Shanghai - Jay Pridmore

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Title
Shanghai - the architecture of China's great urban center
Author
Jay Pridmore
format
Hardback
Publisher
Abrams
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20080425

Shanghai is China's largest city, comparable to New York or Tokyo, and in recent decades it has experienced a building boom on a scale that is simply unprecedented in world history. Shanghai now has more skyscrapers than New York City.

Pridmore tells a story that combines art, technology, capitalism, and Communism in vivid prose backed up by extensive reporting and illustrated with superb photographs. After surveying Shanghai's traditional Chinese and colonial architecture, Pridmore turns to the amazing city of today. In the last decades of the 20th century, Shanghai was seen as the engine of modernization in China. Leading architects from around the world, including Norman Foster, Paul Andrew, Adrian Smith, Kohn Petersen Fox, John Portman, Chang Yung Ho, Ma Qingyun, and Benjamin Wood were lured into competitions to design vastly ambitious projects, and towering buildings in a riot of different styles sprung up before planners could even map their neighborhoods. Out of this ferment of creative growth came the most significant new city of the 21st century.

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Jay Pridmore is an architectural historian and the author of numerous books, especially about the architecture of Chicago. Among them is Abrams' Chicago Architecture and Design, now in its second edition. He divides his time between Chicago and Rome.








Type
BOOK
Keyword Index
Architecture - China - Shanghai - History - 20th century.|Architecture - China - Shanghai - History - 21st century.|Shanghai (China) - Buildings, structures, etc.
Country of Publication
New York (State)
Number of Pages
159

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