Title: Re-imagining Architecture,De-stabilising Realities——A Review of the Architectural Works and Urban Design Projects of BAU International
Abstract: This essay reviews the works of BAU International,an Australian-Chinese firm of architecture, urban design,planning and landscape practice which is based in Shanghai and Melboume.It reflects on the office's research-based design approach towards envisioning the different scales and aspects of the built environment Four projects are reviewed in this essay highlighting key issues which the office puts forward to the broader discourses of architecture and planning of contemporary urbanity: the quest for new architectural complexities that address the culture of congestion of our urbanized world,the formulation of environmentally sustainable design at the level of programmatic and spatial ordering of built form, and the urgent need to resist a formulation of architecture as an image-making machine.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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