Yung Ho Chang / Atelier Feichang Jianzhu: A Chinese Practice / Une Pratique Chinoise

Other authorsLaurent Gutierrez (Editor), Valérie Portefaix (Editor)
Paper Book, 2003

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Available

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Hong Kong : New York : Map Book Publishers, 2003.

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Perhaps China's most internationally acclaimed architect, Yung Ho Chang is particularly concerned with architecture's role in expressing and reflecting the indigenous culture. He advocates the wide use of bamboo as a building material in Chinese urban design, as put forth in his Bamboo City, exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2000, but while he focuses attention on the changes taking place in Beijing, he is mindful of the globalizing context in which the city is developing. In the past decade, Chang and his Atelier FCJZ (fei chang jan zhu, or "unusual architecture"), which he founded in the early 1990s as Beijing's first private architectural firm, have created a wide range of intellectually provocative urban projects in China that continue to receive acclaim.… (more)

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