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Architecture in China and the Meaning of Modern
Author(s) -
Denison Edward
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.750
Subject(s) - china , modernization theory , exhibition , architecture , modernism (music) , meaning (existential) , art history , history , sociology , environmental ethics , law , philosophy , political science , epistemology , archaeology
What is generally understood by Modern architecture in China is set to be re‐evaluated across the world with a major exhibition this summer at the RIBA in London and a significant new book by Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren. Here co‐author and co‐curator of Modernism in China, Edward Denison , outlines why we need to look back to China's Modernist roots in the early 20th century if we are to understand the intense modernisation of the present. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.