Introduction: Beyond the forbidden city; Genesis of Chinese buildings and cities; Architecture of the First Emperor and his predecessors; Han architecture; And age of turmoil: three kingdoms, two jins ...

Neither fully Chinese nor American, traditional nor modern, the latest Alhambra, California, outpost for Chinese restaurant Sichuan Impression is a mediation in duality. Los Angeles–based interior ...

Architects Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu have an intimate take on what architecture should be. For nearly two decades, the husband-and-wife duo have headed up Amateur Architecture Studio, a practice based in ...

Many of China’s ancient architectural treasures crumbled to dust before Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng began documenting them in the 1930s. In China, ancient structures were usually treated like any ...

I first went to China in 2002, a year after the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2008 Summer Games to Beijing. That initial trip was about exploring nature, cuisine, ancient temples, ...

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) has created a wonderfully dense retrospective of Poy Gum Lee, a Chinatown native whose buildings still stand in Shanghai and New York City. Poy Gum Lee, On ...

Architecture firms in Japan and China are using dougong in modern-day buildings Architects have long turned to the past for inspiration. In this age of glass and steel, however, they’re more likely to ...

2016 has been a momentous year for Chinese architecture. From the completion of the Harbin Opera house by MAD to the Aga Khan Awards recognizing Zhang Ke of Standard Architecture for his micro-scale ...

This video explores a modern public library in China designed with curved architectural forms inspired by natural landscapes and organic structures. Featuring smooth walls, circular windows, and grass ...

In July of this year, the new Sanxingdui Museum was officially completed. This large museum, located in the southwestern city of Guanghan, just outside Chengdu, was designed to house the ever-growing ...

After almost a century, Lin Huiyin, a Chinese architecture student at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) between 1924 and 1927, will be awarded a posthumous Bachelor of Architecture diploma by the ...

Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years tells the dramatic story of the transformation of Chinese architecture from a predominantly modular, timber-frame, single-story building system with ceramic tile ...