The wave of energy and vitality, not only economical, that is taking contemporary China by storm is linked as well to theoretical research on design and architectural composition, which, in particular, finds applications where project experimentation confronts the building and material aspects of architecture. This is demonstrated by the recent attribution of the Pritzker prize for 2012 to the Chinese architect Wang Shu for the projects included in this publication. Here, we are not interested in establishing a hierarchy, a conceptual classification or anything else; we are interested in knowing that it is possible – because in this project it has happened – to find commonalities within diversity, to work in a multifarious academic context, incorporating ideas from different schools, reveal new disciplinary boundaries not from the merely productive activity, but rather from the quality of thought and ideas. These projects have the merit of being intelligible – what they express is not abstract discourse and they do not obsessively develop an exclusively personal or professional research. At the most they open different perspectives, depending on originality of the different interventions, open on a single process, or, rather, on a common experience in doing architecture.

Architectures of ideas, architectures of thought

CATTANEO, TIZIANO
2012-01-01

Abstract

The wave of energy and vitality, not only economical, that is taking contemporary China by storm is linked as well to theoretical research on design and architectural composition, which, in particular, finds applications where project experimentation confronts the building and material aspects of architecture. This is demonstrated by the recent attribution of the Pritzker prize for 2012 to the Chinese architect Wang Shu for the projects included in this publication. Here, we are not interested in establishing a hierarchy, a conceptual classification or anything else; we are interested in knowing that it is possible – because in this project it has happened – to find commonalities within diversity, to work in a multifarious academic context, incorporating ideas from different schools, reveal new disciplinary boundaries not from the merely productive activity, but rather from the quality of thought and ideas. These projects have the merit of being intelligible – what they express is not abstract discourse and they do not obsessively develop an exclusively personal or professional research. At the most they open different perspectives, depending on originality of the different interventions, open on a single process, or, rather, on a common experience in doing architecture.
2012
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