| China: Architectural Guide Contributor(s): Chakroff, Evan (Author), Godel, Addison (Author), Gargus, Jacqueline (Author) |
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ISBN: 3869223480 ISBN-13: 9783869223483 Publisher: Dom Publishers OUR PRICE: $59.35 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Buildings - General - Architecture | Regional - Travel | Asia - China |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.3" W x 9.6" (1.50 lbs) 380 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In an era of accelerating population growth, mass urbanisation, and increasing pressure on the natural environment, the megacities of China's eastern seaboard have become a focal point of architectural and urban-design attention. The "reform and opening-up era" has touched China's major cities in different ways, affecting the existing fabric of dynastic capitals, trade hubs, and former European colonies and concessions; this in turn has provided the setting for a range of complex reactions by contemporary architects. The Architectural Guide China provides city-by-city coverage including historic maps and background information on urban form. Building on the authors' years of experience leading architectural study tours, this book is the first comprehensive English-language survey of recent Chinese architecture presented in the form of a travel guide. |
Contributor Bio(s): Godel, Addison: - Addison GODEL is a Ph.D. student in architecture at Columbia University, where his research concerns the myriad, two-way relationships between modern architecture and its social and political contexts, with topics including the representational paradoxes of telephone exchanges, early-modern European views of Chinese design, and the status of post-Independence Indian work in Modernist historiography. He holds an M.Arch from the Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture, and publishes architectural commentary online.Chakroff, Evan: - Evan CHAKROFF is a designer and critic with an interest in the urban, architectural, and social implications of digital technology. While focused on computational design in practice, he remains active in academia and has published theoretical essays in Log, CLOG, Saturated Space, and other journals. Evan holds an M.Arch from the Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University, and works as a designer at LMN Architects, Seattle. Previously, he worked with Herzog & de Meuron, Massimiliano Fuksas, and NBBJ. Evan lived and worked in Shanghai from 2009 to 2013.Gargus, Jacqueline: - Jacqueline GARGUS, RA, is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University. A two-time Fullbright scholar, Professor Gargus' research approaches design through an art-historical lens. Professor Gargus has led the Knowlton School's study abroad programs to Europe and Asia for over twenty years, has taught at Harvard University and the Technische Universität Wien, published and lectured widely and has been an invited critic at MIT, UCLA, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, among other institutions. |