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An investigation into Shanghai’s rise from peripheral port to urban center. Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan(...)
Shanghai and the edges of empires
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An investigation into Shanghai’s rise from peripheral port to urban center. Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and Shanghai’s early twentieth-century rise, the overlapping cultural edges of a failing Chinese royal order and the encroachment of Western imperialists converged. Simultaneously appropriating and resisting imposing forces, Shanghai opened itself to unruly, subversive practices, becoming a crucible of creativity and modernism. Calling into question conventional ways of conceptualizing modernity, colonialism, and intercultural relations, Meng Yue examines such cultural practices as the work of the commercial press, street theater, and literary arts, and shows that what appear to be minor cultural changes often signal the presence of larger political and economic developments. Engaging theories of modernity and postcolonial and global cultural studies, Meng Yue reveals the paradoxical interdependence between imperial and imperialist histories and the retranslation of culture that characterized the most notable result of China’s urban relocation—the emergence of the international city of Shanghai.
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This May 2005 Special Issue of a+u features 70 sites in Beijing & 89 in Shanghai, each accompanied by a descriptive paragraph and site photographs. In some cases, plans or elevations are included. The buildings listed in the guide include modern and contemporary architecture dating from approximately 1900 to the present.
Beijing/Shanghai architecture guide, a+ u May 2005 special issue
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This May 2005 Special Issue of a+u features 70 sites in Beijing & 89 in Shanghai, each accompanied by a descriptive paragraph and site photographs. In some cases, plans or elevations are included. The buildings listed in the guide include modern and contemporary architecture dating from approximately 1900 to the present.
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The architecture biennal Beijing 2004 -ABB2004- is an historic event in the history of Chinese architecture. It is the first ever architecture biennal to be held in China, and it occurs at a very special moment in history. For not only is China opening up to the influence of world architecture as never before, but the city of Beijing is preparing itself to become a(...)
mars 2005, New York
Fast forward, hot spots, brain cells : architecture biennal Beijing, 2004
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The architecture biennal Beijing 2004 -ABB2004- is an historic event in the history of Chinese architecture. It is the first ever architecture biennal to be held in China, and it occurs at a very special moment in history. For not only is China opening up to the influence of world architecture as never before, but the city of Beijing is preparing itself to become a world stage for the 2008 Olympics, an event which will endow the city with a rich array of new buildings, designed by some of the leading architects in the world.
HK Lab 2
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HK Lab 2 picks up where HK Lab left off, and extends it. It brings together artists projects and a number of theoretical and critical viewpoints on Hong Kong interior spaces. The changing nature of urban experience and inhabitation calls for new critical paradigms and interdisciplinary approaches. It is perhaps time to move on and explore the concept of the city and(...)
avril 2005, Hong Kong
HK Lab 2
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HK Lab 2 picks up where HK Lab left off, and extends it. It brings together artists projects and a number of theoretical and critical viewpoints on Hong Kong interior spaces. The changing nature of urban experience and inhabitation calls for new critical paradigms and interdisciplinary approaches. It is perhaps time to move on and explore the concept of the city and its urban practices, not from visual, panoptic constructions, but from opaque, poetic, lived and embodied experiences of the city.
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This inaugural volume in the series 'Spatial habitus : making and meaning in Asia's vernacualr architecture' contains more than 500 illustrations, most in color, and includes a number of rare drawings that demonstrate the richness of domestic architecture and living patterns in traditional and contemporary China. Through its exploration of how Chinese families are(...)
janvier 1900, Honolulu, New York
House, home, family : living and being Chinese
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This inaugural volume in the series 'Spatial habitus : making and meaning in Asia's vernacualr architecture' contains more than 500 illustrations, most in color, and includes a number of rare drawings that demonstrate the richness of domestic architecture and living patterns in traditional and contemporary China. Through its exploration of how Chinese families are organized and why Chinese construct thier living spaces the way they do, this book yields a deep and wide understanding of what it means to live and be Chinese.
