关于建筑的外语文章
production is radically dynamic.It is also limited by the institutional bodies presiding over isolated responses to environmental,political and social conditions,making China an ever more relevant and important project for the 21st century.Like knowledge,architecture becomes actionable when it escapes overly rehearsed design formulas,splintering away from centralized authorities of spatial production.Spatial Splinters are concerned with mutations in the deep structures of architectural production.
Today,Chinese architects are grappling with,and realizing some success,in defining a contemporary Chinese architecture.They follow in the wake of waves of a generation of prominent global architects from John Portman,I.M.Pei,Paul Andreu,Norman Foster,Skidmore Owings and Merrill,and Steven Holl,who, for over a decade,have sought and found major commissions in china.
While the internationally fueled projects were occurring,however,other forces were at play in China that have changed contemporary architecture.Schools of architecture,such as Beijing's Tsinghua University and Shanghai's Tongji University,encouraged dialogue and exchange.Universities have been instrumental in examining historic preservation,a critical concern,and in particular research and conservation,by practitioner/academics such as Prof.Chang Qing at Tongji University.Additionally,Chinese architectures like Chang Yung Ho and Ma QingYung have severed as deans at schools of architecture abroad,at MIT and the University of Southern California,respectively.
The major design institutes,and in particular their design studios led by significant practitioners such as Cui Kai at the China Design Institute,are developing indigenous talent, many of whom have collaborated with international designers.Architectural publications grew in sophistication and scope within China,bringing to light the best of contemporary Chinese and worldwide architectural work,such as Beijing-based World Architecture and Time+Architecture from Shanghai.
The development of collateral disciplines,including engineering and landscape architecture,has enriched the architectural dialogue.Turenscape, a landscape design studio led by Dean Yu Kongjian,in conjunction with Peking University,has engaged former urban industrial sites,among other projects,reinvesting them with new open spaces.A new generation of planners and government officials,like Dr Sun JiWei,formerly in Qingpu and now Jiading District Mayor,(a satellite city of Shanghai)is reinvisioning the total Chinese city.
Simultaneously with China's massive demographic shift to cities from the countryside,an explosion of the arts has fueled the architectural dialogue.The occasional loosening of restrictions of expression coupled with rising economies and widespread interest in Chinese expression within and outside of China has resulted in a flourishing of the arts.Visual artists like Ai Wei-Wei,who has designed constructed installations and entire buildings,blur the line between art and architecture and social commentary,and encourage their architect-colleagues to reciprocate.At another level,galleries sought cheap,simple housing in converted industrial facilities,prized for their large,open spaces and light,which has resulted in the transformation of the successful Factory 798 or Dashanzi Arts District in Beijing,or Shanghai's M50.The