Roskam, Cole, author.

Designing reform : architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992 / Cole Roskam.

New Haven, [CT] ; London : Yale University Press, [2021]
©2021

vi, 290 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm

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.

9780300235951 (hardcover)
030023595X (hardcover)

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Architecture and society
Architecture Political aspects
Architecture Political aspects China History 20th century.
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