
The Chinese city of Yiwu is undergoing a modern-day Gold Rush of novelty item suppliers

Source of both peasant revolution and cultural continuity, the countryside has long held a place in Chinese mythology

An exploration of bamboo and adobe to support an ecological lifestyle at the Longquan International Biennale

The tenth offering of the UABB is a patrician approach to the ‘problem’ of urbanising China

Is the ubiquity of ‘culture’ in the conservation and reuse of former industrial danweis related to a desire to conceal historical traumas and the political dimension of urban change?

The cultural transformation brought about by urban development branded with art is a successful hybrid of state and market forces

Although landscape was long the primary theme of Chinese painting, the role of architectural depictions was an incredibly important one

Beijing Design Week shines a light on the marginalised hutong population of Dashilar, but in so doing feeds the gentrification machine

A graphic novels depicts the poetic charm of life in the hutongs, but also the difficulties

Architects have been circumspect in their criticism of the Chinese state during the building boom that has bankrolled the profession through the recession

In the early twentieth century, China’s period of modernisation was also one of ‘foreignisation’

China’s growing market for contemporary art has spawned an equally revolutionary crop of new buildings

In 1947, Sir John Pratt documents his grand journey across China

The registration system victimises migrants from rural areas

The pattern of Chinese life is made up of the formalities of Confucianism and the informalities of Taoism. It is in the house that the demands of the former are satisifed

Back in 2008, China’s focus on rapid expansion left architecture in the slipstream

Today, a new generation of architects shows a renewed commitment to design

When my children are away from me, I want them to be safe. Building design is central to that safety.

Drawing its symbolic strength from its foregrounding of the people, Tiananmen Square is the architectural void at the core of the urban transformation of Beijing, from ancient imperial city to new socialist capital

IM Pei’s first project, a Museum for Chinese Art published in 1948, explored themes of Chineseness he returned to 60 years later with his Suzhou Museum, but was misunderstood by Western critics

The Western media mock the emptiness of the vast Chinese city of Ordos, but the true failure is Ai Weiwei’s disastrous attempts at development

Speakers from over 20 countries contributed to an exciting, critical and unfettered debate about the future of development in China

Speakers from over 20 countries contributed to an exciting, critical and unfettered debate about the future of development in China

Despite historic roots in two eminent institutions − Xi’an Jiaotong University, founded in 1896 as the Nanyang Public School, and Liverpool University, the oldest university school of architecture in Britain − the recently established Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), a Sino-British partnership with a freshly minted Department of Architecture, feels completely new

Wang Shu, the Chinese recipient of the 2012 Pritzker Prize, is a champion of architectural heritage in a country that has erased much of its built past

As the COP17 talks emphasise the need for action on climate change, China is using sustainable development as a political tool

Oriel Prizeman examines six recent libraries in the first of a new quarterly series on typology

Cardboard shakes off its functional connotations to form an unlikely material for two art installations

Guangzhou Opera House testifies to the city’s huge cultural ambitions
China has embraced media camouflage, with walls of pixels masking architecture

All the word’s stage: countries show off at the Shanghai Expo keep to catch China’s eye

Once a peaceful,historic resort, gambling boomnow sparks a dash for brash in the Vegas of the East

Eliasson and Yansong’s instalation challanges normal feelings of spacial awareness