Xin Zhang and Jingxiang Zhu.

Featured architects: Archi-Union Architects, Atelier Archmixing, Atelier Deshaus, Atelier Li Xinggang, Integrated Architecture Studio, LanD Studio, META-Project, People's Architecture Office, SUP Atelier, URBANUS and Zaoyuan Gardening Studio

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119375975
• Artikelnr.: 55265436

Autorenporträt

Andong Lu is Professor of Urbanism and Architectural Theory at Nanjing University and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He has also been a Guest Professor at Dessau Institute of Architecture (2011-12). He has written widely on the subjects of Chinese urbanism, gardens and cinema. Pingping Dou is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Nanjing University and Principal Architect of LanD Studio. She holds a PhD in Architecture and Urban Studies from Queens' College, Cambridge University and has practiced at RMJM in London.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Guest-Editors 5
Introduction: Responsive Experimentalism 6
Integrating Geometry Within a Poetic Setting: Steering a Path Between the
Artifi cial and the Natural 16
Arcadia: A Contemporary Chinese Garden Experiment 24
Lost and Found: Reinventing Multi-Screen Adaptable Architecture 32
Constructing Critically: Prefabricated Systems with Soul 40
Plugin Society: Bridging the Gap Between Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches
to Urban Development 46
Everyday Change and the Unrecognisable System 52
Informal Density: Animating Historical Neighbourhoods 58
A New Protocol for Space Production: Generating Socially Cohesive Urban
Architecture 66
Three Main Drivers of Sustainable Design: A New Architectural Vernacular
for China 74
Basic Green Building Design: Reconnecting Sustainability to the Vernacular
80
Responsive Structure: Architecture as a Thing-scape 88
From Theory to Praxis: Digital Tools and the New Architectural Authorship
94
Lighting-Led Architecture: A Collaborative Approach 102
Architecture as Synthetic Agency: Narrative-Augmented Design in Practice
110
Imagining the Immediate Present: Responsive Approaches to the Investigation
of Things 116
Turning East: Design Research in China in a Global Context 124
Counterpoint: Alternative Modernity, Rural Rediscovery and What Next: The
Ongoing Debate on the Modern in China 134
Contributors 142