Title & Author:

Beauty and the East / edited by Robert Klanten and Elli Stuhler ; foreword by Wang Shu ; translation from Chinese to English by Yoko Choy Wai-Ching.

Publication:

Berlin : Gestalten, 2021.
©2021

Description:

319 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 31 cm + 1 insert (1 unnumbered leaf : color illustrations ; 31 x 24 cm)

Notes:
Cover title.
Tip-in: One leaf of plate.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
We are running toward a new world of uncertainty : a foreword / Wang Shu -- Building at an unprecedented scale : an introduction / Yoko Choy Wai-Ching -- Sanhe Residence, Amateur Architecture Studio -- Bigger, denser, and more populous: Devising housing solutions amid rapidly growing cities -- JCA Living Lab, J.C. Architecture -- U-Shaped Room, Atelier tao+c -- Two-Fold Yard, TAOA -- Zhu'an Residence, Zhaoyang Architects -- Sunyata Hotel, Zhaoyang Architects -- Lost Villa Boutique Hotel, DAS Lab -- Cave House in Loess Plateu, hyperSity Architects -- Boat Rooms on the Fuchun River, Design Institute of Landscape and Architecture China Academy of Art -- Wutopia Lab -- The Other Place, Studio 10 -- X+Living -- Harbin Opera House, MAD Architects -- Liyang Museum, CROX International -- Garden Hotspot Restaurant, MUDA-Architects -- SINICA Eco Pavilion, Emerge Architects -- Back to the countryside: How China's hinterlands are being revitalized with markets, libraries, and hotels -- Capsule Hotel and Bookstore, Atelier tao+c -- San Sa Village, IILab. -- Public Toilets in Zuzhai Village, Atelier cnS/South China University of Technology -- Party and Public Service Center, LUO Studio -- Rethinking the roles of traditional architecture following decades of "demolish and rebuild" -- Inkstone House OCT Linpan Cultural Center, Archi-Union Architects -- V House of Dashilar, hyperSity Architects -- Quad of Gourd, Urbanus -- Twisting Courtyard, ARCHSTUDIO -- Wuyuan Skywells Hotel, anySCALE -- Vector Architects -- As thousands of new museums are built in China, architects compete to make their mark -- UCCA Dune Art Museum, OPEN Architecture -- Jishou Art Museum, Atelier FCJZ -- AZL Architects -- Long Museum West Bund, Atelier Deshaus -- Water-Moon Monastery, KRIS YAO | ARTECH -- TEA Community Center, Waterfrom Designb -- Lianzhou Museum of Photography, O-office Architects -- Ningbo Historic Museum, Amateur Architecture Studio -- Neri&Hu -- Growing Up, New Office Works -- Meditation Hall, HIL Architects.
Translated from the Chinese.

ISBN:

9783899558722 (hardbound)
3899558723 (hardbound)

Subject:

Architecture, Chinese 21st century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture chinoise 21e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture, Chinese.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Klanten, Robert, editor.
Stuhler, Elli, editor.
Wang, Shu, 1963- writer of foreword.
Choy Wai-ching, Yoko, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 310052
Call No.: BIB 255180
Status: Available