Chinese Experimental Architecture or French Poststructuralist Theory : Different Patches of the Concrete (Routledge Research in Architecture)

Jia, Ruo

Routledge（2025/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 266 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032907321
• DDC分類 720.951

Full Description

Chinese Experimental Architecture Or French Poststructuralist Theory: Different Patches of the Concrete starts with a paradox: how the Chinese Cultural Revolution—through its adaptation by French Theory and French Theory's subsequent adaptation by Chinese Experimental Architecture—shaped the Chinese reformative effort to redefine itself, amidst its struggle against colonial dynamics, and against the Cultural Revolution.

Through French Poststructuralist Theory, the project creates a critical narrative to access the Chinese Experimental Architecture movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s and its legacy in contemporary Chinese architecture. At the same time, it provides, in retrospect, an opportunity to approach French Theory in its rich global materiality as a production of Chinese Experimental Architecture. This study thus overcomes simplistic dichotomies of dominant and subjugated, reductive labels of orientalism, self-orientalism, and nationalism, as well as architectural stylistic or operative canons. It opens such borders and enclosed entities in a positive way, exploring collaborative inquiries where new possibilities of different materialist architectural design and socio-eco-political epistemological structure emerge in a field of events, encounters, and connections around the problématique and signifier of the "concrete."

Contents

List of figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Problématique of a Broken Circle

Part I. The Chinese Experimental Architectural Assemblage

I. Shu Wang and "Fictionalizing City"

- The Chinese Architecture Scene in the 1980s Viewed from Nanjing Institute of Technology

- Theoretical Transformations of "Fictionalizing City"

- Concrete and Abstract Architectural Practice

II. Yungho Chang and Tu Mu

- The Blur of Chinese Experimental Architecture

- Tu Mu as Objective Architecture

III. Bing Zhao and Taiji Theory

IV. Juchuan Li and Concrete Architecture

Part Or. Staying Uncomfortably in the Space of the In-between Just a Little Longer

-Symptoms around Construction and Regionalism

-Feminist Possibilities

Part II. Poststructuralist Prehistory

VI. French Sinophilia

- The Concrete from Althusser to Tel Quel

- The Mark of Damisch and Barthes

VII. American and Chinese Transformations

- The American Fascination with Theory

- Chinese Cultural Fever

Index