The AR announces its partnership with the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Biennale of Architecture

摘要

At the turn of the 21st century, Shenzhen, China's precocious, over-achieving 'overnight city', had reached an unprecedented growth rate of 28 per cent, turning a south coast fishing village of 30,000 people into a mega-city of around 15 million with a GDP on a par with Berlin, Sydney or Rome. At the samerntime, its government hatched a plan for China's first major architecture and urbanism biennale. Curated by the head of MIT's architecture department, Yung Ho Chang, City, Open Door! opened in 2005 and with it, Shenzhen began taking tentative steps towards a different type of architectural culture - one of building, thinking and representing space based on ideas and people, not speed, design and construction.