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Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai
/ excerpt from the daily journal from trip to China regarding international.udel.edu/projects/Day10.html...
China’s Instant Cities
/ This year China will add more than 17 million people to its urban population. To house this unprecedented wave of migration from the country side, cities like S...
Architecture of China
/ Chinese-Architecture was founded in Oct 2009 with the one mission of delivering the most complete information to Chinese Architecture and Chinese Architects; We...
DesignChina
/ was first founded inSeptember 2000, it is the first internet base design cooperation inChina. Through years of steady market growth and successful businessexpan...
China Northwest Building Design Research Institute
/ China Northwest Building Design Research Institue, founded inJun.1,1952, is one of the 6 national-key Grade A architectural designinstitutes for big regions as ...
Architecture for Tibet
/ Architecture for Tibet is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of Tibetans living in exile in impoverished regions of Arunachal Pradesh, N...
New architecture
/ Published bi-monthly in Chinawww.newarch.com.cn...
Huazhong Architecture
/ Published monthly in Chinesewww.airiti.com/ceps/ec_en/ecJnlIntro.aspx?Jnliid=1539&newIssueiid=76535&jnlcattype=0&jnlptype=0&jnltype=0...
Journal of Architecture
/ Publisher: Architectural Institute of the Republic of Chinawww.airiti.com/ceps/ec_en/ecJnlIntro.aspx?Jnliid=842&newIssueiid=82155&jnlcattype=0&jnlptype=0&jnltyp...
Journal of Architecture and Planning
/ Published semi-yearly in Chinese Publisher: School of Architecture and Planning, Chung Hua Universitywww.airiti.com/ceps/ec_en/ecJnlIntro.aspx?Jnliid=431&newIss...
Journal of Architecture and Civil Engineering
/ Published quarterly in Chinesewww.airiti.com/ceps/ec_en/ecJnlIntro.aspx?Jnliid=2666&newIssueiid=69455&jnlcattype=0&jnlptype=0&jnltype=0...
Journal of Anhui Institute of Architecture & Industry
/ Natural Sciencewww.airiti.com/ceps/ec_en/ecJnlIntro.aspx?Jnliid=3030&newIssueiid=83815&jnlcattype=0&jnlptype=0&jnltype=0...
Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture
/ Published monthly in Englishwww.airiti.com/ceps/ec_en/ecJnlIntro.aspx?Jnliid=4105&newIssueiid=80894&jnlcattype=0&jnlptype=0&jnltype=0...
International New Architecture
/ The international view of architecture, interior and regional designwww.internationalnewlandscape.com...
International New Landscape
/ International New Landscape www.internationalnewlandscape.com...
Frontiers of Architecture and Civil Engineering in China
/ Academic journal from the Dutch publisher Springerwww.springerlink.com/content/120538/?p=f8466a9e66d749f492d0fa328e40639f&pi=0...
Rethinking China`s urbanization: an institutional innovation perspective
/ During the past two decades, China has witnessed a rapid rate of urbanization and is faced with unique problems due to the country`s natural resources, history,...
New Chinese architecture in old style
/ Photo essay with many good images about contemporary buildings in traditional style here and there among the thousands of new developments.www.skyscrapercity.co...
Peoples Architecture Foundation
/ Peoples Architecture Foundation is a not-for-profit cultural and educational organization that seeks to strengthen the relationship between China and the United...
The Dynamic City Foundation
/ is a research and design institute focusedon the rapid transformations of Chinas urban landscape. In 2003 theDCF has started the Urban China 2020 project; an in...
next-99
/ {in Chinese simplified}www.next-99.com/...
Cnartla
/ {in Chinese simplified} Chinese landscape art networkwww.cnartla.com/...
abcopen.com
/ {in Chinese simplified} Construction, building materials, real estate, related services circle www.abcopen.com/...
21ebuild
/ {in Chinese simplified}www.21ebuild.com/...
Jzcad.com
/ {In Chinese simplified} A website on constructionjzcad.com/...
FAR 2000
/ {in Chinese simplified} Free Architecture Report, online since February 2000www.far2000.com/...
a {website} for {architecture} and {criticism}
/ {in chinese simplified} hyzonet.comwww.hyzonet.com/...
Dingding Landscaping Network
/ {in chinese simplified} ddyuanlin.comwww.ddyuanlin.com/...
ABBS
/ {in Chinese} Architecture www.abbs.com.cn/...
skyscrapers.cn
/ {in chinese} Skyscrapers Website for Chinese Nationals Worldwidewww.skyscrapers.cn/...
Forbidden Cities
/ The city planner Edmund Bacon once describedBeijing as “possibly the greatest single work of man on the face of theearth.” When he was there, in the nineteen-th...
sinocities blog
/ Website featuring news on citieswww.sinocities.net/...
movingcities.org
/ movingcities is not as interested in conditions of transition as such,but rather in processes of intensification, circulation, accumulation,formation and standa...
Young Generation Architecture in China
/ Asia Dialogue 2, a presentation by LI XIAODONG, MARCH 25, 2006, at the CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE, NEW YORK.peoplesarchitecture.com/asia_dialoges_2_li_xiaodong.pdf...
