The Social Imperative: Architecture and the City in China

Author:   H. Koon Wee ,  Senior Research Fellow in Design Jeffrey Johnson (Open University, Milton Keynes)
Publisher:   Actar Publishers
Edition:   English
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9780989331791


Pages:   360
Publication Date:   01 September 2017
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   H. Koon Wee ,  Senior Research Fellow in Design Jeffrey Johnson (Open University, Milton Keynes)
Publisher:   Actar Publishers
Imprint:   Actar Publishers
Edition:   English
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780989331791


ISBN 10:   0989331792
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   01 September 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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H. Koon Wee is the Program Director of the HKU Cities in Asia Program, and founding Principal Architect of SKEW Collaborative. He is a Board Member of the non-profit Asian Urban Lab and founding member of the Docomomo HK Chapter. His most recent book is entitled Singapore Dreaming: Managing Utopia, and his forthcoming monograph entitled The Other Factory: Late Industrial Forms and Organization in China covers the unique histories of industrialization of China in the 20th century, narrated through a number of award-winning projects undertaken by SKEW. As a Dutch registered architect, Koon was recognized in the recent Fifty-under-Fifty: Innovators of the 21st Century juried by Stanley Tigerman, Ralph Johnson, Jeanne Gang, Marion Weiss and Qingyun Ma. Koon has also gained a number of international awards and recognition from the Chicago Athenaeum, Leading European Architects Forum, Asia Pacific Design Center, World Architecture News, Blueprint, Perspective, AD100, Conde Nast and others. SKEW's work has been exhibited at the Torino Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Venice Biennale, Shenzhen-HK Biennale, Chengdu Biennale, Anyang Public Art Program, A+UD Hub-to-Hub Public Program, and SENI, the precursor to the Singapore Biennale.

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