No Particular Place To Go; Archinect Sessions #95

2017-01-26T20:05:00-05:00

This week on the podcast we are joined by Evan Chakroff. We discuss his latest piece on Cuba and Cuban architecture, travel, 360° photography, and more.

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Touring China's past, present, and future: an examination of "Architectural Guide China"

2015-12-09T18:02:00-05:00

If architecture is the ultimate fourth dimensional experience, then “Architectural Guide China” by Evan Chakroff, Addison Godel and Jacqueline Gargus is a remarkable fourth dimensional tour guide. It encapsulates not only the physical attributes and detailed locations of architecture in China, but its complex journey through time in a way that's compact enough to be useful, yet thorough enough to be thought-provoking.

The guide begins with three introductory essays, each of which attempts to make sense of the thousands of years of history, philosophy, and socio-economic realities that have informed both classical and contemporary Chinese architecture (all in less than fifty pages). This is of course a daunting if not impossible task, but each essay wisely chooses a specific aspect of this overwhelming scope to make a particular point. For his part, Evan Chakroff chooses to tackle what he describes as the centuries-old notion of ‘scalelessness’ in conjunction with rigidly defined diag...

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No Particular Place To Go; Archinect Sessions #95

Touring China's past, present, and future: an examination of "Architectural Guide China"