New China Architecture

Ruan, Xing

ISBN 10: 0794603890 / ISBN 13: 9780794603892

Verlag: Periplus Editions, Singapore, 2006

Beschreibung

Aqua boards with white lettering, color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 239 pp. Color illustrations. China's booming cities are evolving at a dizzying speed, and her new wealth has created a dynamic environment for architecture and construction. "New China Architecture" documents the spectacular transformation modern China has undergone in recent decades as the heady push to prosperity has inspired architects from China and around the globe to produce striking new designs. Award-winning professor of architecture, Xing Ruan, covers the entire range of China's most captivating new building projects--from Shanghai skyscrapers to public buildings in Beijing and Guangzhou, and from cutting-edge private homes and gleaming new airports to theaters and universities throughout China. Over the past few decades, architects, urban planners, and design aficionados everywhere have watched China's spectacular urban transformation with awe, and "New China Architecture" offers them a closer look at the country's most innovative new buildings. VG-/VG- corner bumping to boards, light corner and edge wear to dust jacket, ex-library copy with call number label and barcode sticker on dust jacket.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 172117

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: New China Architecture
• Verlag: Periplus Editions, Singapore
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0794603890
• ISBN-13: 9780794603892
• Einband: Hardcover
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • General Reference - Asian Architecture
  • Asian Architecture

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

A survey of contemporary Chinese architecture features the work of both foreign and local Chinese architects, covering residential housing, public buildings, office towers, designs for the Beijing Olympic Games, and adaptive reuses of older city buildings.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Xing Ruan is a professor of architecture at the University of New South Wales and was previously Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney. He was born in China and graduated with a degree in Architecture from the Southeast University in Nanjing. He has practiced and taught in China, New Zealand and Australia. He has been published widely on architecture, anthropology, architectural education and on contemporary Chinese architecture.