Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years tells the dramatic story of the transformation of Chinese architecture from a predominantly modular, timber-frame, single-story building system with ceramic tile ...

Liu Jiakun. Image © Tom Welsh for The Hyatt Foundation:The Pritzker Architecture Prize I first went to China in 2002, a year after the International Olympic ...

Among these, Chinese aesthetics has its own unique school of thought. Today, a fresh wave of neo-Chinese aesthetics, rooted in tradition and blended with contemporary innovation, is reaching people ...

The winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, announced Tuesday, is Liu Jiakun. The prize, established in 1979, is commonly referred to as "the Nobel Prize of architecture." Liu is from ...

Vector Architects, Alila Yangshuo Hotel, Yangshuo, Guilin, Guangxi, China, 2013–2017. (Photograph by Shengliang Su; MoMA 295.2020.2) As noted in a MoMa press release, Reuse, Renew, Recycle was ...

The "Constructive Deconstruction" model, designed by Chinese-born, Harvard-trained designer Siyu Zhu, shows how Manhattan's obsolete docks can be converted into modular public spaces for a fraction of ...

BEIJING – Every year, thousands of Beijing’s century-old alleyways and historical courtyard residences are demolished to make way for high-rising blocks of concrete and glass. But now one Chinese ...