The Condition of Chinese Architecture

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China accounts for only 1 per cent of the world’s total

architects, but produces 10 per cent of the world’s buildings

and uses 33 per cent of the world’s reinforced concrete. How

does this condition have an effect on architecture?

Translated for the first time into English, The Condition of Chinese

Architecture is the results of a five-year immersive investigation by

TCA Think Tank into this paradigm. The research presented in this

publication provides an insider’s perspective to decode what is

occurring in the course of Asia’s most latest construction boom, the

extent of its global have an effect on and the circumstances in which its actors

must operate.

This book rejects the usual approaches to studying this condition,

in which sweeping conclusions are cast from big data and a

fetishisation of statistics including the growth, size and quantity of

projects; the speed of their production and demolition; and the

relationship between a project and its context (or, in many cases, its

non-context). Instead, Pier Alessio Rizzardi and Zhang Hankun trace

a line from the significance of building culture in Chinese history

and identity, dissecting how the longstanding influence of Western movements from Baroque to Soviet architecture, megastructural modernism and the up to date generation of avant-garde and post-critical ‘global’ movements meld together to form this current state.

In addition to interviewing key voices of up to date Chinese architecture―including such icons as Chang Yong Ho, Liu Jiakun, Ma Yansong, Liu Xiaodu, LU Wenyu, Zhang Ke, Li Xiaodong, Li Hu, Chen Yifeng, Zhu Pei, Zhang Lei, Qi Xin, Rocco Yim, Zhang Bin, Liu Yuyang and Xu Tiantian―the authors weave together all of the spectrum of individuals involved in this condition, from construction workers to developers, curators, critics and artists. The result is a groundbreaking, cumulative reckoning of the history and future of Chinese architecture that may be teased out through layers of personal accounts and crossdisciplinary research drawing on architectural history, design and aesthetics, technology, philosophy, politics and society.

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