Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years tells the dramatic story of the transformation of Chinese architecture from a predominantly modular, timber-frame, single-story building system with ceramic tile ...

China’s modern shopping malls are increasingly designed with large indoor gardens, multi level escalators, and open architectural layouts that create more comfortable public environments for visitors.

This modern urban area in China highlights contemporary architecture designed alongside green public spaces and organized ...

A factory disappears into a cave. Stalinist towers push toward the sky. The Great Hall of the People stretches out space for 10,000 citizens, columns marching as if the room itself were on parade.

Though architectural history courses and texts now feature prehistoric, native, and non-Western architecture, as a rule, time spent on the rich, longstanding tradition of East Asian building arts is ...

Modern architecture is the architectural style that dominated the Western world between the 1930s and the 1960s and was characterized by an analytical and functional approach to building design.