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Once Upon a China (Paperback)
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Once Upon a China (Paperback)
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Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great
beauty, empathy, honour and sadness. The chapters are ingenious
reimaginations of 'Dream of the Red Mansion', 'Journey to the West
', 'The Water Margin', and 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms', and are
conceived as specific themes of Chinese identity: domesticity,
consumerism, democracy and adaptability. These four seminal
pre-modern fictions contain diverse voices and philosophical
perspectives on history as well as satires that have defined past
developments of Chinese societies, politics and the built
environment. Comics is an unorthodox but extraordinary medium for
architectural speculations. The eccentric characteristics of
comic-inspired drawings in this book enrich the processes of
conception and conceptualisation of design - their fragmented yet
sequential nature proves versatile in the imagination of spatial
experiences, enabling the complex stories of place, brief and
building to materialise. At the same time, the politicisation of
architecture through comics engenders a sense of optimism to
reappraise Chinese design futures and critical thinking beyond the
exuberance of non-contextual Western capitalist models.
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