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Five-foot ways, or 'kaki-lima,' are a prominent feature of historical urban centers in tropical Southeast Asian cities. In the hot and humid urban center, these colonnades along the rows of commercial shophouses provide comfortable pedestrian walkways. It is frequently considered not only as a pathway but also as a space for transit activities in Malaysian urban settings.(...)
août 2023
Kaki Lima Stories: Life in the five-foot ways of Downtown Kuala Lumpur
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Five-foot ways, or 'kaki-lima,' are a prominent feature of historical urban centers in tropical Southeast Asian cities. In the hot and humid urban center, these colonnades along the rows of commercial shophouses provide comfortable pedestrian walkways. It is frequently considered not only as a pathway but also as a space for transit activities in Malaysian urban settings. The book delves into the richness, diversity, and beauty of life along Kuala Lumpur's five-footway.
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''Small Practices : In Conversation with Malaysian and Japanese Architects'' provides an intimate look into how small practices find their niche and pursue their passion in a field that is often perceived as aggressive and vigorous. Noorul Fadzlee Khamis, a Malaysian architect, and educator, with the support of Japan Foundation Asia Centre speaks to small practices based(...)
Small Practices: In conversation with Malaysian & Japanese Architects
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''Small Practices : In Conversation with Malaysian and Japanese Architects'' provides an intimate look into how small practices find their niche and pursue their passion in a field that is often perceived as aggressive and vigorous. Noorul Fadzlee Khamis, a Malaysian architect, and educator, with the support of Japan Foundation Asia Centre speaks to small practices based in both Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, documenting their workplaces and thoughts on inspiration, quirks, irks, the future of small practices, and its relation to architecture education. Featuring interviews with, Atelier Kazuki Wakahara, Atelier Ryo Abe, Design Team Architects, Satoshi Okada Architects, CODA, Normal Architecture, No-to-Scale*, Studio Karya, and WHBC Architects.
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This book features innovative and productive responses, in the form of architectural design and thinking, to the shift in Japan’s social condition under demographic changes that are evident in regional cities. These responses also demonstrate the new wave of architectural practice in Japan, focused on the challenges of degrowth. The shrinking and aging of the population(...)
octobre 2024
Revitalizing Japan: Architecture, Urbanization, and Degrowth
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This book features innovative and productive responses, in the form of architectural design and thinking, to the shift in Japan’s social condition under demographic changes that are evident in regional cities. These responses also demonstrate the new wave of architectural practice in Japan, focused on the challenges of degrowth. The shrinking and aging of the population is exacerbating the social decline in the regional cities of Japan. While excluded from the market-driven metropolitan areas, architects of the young generation are beginning to build ways of revitalizing regional cities through innovative design or new ways of practicing. This book features works by seven named or unnamed younger architects in Japan that preempt architectural responses to the post-growth condition, a gripping essay by community designer Ryo Yamazaki, and a captivating photo documentation by Kenta Hasegawa. Keynote essay by Toyo Ito.
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"The Hypospace of Japanese architecture" pushes past clichés of an exotic Japan to confront the modernity of an island nation whose habit of importing foreign ideas is less about assimilation than transformation, less a process of indigenization than one of cultural invention. The realization that buildings are dynamic events—phenomena of space-in-time, not inert objects(...)
The hypospace of Japanese architecture
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"The Hypospace of Japanese architecture" pushes past clichés of an exotic Japan to confront the modernity of an island nation whose habit of importing foreign ideas is less about assimilation than transformation, less a process of indigenization than one of cultural invention. The realization that buildings are dynamic events—phenomena of space-in-time, not inert objects outside time—continues to inform Japanese architecture and suggests how we can rethink the history, theory, and practice of architecture more generally.
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"Modern Chinese architecture: 180 years" tells the dramatic story of the transformation of Chinese architecture from a predominantly modular, timber-frame, single-story building system with ceramic tile roofs of anonymous, local craftsmen to skyscrapers designed by internationally acclaimed architects, from temple markets and itinerant peddlers to megamalls, and from open(...)
août 2024
Modern Chinese architecture: 180 years
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"Modern Chinese architecture: 180 years" tells the dramatic story of the transformation of Chinese architecture from a predominantly modular, timber-frame, single-story building system with ceramic tile roofs of anonymous, local craftsmen to skyscrapers designed by internationally acclaimed architects, from temple markets and itinerant peddlers to megamalls, and from open air stages to auditoriums and stadiums with cutting-edge acoustics. The architectural transformation occurs as China transforms from a dynasty ruled by emperors to a republic to a people’s republic, from a country in which fewer than half the male population, and perhaps 10 percent of the female population could read to at least 97% literacy, and from a population that was fewer than 5 percent to more than 60 percent urban.