Into The Dragons Mouth: Stories from an American Architect who changed China Wood Benjamin
Into The Dragons Mouth: Stories from an American Architect who changed China Wood Benjamin Ben Wood is a larger than life figure, an American architect who re-imagined both the heart of New York and…
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Into The Dragons Mouth: Stories from an American Architect who changed China Wood Benjamin
Ben Wood is a larger than life figure, an American architect who re-imagined both the heart of New York and the heart of Shanghai and in this unique memoir, he tells a thousand outrageous and wonderful stories from the back blocks of the American South in the 1950s through to the glittering skylines of the 21st century. But his life's work has been the re-imagining of urban life. His design of the Xintiandi area of Shanghai set the standard for urban renewal across all of China's cities, but that's just the beginning of the amazing tales he has to tell in Into The Dragon's Mouth.A post-war Huckleberry Finn growing up in Georgia, Ben drove across the country while in high school, partook in the Summer of Love, and flew Phantom fighter jets with the USAF in Europe at the height of the Cold War.
Ben's approach to architectural design is unique and the stories around all he has