BOOKS - New Horizons: Eight Perspectives on Chinese Landscape Architecture Today
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New Horizons: Eight Perspectives on Chinese Landscape Architecture Today
Author: Jutta Kehrer
Year: October 26, 2020
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 50 MB
Language: English
Year: October 26, 2020
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 50 MB
Language: English
A new generation of Chinese landscape architects, that has hardly been registered outside China, is innovative, optimistic, radical, yet rooted in local context and tradition. Thanks to their international experience in training and practice, they seamlessly combine eastern and western influences to create something new. They design open spaces in high-density cities and revitalize remote rural areas. Their projects are characterized by interaction and change.New Horizons is the first portrait of this an external view provided by expert essays is followed by detailed and richly-illustrated profiles of eight successful studios including interviews with founders. An essential reading for everyone interested in the current discourse shaping the contemporary Chinese landscape architecture.