BEIJING SHANGHAI ARCHITECTURE GUIDE
/ Architecture and Urbanism, May 2005 Special Issue. Although Beijing and Shanghai have differing historical depths and backgrounds, it would be no exaggeration...
Department of Architecture The Chinese University of Hong Kong
/ Website of Department of Architecture The Chinese University of Hong Kongwww.arch.cuhk.edu.hk/...
Hunan University
/ Official website of Hunan Universitywww.hnu.cn/English/schools.htm...
School of Architecture, Nanjing University
/ Official website of Nanjing Universitygsa.nju.edu.cn/index_en.htm...
Shenzen University College of Architecture and Civil engineering
/ Official website of Shenzen University College of Architecture and Civil engineeringwww.szu.edu.cn/en/colleges.asp...
South China University of Technology
/ Official website of South China University of Technologywww.scut.edu.cn/home.html...
SouthEast University
/ Department of Architecturewww.seu.edu.cn/~seue/academics/dept/1.htm...
Tongji University
/ College of Architecture and Urban Planningwww.tongji.edu.cn/english/Academics/College%20of%20Architecture%20and%20Urban%20Planning.asp...
Tsinghua University
/ Official website of Tsinghua Universitywww.tsinghua.edu.cn/...
Xi’an University of Achitecture & Technology
/ Official website of Xi’an University of Achitecture & Technologywww.xauat.edu.cn/jdeg/index.html...
Xiamen University
/ College of Architecture and Civil Engineeringwww.xmu.edu.cn/2005/english/az_detail.asp?ID=15...
Asianart
/ China Exploration & Research Society{CERS} and Kham Aid Foundation Conserving Tibetan Art and Architecturewww.asianart.com/cers/...
China Architecture Design & Research Group
/ China Architecture Design & Research Group {CAG}, a merger of the Architecture Design Institute Ministry of Construction and the China Building Technology D...
House-China
/ China National Engineering Research Center for Human Settlements {CNERCHS}, approved by the Ministry of Science & Technology and Ministry of Construction, w...
Ron Gluckman in Cyberspace
/ Articles on this site appeared in varying form {generally with better photos, since, except as noted, these are mainly Ron`s snapshots} in such periodicals as T...
TimeAsia
/ An issue about rebuilding Chinawww.time.com/time/asia/covers/501040503/...
china-architects
/ Profiles of selected architectswww.chinese-architects.com/...
Building Castles in the Sky
/ Yansong Ma likes buildings to float. He likes them to bend and swivel and – he hopes, one day – to shoot up from mushroom-like stems and spread out in horizonta...
New Architects of China
/ Design students in the 1980s and `90s hadno creative role models and little contemporary Chinese design to drawfrom, leaving them with something akin to a blank...
Philospohy and Modernization in China : Chinese Philosophical Studies XIII
/ Cultural heritage and contemporary change series III, Aaia, Volume 13 Full text available online. Efforts at modernization in China have travelled a very long a...
Architectural Society of China (ASC)
/ Beijing, Chinawww.chinaasc.org/english/...
Shandong Institute of Architecture
/ Official website of Shandong Institute of Architecturewww.sdai.edu.cn/englishver/...
10 Wonders of the New China
/ It´s a hotbed of innovative architecture, from diaphanous theaters to buildings heated and cooled by waterimages.businessweek.com/ss/05/12/china_wonders/i...
Inside China Today
/ China, Taiwan & Hong Kong Architecture & Design Newswww.einnews.com/china-taiwan-hong-kong/newsfeed-china-taiwan-hk-architecture-design...
Reinventing Qingpu
/ Qingpu, which has recently gotten a burst of foreign investment with multinational companies like Dupont, Honeywell, and Hitachi setting up light manufacturing ...
AECasia - Architecture China
/ Comprehensive directory on the architecture of Chinawww.aecasia.com/viewresource.asp?id=1&name=architecture...
Architectural Record/CHINA
/ Contemporary architects and projects of Chinaarchrecord.construction.com/china/...
2006 Business Week / Architectural Record China Awards
/ 16 Winners From Around China Show How Good Design is Good Businessimages.businessweek.com/ss/06/04/chinaawards/index_01.htm...
Architectural Record China Awards
/ The first group of winning projects are located all over China—from Lijiang and Chongqing to Shenzhen and Beijing—and their architects come from both China and ...
Architectural Record/CHINA News Archive
/ News as articles since June 2005, about the contemporary architecture of Chinaarchrecord.construction.com/ar_china/news.asp...
Architecture at a Juncture
/ China gave the world the Great Wall, pagoda roofs, screens, joints and other innovations of garden architecture. Yet that was centuries ago. Since then, China h...
Beijing: Bold? Brazen?
/ At least architecturally speaking, since a number of new designs are unlike anything ever seen in China, or anywhere else for that matter. Suddenly the focus of...
Chinese Architects Look to the Future while Connecting with the Past
/ An overlook on the contemporary Chinese architects and their projectsarchrecord.construction.com/ar_china/featureZhuChang-1.asp...
