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" Building projects in China " gives a comprehensive overview of the planning activities of foreign architects in China. This practical handbook outlines legal framework conditions, introduces the Chinese building market, and gives practical descriptions of the execution of projects on site. To complete the picture, international planning firms share their experience on(...)
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July 2006, Basel
Building projects in China : a manual for architects and engineers
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" Building projects in China " gives a comprehensive overview of the planning activities of foreign architects in China. This practical handbook outlines legal framework conditions, introduces the Chinese building market, and gives practical descriptions of the execution of projects on site. To complete the picture, international planning firms share their experience on projects of the most various sizes and types in China.
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Shanghai kaleidoscope
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This oversize study of Shanghai's creative culture presents an adventurous mix of architectural models, digital simulations, designer fashion apparel, drawings, runway videos, paintings, photo-works and video installations by the city's leading contemporary artists. Christopher Phillips, curator at the International Center of Photography in New York and editor of this(...)
February 2009, Toronto
Shanghai kaleidoscope
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This oversize study of Shanghai's creative culture presents an adventurous mix of architectural models, digital simulations, designer fashion apparel, drawings, runway videos, paintings, photo-works and video installations by the city's leading contemporary artists. Christopher Phillips, curator at the International Center of Photography in New York and editor of this volume, writes in his introduction, Since the early 1990s, Shanghai has been at the forefront of China's historic national resurgence. During that time, it has become one of the world's most frenetic and fascinating cities. With a population now approaching 20 million, it is an urban colossus--China's largest and most densely populated city.
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Until around 1990, Shanghai was China’s premier but sluggish industrial center. Now at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the joint impact of global forces and state power has turned Shanghai into a dynamic megacity. Shanghai’s remarkable growth in economy, infrastructure, and global presence has prompted questions about the Shanghai “miracle.” This collection(...)
Shanghai rising : state power and local transformations in a global megacity
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Until around 1990, Shanghai was China’s premier but sluggish industrial center. Now at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the joint impact of global forces and state power has turned Shanghai into a dynamic megacity. Shanghai’s remarkable growth in economy, infrastructure, and global presence has prompted questions about the Shanghai “miracle.” This collection places the city’s unprecedented rise in a rare comparative examination of U.S. cities, as well as with Asian megacities Singapore and Hong Kong, providing a nuanced account of how Shanghai’s politics, economy, society, and space have been transformed by macro- and micro-level forces.
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China is booming. Also culture is in movement in China. It is being transformed and in continuous exchange with the global art world - Chinese artists are acknowledged abroad and international architects are building in China. Galleries, art fairs and biennials are being founded in Beijing and Shanghai. The artist Ai Weiwei and the architect Yung Ho Chang embody a new(...)
Art and cultural policy in China: a conversation between Ai Weiwei, Uli Sigg and Yung Ho Chang moderated by Peter Pakesch
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China is booming. Also culture is in movement in China. It is being transformed and in continuous exchange with the global art world - Chinese artists are acknowledged abroad and international architects are building in China. Galleries, art fairs and biennials are being founded in Beijing and Shanghai. The artist Ai Weiwei and the architect Yung Ho Chang embody a new generation of creative minds in China whose work is rooted abroad and in China. Both pursue their professions internationally and are also perceived at that level.
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Tokyo midtown
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Tokyo Midtown, this new and recently opened district in Tokyo, has been celebrated as a successful example of both fine architecture and cooperation between developers and different layers of government. This focused publication provides a comprehensive survey of the project and features a detailed collection of photographs that allow the reader to ‘walk through' the(...)
Tokyo midtown
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Tokyo Midtown, this new and recently opened district in Tokyo, has been celebrated as a successful example of both fine architecture and cooperation between developers and different layers of government. This focused publication provides a comprehensive survey of the project and features a detailed collection of photographs that allow the reader to ‘walk through' the area. Further, information is provided on the particular architects and their buildings along with detailed images, plans, elevations and technical details for each particular building.
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High-population centers of enormous size are springing up in China with dizzying speed. With them comes an increased demand for migrant workers in the construction sector, factories, and mines. In growth centers like the Pearl River Delta in Southern China, 40 million people have already set out from the underdeveloped provinces to earn their living there. The(...)
From somewhere to nowhere: China's internal migrants
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High-population centers of enormous size are springing up in China with dizzying speed. With them comes an increased demand for migrant workers in the construction sector, factories, and mines. In growth centers like the Pearl River Delta in Southern China, 40 million people have already set out from the underdeveloped provinces to earn their living there. The photographer Andreas Seibert accompanied the workers repeatedly in order to document their everyday lives and their journey to the high-population centers. Their stories are told in a collection of striking photographs that provide a close-up portrait to complement the current discussion of economic growth in China. Accompanying the photographs are texts by two Chinese authors, who researched the social and economic background of the phenomenon and provide a direct look. With its combination of text and images, this volume conveys a unique impression of the scale of this modern migration of peoples.
