China: Architectural Guide

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In an era of accelerating population growth, mass urbanization, and increasing pressure on the natural environment, the megacities of China's eastern seaboard have become a focal point of architectural and urban-design attention. The "reform and opening-up era" has touched China's major cities in different ways, affecting the existing fabric of dyn

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* Evan Chakroff, architectural designer and design technologist at LMN Architects, Seattle. Previously worked for Herzog & de Meuron, Massimiliano Fuksas, and NBBJ. Invited critic at the Knowlton School of Architecture and the University of Hong Kong, among others. Published essays in journals such as Log and CLOG and online at ArchDaily and Archinect.com. * Addison Godel, critic working towards a Ph.D. in architecture at Columbia University with a focus on relationships between modern architecture and its social and political contexts. Holds an M.Arch from the Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture. Publishes intermittent architectural commentary online.