Constructing Critically: Prefabricated Systems with Soul

摘要

Wooden buildings in the gardens of Suzhou, log farmhouses in Yunnan, post-and-tie dwellings in Sichuan, and quickly assembled temporary shelters made of bamboo in contemporary Hong Kong -there are plenty of vernacular building types and products in China. However, in the minds of Chinese practitioners of the past three decades they are either too perfect to evolve, or too old to save.China has held the record for the fastest-developing major country for years. Construction is going on at an unprecedented pace. Unfortunately, while using half of the world's concrete and a third of the world's steel, the design industry has not been contributing much on building integration, system invention or the definition of new issues.