Bridging The Gap
/ Ar awards for emerging architecture 2005. About the bridge in a China village, by Chinese University of Hong Kongwww.arplusd.com/arawards05/arawards05pdfs/ardec...
Buildings Born with a Delicate Balance
/ Yung Ho Chang´s architecture melds Chinese tradition and global modernism, while blurring the lines between nature and man-made structuresimages.businessw...
Housing A Billion: Volume III Beijing: Documents
/ Neighborhood Regeneration in Beijing: An Overview Of Projects Implemented in the Inner City Since 1990, research paper from McGill University School of Architec...
Housing A Billion: Volume III: Urban Renewal in Beijing, Observation and Analysis
/ Housing A Billion: Volume III Document Housing Renewal in Beijing - Observation and Analysis, research paper from McGill University School of Architecture by Zh...
Housing Choices and Changing Residential Patterns in Transitional Urban China
/ What kinds of individual and household characteristics affect housing choice, and how relevant are the existing Western theories?www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/eass/tran...
Vernacular
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Experiencia en una vivienda rural cerca de Beijing
/ (In Spanish) Después de dos días de casada me fui a China con mi esposo Ricardo. Tanto Ricardo como yo queríamos experimentar un lugar diferente, así que hace u...
Chinese Rural Architecture
/ Photographs by Olivier Laude and brief texts by Ronald G. Knapp. Up to ten photographs per province.www.atlasmagazine.com/photo/laude6/...
Vocabulary of Vernacular Architecture
/ Quanzhou´s Vernacular Architecture as a set of characteristic elements which occur repeatedly throughout the residential environment of the Old City.cours...
China Housing
/ A rich directory on Chinese housingchineseculture.about.com/cs/chinahousing/...
New Paltz
/ Chinese Vernacular Architecture & General Chinese Architecture--Web Linkswww2.newpaltz.edu/~knappr/...
The China Experience: China Culture Index
/ Website includes articles on the art, architecture and culture of China.www.chinavista.com/experience/index.html...
Modern history (1920’s-60’s)
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Neighborhood Regeneration in Beijing: An Overview Of Projects Implemented in the Inner City Since 19
/ This thesis provides an overview of the regeneration projectsimplemented in the inner-city of Beijing between 1990-94. It identifies thediverse approaches used,...
Famous Architect -- Wu Liangyong
/ The biography of Wu Liangyongwww.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_26429.htm...
Globalization and the Urban System in China
/ Article by Anthony Gar-on Yeh and Xueqiang Xuwww.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu11ee/uu11ee0p.htm#globalization%20and%20the%20urban%20system%20in%20china...
History imperial and colonial
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The Tang architectural icon and the politics of Chinese architectural history.{Critical Essay}
/ Intellectually, one can never justify exclusive or selective history,especially by the modern founder of a field, but in such an instance,an explanation can som...
The Nianhua Gallery
/ This site is dedicated to the visual culture of pre-modern rural China.www.ssc.uwo.ca/history/nianhua/...
Don’t Lose the History Again: The Forming, Developing and Crisis of the Identity of Tsingtao City
/ Tsingtao had formed its identity during the period ofGermany occupation from 1897to 1914, which combinedthe Germany culture and Chinese culture. The city’s iden...
Art and Design
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Thinking Thing: Seeking Soul---New Asian Generation Product Exhibition
/ Design, a growing industry, plays an important role in culture and economy. Especially in China, numerous opportunities have emerged in this period of rapid dev...
design online
/ {in Chinese and English} News, competition, gallery... More information in Chinese version. www.dolcn.com/...
DesignOnline
/ DesignOnline was founded in 1997 and for years we havekept enriching and expanding its categories and services. Soon it hasgrown as one of the most influential ...
Shanghai Art Chase
/ A classroom blog, on contemporary art and new media in relationto China, with focus on Shanghai. Managed by NYU in ShanghaiContemporary Art & New Media Clas...
Chinese Landscape Architecture
/ Published monthly in Chinese with English summariesChinese Landscape Architecture Magazine Publicationwww.jchla.com/...
798 Art Zone
/ Also called Dashanzi Art District, is a part of Dashanzi in the Chaoyang District of Beijing that houses a thriving artist community, among 50-year old decommis...
Abbeijing
/ The 2nd Architectural Biennial °§ Beijing. The 2nd Architectural Biennial Beijing{ABB2006} is organized jointly by the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry...
Longmarch
/ the Long March is a multifaceted art and social project that continually revisit different contexts, historical and geographical locations, crossing borders and...
TimeAsia
/ Articles and biographies of artists, architectures etc.www.time.com/time/asia/features/china_cul_rev/...
DesignOnLine
/ design portal of China with a directory of schools industrial design, graphic design, environment design, digital media and more.www.dolcn.com/...
Alternative
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INBAR International Network for Bamboo and Rattan
/ INBAR-IKON is an international repository for bamboo and rattan research resources. It collects information about the institutions/organizations related to bamb...
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