Main entry:

Rowe, Peter G., author.

Title & Author:

Chinese modern : episodes backward and forward in time / Peter G. Rowe, Liang Wang and Zhanliang Chen.

Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, [2022]
©2022

Description:

333 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, maps (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1 : Introduction ; China within a geography of thought ; Compact settlement and all under one ; What it is to be modern ; Organization of this book -- Chapter 2 : Foreign influence and the early Chinese generations ; Modern planning influences ; Treaty ports and cosmopolitanism ; Modern planning from the East ; Imported plans and municipal governance ; Early evolution of modern architecture ; Adaptive approaches ; Art Deco and other modern influences ; Modern emergences with Chinese characteristics -- Chapter 3 : Socialist content, cultural form and its radicalization ; Establishing a socialist city and other settlements ; Soviet influences ; Chinese construals ; Big city plans ; Collectivization ; Realism and building from big roofs to thin boxes ; Realism, content and form ; Styles of socialist content and cultural form ; The slide into function, economy, and appearance when circumstances allow ; Radicalization of socialist content and form -- Chapter 4 : Reform, agency and modernity ; Planning to market refrains ; Shenzhen and the opening up ; The southern tour and outcomes ; Breaks with the planning of prior eras ; Urban formation and performance ; Architecture with modern substance and Chinese form ; Realists, traditional culturalists and other discourses ; Pursuing historical heritage ; An architecture of the present-future ; From tradition to hyper-modernity and critical regionalism -- Chapter 5 : New normal and the China dream ; Further embraces in spatial planning and development ; Re-lining protected territories ; Metropolitan regions and clusters ; Megaplots and one size fits all ; Smart cities as a new way forward ; An architecture of the time ; Manifestations of third stream architecture ; Regionalism and phenomenology ; Suitable, economic, green and pleasing to the eye ; Chinese architecture past and future.

Summary:

Rowe's third volume on the architecture of the Far East deals with the development of modern architecture and planning in China, with a focus on this development within the broader framework of nation-building. Episodes and periods interrogated in the book range from the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 to the proclamation of Xi Jinping's 'China Dream' 100 years later. Episodes will be foregrounded by commentary about the general states of the nation and particularly by urban planning undertakings. Providing a wide-ranging survey of Chinese modern architecture that has a historic aspect to it, the book introduces the reader to a plethora of originative and influential buildings, momentous urban schemes as well as the architects and planners behind them.

ISBN:

9783035626308 (hardcover)
3035626308 (hardcover)
(electronic book)
9783035626339

Subject:

Architecture China History 20th century.
City planning China History 20th century.
Nation-building.
Architecture Chine Histoire 20e siècle.
Reconstruction d'une nation.
Architecture
City planning
China

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Wang, Liang (Architect), author.
Chen, Zhanliang, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317160
Call No.: 317160
Copy: 1
Status: Available