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A Writing for Celebrating Wu Liangyong's Centenial Birthday
Introduction This text is written on the happy occasion of Professor Wu Liangyong's one hundredth birthday and as homage to him as a \"people's architect,\" planner, historian, educator, dreamer, and humanist. His oeuvre, overcoming two centuries of catastrophic crises, bridges critical understanding of the past and visionary planning for the future. It brings together in a systemic, holistic synthesis design, construction, regional science, history, and urban sociology. Here, we trace concisely, the development of his thinking and practice, his optimism to conceive, repair, and construct after witnessing the great catastrophe during the World War II and a team of progressive intellectuals engaged in the war. His thinking evolved during his early days at Tsinghua University (1947) at Liang Sicheng's side, and during his studies at Cranbrook Academy (USA) under Eliel Saarinen and learning from modern industrial construction and finally from failures when design ignored the \"region\" and the environment. His last stop at Berkeley University helped him form his early ideas of an \"extended architecture\" deeply rooted in society and natural environment. Back in Tsinghua, Professor Wu Liangyong began a career in teaching, designing remarkable projects, producing his holistic theory of \"Sciences of Human Settlements,\" and establishing the \"Center for Human Settlements\" (1995). During these years, he continued to lecture internationally including Kassel University (1980) and T.U. Delft where we first met (1993). In Delft he presented his Ju'er Hutong (Chrysanthemum Path Hutong, 1987 - 1993, recognized as an achievement internationally), as a \"test\" towards a new method of urban development, rather than \"a real estate development.\" Wu's creations manifest that solving a design problem is not enough, \"the hardest\" is \"to identify the problem\" as well as to look at it not as an end but as a way without end, overcoming new problems, and staying optimistic.
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Greece
The remains of antiquity define Greek architecture in the popular imagination, but Greek edifices encompass far more than these ancient structures. Offered here is a comprehensive survey of modern Greek architecture of the past hundred-plus years. The book explores the buildings and architects of modern Greece, ranging from nineteenth-century neoclassical edifices to minimalist contemporary works and urban renewal projects. The ideas driving the creation of these buildings are given full attention, as the authors examine the influence of the rise of Modernism in the arts and the characteristics of regional styles, while also considering the reasons behind the bland, functional structures that have dominated Greek cityscapes since World War II. Greece situates this design survey within the nation's tumultuous cultural and political history, including the two world wars, a military dictatorship, civil war, and the consumerist boom of the 1990s.
A penetrating and thorough study, Greece offers a compelling account of modern Greek architecture that will be invaluable for all scholars of design and European history.
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The architecture of Jacques Ferrier
The Architecture of Jacques Ferrier is a review of this master architect's work to date in Europe and Asia: from the French pavilion designed for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 and the Tabarly Sailing Museum in Brittany; to showcase headquarters for Hachette Livres and Piper-Heidsieck Champagne and the next-generation skyscraper, Hypergreen. The book features introductory texts by world-renowned architectural commentators Alexander Tzonis and Kenneth Powell, and a fascinating and insightful interview with Jacques Ferrier.
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Greece
The remains of antiquity define Greek architecture in the popular imagination, but Greek edifices encompass far more than these ancient structures. Offered here is a comprehensive survey of modern Greek architecture of the past hundred-plus years.The book explores the buildings and architects of modern Greece, ranging from nineteenth-century neoclassical edifices to minimalist contemporary works and urban renewal projects. The ideas driving the creation of these buildings are given full attention, as the authors examine the influence of the rise of Modernism in the arts and the characteristics of regional styles, while also considering the reasons behind the bland, functional structures that have dominated Greek cityscapes since World War II. Greecesituates this design survey within the nation's tumultuous cultural and political history, including the two world wars, a military dictatorship, civil war, and the consumerist boom of the 1990s. A penetrating and thorough study, Greece offers a compelling account of modern Greek architecture that will be invaluable for all scholars of design and European history.
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