The Social Imperative: Architecture and the City in China - Softcover

Wee, H. Koon

 
9780989331791: The Social Imperative: Architecture and the City in China
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0989331792 ISBN 13: 9780989331791
Verlag: ACTAR, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

This book aims to put the social agenda squarely back in the rapid development of the built environment in China. Beneath the veneer of a very successful China, a quiet revolution is taking place within the realms of architecture and the city. This book contains multiple short critiques, reflections and manifestos, affording each contributing architect and intellectual the time and space to imagine new social paradigms in China. Emerging from a tumultuous history of high culture and complex territorial conditions, there is nothing straightforward about the social development of China. The complexity of the social practices developed by architects and shapers of the built environment can be explained in part by the last three decades of an intensified adoption of the market economy by the Communist Party of China, after an equally short three decades of closed-door communist control. There is no political meltdown like the democratization of the former Communist Bloc, but there is a constant managing of discontent and resistance across China.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

H. Koon Wee is the Program Director of the HKU Cities in Asia Program, and founding Principal Architect of SKEW Collaborative. He is a Board Member of the non-profit Asian Urban Lab and founding member of the Docomomo HK Chapter. His most recent book is entitled Singapore Dreaming: Managing Utopia, and his forthcoming monograph entitled The Other Factory: Late Industrial Forms and Organization in China covers the unique histories of industrialization of China in the 20th century, narrated through a number of award-winning projects undertaken by SKEW. As a Dutch registered architect, Koon was recognized in the recent Fifty-under-Fifty: Innovators of the 21st Century juried by Stanley Tigerman, Ralph Johnson, Jeanne Gang, Marion Weiss and Qingyun Ma. Koon has also gained a number of international awards and recognition from the Chicago Athenaeum, Leading European Architects Forum, Asia Pacific Design Center, World Architecture News, Blueprint, Perspective, AD100, Conde Nast and others. SKEW's work has been exhibited at the Torino Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Venice Biennale, Shenzhen-HK Biennale, Chengdu Biennale, Anyang Public Art Program, A+UD Hub-to-Hub Public Program, and SENI, the precursor to the Singapore Biennale.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
ACTAR
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0989331792
ISBN 13 
9780989331791
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
360
Kontakt zum Hersteller
preigu GmbH & Co. KG
mail@preigu.de

Lengericher Landstr. 19
Osnabrück
Niedersachsen
49078
Deutschland