Hybrid building and hybrid practitioner : understanding and transforming Chinese rural villages through architecture of social engagement

The emerging problems from the rapid rural urbanization under the top-down ideologies and approaches in contemporary China have challenged the very fundamental definitions of architecture and architects originated from the Western discourse. It is within this broader context that this thesis started...

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Main Author: Ren, Xiang
Other Authors: Blundell Jones, Peter ; Kossak, Florian
Published: University of Sheffield 2017
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.729493