#books #architecture | China dialogues

China dialogues / edited by Vladimir Belogolovsky ; foreword by Iwan Baan.
Novato, California : ORO Editions ; [Shanghai] : Tongji University Press, 2022.
249 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – China

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781951541620
Cita APA-7: Belogolovsky, Vladimir (ed.) (2022). China dialogues. ORO Editions.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.038(510) CHI
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1336956048

Since the mid-1990s, when China allowed its architects to practice independently from government-run design institutes, a new kind of architecture, distinguished by unique regional characteristics, has emerged. China Dialogues is a rigorously selected collection of insightful interviews that the book's author Vladimir Belogolovsky has conducted with 21 leading Chinese architects during his extensive travels in China. At the time when so many buildings that are being built around the world are no longer rooted in their place and culture, the leading Chinese architects succeeded collectively in producing unique architectural body of work that could not be confused with any other regional school. The interviews are accompanied by over 120 photographs and drawings of beautifully executed projects built throughout China since early 2000s. China Dialogues opens up the thinking process of the country's top architects, as they share their ideas, insights, intentions, and visions in unusually revealing and candid ways.

#books #architecture | China : the new creative power in architecture

China : the new creative power in architecture / Chris van Uffelen.
[Salenstein]: Braun Publishing AG, 2021.
351 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – China

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783037682678
Cita APA-7: Uffelen, Chris van. (2021). China : the new creative power in architecture. Braun Publishing AG.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.038(510) CHI
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1306278865

[.en] The building culture of China is currently one of the most innovative and most adventurous in the world because of the bold ways architects approach materials and genres as well as forms and functions. At the same time, it offers the opportunity to implement the most daring designs in the shortest possible time, as both the expertise and the necessary manpower are available. While technology and tradition play an important role, so do sustainability and ecological concepts aiming at achieving a harmonious interplay between the respective building and its surroundings. This volume features a wide range of typologies, styles, and locations that have one thing in common – their architects come from China and make the world stop and take notice of their work. The author presents the most important and interesting contemporary offices and designers and their most significant projects at home and abroad.