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In the middle of the renowned financial and shopping district of Hong Kong lies Exchange Square. The name underlines not only the exchange of monetary value but also the people’s mobility: each Sunday, tens of thousands of female domestic workers from South and Southeast Asia reclaim the public space, here and in the surrounding streets and squares. The artist Moira Zoitl(...)
Exchange square, activism and everyday life of foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong
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In the middle of the renowned financial and shopping district of Hong Kong lies Exchange Square. The name underlines not only the exchange of monetary value but also the people’s mobility: each Sunday, tens of thousands of female domestic workers from South and Southeast Asia reclaim the public space, here and in the surrounding streets and squares. The artist Moira Zoitl has concerned herself with these women’s living and working conditions and with their everyday life and activism. EXCHANGE SQUARE presents artistic and collaborative projects, complemented by analytical texts and interviews about the forms of and the reasons for globalized job migration.
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Over the past two decades China has grown to become the largest construction market in the world, attracting many architects and urban planners from the West. As a result of this migration, it often happens that cultural and linguistic barriers between onsite experts from Western backgrounds and those from local environs create misunderstandings and stall the pace of(...)
China, China ... western architects and city planners in China
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Over the past two decades China has grown to become the largest construction market in the world, attracting many architects and urban planners from the West. As a result of this migration, it often happens that cultural and linguistic barriers between onsite experts from Western backgrounds and those from local environs create misunderstandings and stall the pace of execution. The Chinese architect Xin Lu has dealt with such issues firsthand and is especially well positioned to address them: he studied in China and Germany, and is currently working on a Chinese construction project for a German architectural office. Xin Lu has created this handbook from interviews and conversations he has conducted with architects, urban planners and academics from Europe and China, as well as with Chinese clients. Written to address issues of cultural disparity in the most practical terms, this volume elucidates differences between East and West in communications protocol and conceptual and working methods employed in the process of creating designs or in business. This volume is full of valuable advice, and will assist the process of intercultural cooperation.
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In the late 1980s, Japan was awash in seemingly unlimited wealth and rising toward what would be the peak of its modern economic success, power, and influence. In 1991 the same lethal combination of risky loans, inflated stocks, and real estate speculation that created this "bubble economy" caused it to burst, plunging the country into its worst recession since World War(...)
After the crash: architecture in post-bubble Japan
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In the late 1980s, Japan was awash in seemingly unlimited wealth and rising toward what would be the peak of its modern economic success, power, and influence. In 1991 the same lethal combination of risky loans, inflated stocks, and real estate speculation that created this "bubble economy" caused it to burst, plunging the country into its worst recession since World War II. New Zealand–born architect Thomas Daniell arrived in Japan at the dawn of this turbulent decade. After the Crash is an anthology of essays that draw on first-hand observations of the built environment and architectural culture that emerged from the economically sober post-bubble period of the 1990s. Daniell uses projects and installations by architects such as Atelier Bow Wow, Toyo Ito, and the metabolists to illustrate the new relationships forged, most of necessity, between architecture and society in Japan. Tom Daniell is a practicing architect, critic, and educator who has based himself in Kyoto, Japan since the early 1990s.
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Now, this beautiful and fascinating volume takes the traditional tea house and turns it on its head. An informative introduction explains the history of the tea ceremony and the tea house. Then, in chapters written by three of the worlds most renowned architects -Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando,Terunobu Fujimori as well as a fourth with text by Hiroshi Hara and Kengo Kuma, the(...)
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September 2007, Tokyo
The contemporary tea house: Japan's top architects redefine a tradition
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Now, this beautiful and fascinating volume takes the traditional tea house and turns it on its head. An informative introduction explains the history of the tea ceremony and the tea house. Then, in chapters written by three of the worlds most renowned architects -Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando,Terunobu Fujimori as well as a fourth with text by Hiroshi Hara and Kengo Kuma, the book looks at twenty modern tea houses in Japan. Here are five men who share a fascination with exploring architectural space limited to the smallest possible spatial unit and the tea house is the perfect medium for satisfying this passion and curiosity. Most of these structures are used solely for the tea ceremony, but a few have become spaces for meditation, or for simply spending quiet time alone, with a drink or a good book. Through insightful text, superb photographs and detailed drawings, The Contemporary Tea House introduces each architects philosophy and creative concerns, as well as the artistic techniques behind their constructions in materials ranging from wood and titanium to concrete, stone, and paper. The book also offers the specifications of each building, a glossary and profiles of the architects.
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