Designing Reform: Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992

Investigating the rich architecture of post-Mao China and its broad cultural impact

In the years following China’s Cultural Revolution, architecture played an active role in the country’s reintegration into the global economy and capitalist world. Looking at the ways in which political and social reform transformed Chinese architecture and how, in turn, architecture gave structure to the reforms, Cole Roskam underlines architecture’s unique ability to shape space as well as behavior. Roskam...