Main entry:

Repellino, Maria Paola, author, book designer.

Title & Author:

Fun mill : the architecture of creative industry in contemporary China / Maria Paola Repellino.

Publication:

[Novato, CA] : ORO Editions, [2022]
©2022

Description:

209 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
"Author: Maria Paola Repellino; Foreword: Michele Bonino and Francesca Governa; Afterword: Lu Andong; Book design: Maria Paola Repellino; Translation into English: Erika Geraldine Young; Managing editor: Jake Anderson"--Title page verso.
Publishing location obtained from publisher website.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207).
Clusters for Creative Industries -- The Creative Industry and the Real Estate Market -- The Prototype. 798 Art Zone -- The Model Shaped on Site. M50 Art District -- M Woods Entrance Revitalisation -- Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art -- Iberia Centre for Contemporary Art -- Minsheng Museum of Modern Art -- Scaling Down. iD Town -- Scaling Up. Jinling Art Museum -- Legend Town -- Now Factory Creative Office Park -- Dahua 1935 -- Renovation of Kunming Rubber Factory -- Enclosure. West Village -- Disclosures. OCT-Loft Renovation -- 77 Cultural and Creative Park -- Beijing Cidi Memo iTown -- Renovation of Wuzhen Beizha Silk Factory -- Yuyuan Road Redevelopment.

Summary:

Fun Mill. The Architecture of Creative Industry in Contemporary China looks closely on transforming existing real estate by promoting creative clusters, starting with specific architectures that are examined using an open-minded approach. What are the economic, political and design mechanisms used to build and legitimise them? What city concept is designed and built in these spaces? Can we identify recurrent features, general issues, and compositional orders and logic? The book discusses creative clusters as fertile ground for research and action involving the architectural and urban project and outlines several distinctive traits of professional and design practices in China in the last decade. In particular, the book focus on three recurrent methods used by architectural projects to reconfigure space - Collecting icons, Shifting scale, Bounding borders. These intervention methods were identified from a range of design experiences, richly illustrated with detailed drawings and photographs, including before and after views of the renovated spaces.

ISBN:

9781954081277 (paperback)
1954081278 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning China.
Public architecture China.
Architecture, Industrial China.
Architecture, Domestic China.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Architecture publique Chine.
Architecture industrielle Chine.
Public architecture
Architecture, Industrial
Architecture, Domestic
City planning
China

Added entries:

Bonino, Michele, 1974- writer of foreword.
Lu, Andong, writer of afterword.
Young, Erika Geraldine, translator.
Anderson, Jake (Managing editor), editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315709
Call No.: 315709
Copy: 1
Status: Available