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Designing reform : architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992 / Cole Roskam.
Fine Arts Library NA1545 .R67 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roskam, Cole, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--China--History--20th century.
- Architecture.
- Architecture and society.
- Architecture--Political aspects.
- China.
- History.
- Architecture--Political aspects--China.
- Architecture and society--China.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 290 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- In the years following China's Cultural Revolution, architecture played an active role in the country's reintegration into the global economy and capitalist world. Looking at the ways in which political and social reform transformed Chinese architecture and how, in turn, architecture gave structure to the reforms, Cole Roskam underlines architecture's unique ability to shape space as well as behavior. Roskam traces how foreign influences like postmodernism began to permeate Chinese architectural discourse in the 1970s and 1980s and how figures such as Kevin Lynch, I. M. Pei, and John Portman became key forces in the introduction of Western educational ideologies and new modes of production. Offering important insights into architecture's relationship to the politics, economics, and diplomacy of post-Mao China, this unprecedented interdisciplinary study examines architecture's multivalent status as an art, science, and physical manifestation of cultural identity.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Reception
- ch. 2 The Study Tour and the Exhibition
- ch. 3 The Brick, the Block, and the Panel
- ch. 4 Architectural History and Heritage
- ch. 5 The Joint Venture and the SEZ
- ch. 6 The International Hotel
- ch. 7 Postmodernism
- ch. 8 Architectural Education and the Profession
- ch. 9 China in Africa.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 030023595X
- 9780300235951
- OCLC:
- 1245473857
- Publisher Number:
- 99989319491
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