{"product_id":"designing-reform-cole-roskam-9780300235951","title":"Designing Reform: Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInvestigating the rich architecture of post-Mao China and its broad cultural impact\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 traces how foreign influences like postmodernism began to permeate Chinese architectural discourse in the 1970s and 1980s and how figures such as Kevin Lynch, I. M. Pei, and John Portman became key forces in the introduction of Western educational ideologies and new modes of production. Offering important insights into architecture's relationship to the politics, economics, and diplomacy of post-Mao China, this unprecedented interdisciplinary study examines architecture's multivalent status as an art, science, and physical manifestation of cultural identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cole Roskam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 030023595X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300235951\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 7.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2022","brand":"Cole Roskam","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43988496187647,"sku":"9780300235951","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4fd8e8fa-b551-4f7e-8074-a73087272885.jpg?v=1683294799","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/designing-reform-cole-roskam-9780300235951","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}