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."
| ISBN: | 9781032907321 |
| Publication date: | 18th November 2025 |
| Author: | Ruo Jia |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 296 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Architecture |
| Genres: |
Theory of architecture Western philosophy from c 1800 History of architecture |
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.
Chinese Experimental Architecture or French Poststructuralist Theory features in the following genres: Regional / International studies, Cultural studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation and independence, Theory of architecture, History of architecture, Philosophy, Civil engineering, surveying and building
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Chinese Experimental Architecture or French Poststructuralist Theory was written by Ruo Jia and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Chinese Experimental Architecture or French Poststructuralist Theory has 296 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Research in Architecture series
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