Designing Reform: Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992 Roskam Cole
Designing Reform: Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992 Roskam Cole Investigating the rich architecture of post-Mao China and its broad cultural impactIn the years following…
Specifikacia Designing Reform: Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992 Roskam Cole
Designing Reform: Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992 Roskam Cole
Investigating the rich architecture of post-Mao China and its broad cultural impactIn the years following China's Cultural Revolution, architecture played an active role in the country's reintegration into the global economy and capitalist world. 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. 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.
Offering important insights into architecture's relationship to the politics, economics, and Pei, and John Portman became key forces in the introduction of Western educational ideologies and new modes of production.