Not much to say at this point, other than that the Shenzhen and Hong Kong Architecture Biennale was well worth the trip. It's nowhere near the scale of say, Venice, but the quality of the work is right up there (indeed, many of the same firms participating, and a lot of overlap in the curatorial... View full entry

One of the great, if seldom realized, promises of architecture is its capacity to affect change. The best architects seem to have this potential in mind constantly as they structure career-length narratives around the social impact that good design can achieve. While this is often hyperbole, and... View full entry

  [In December, I helped lead a tour of Architecture students through eastern China. The following few posts will be my brief impressions of the cities we visited. Today: Kaiping.] I don’t have a lot to say about the Kaiping Dialou tower houses: my knowledge is limited to what... View full entry

architect: Wang Shu, Amateur Architecture Studio, 2009 photos by the author.   A few months ago, I took a weekend trip from Shanghai down to Ningbo. The recently completed Hangzhou Bay Bridge (briefly the longest on earth, before it was surpassed by another, elsewhere in China) cuts the... View full entry

CHINA ARCHITECTURE TOUR: December 6 - 22, 2011 two week whirlwind tour of traditional, colonial, and contemporary architecture in China! (Sorry to post this - essentially an ad - here, but I see no better way to drum up interest and get more people involved...) This coming December I will be... View full entry