The 2012 Pritzker Prize winner is Shu Wang from China. As a Chinese, I am very excited, but not at all surprised, as the whole design world needs Chinese spirit in the 21st century. My idea comes after listening to a lecture from a famous landscape architect-George Hargreaves in 2011. The reason is (1) Western [...]
The above chart, from the Museum of London, shows the pattern of climate change in the past 500,000 years. It does not have a vertical scale but I think mean temperatures were about ten degrees centigrade cooler at the Last Glacial Maximum (the last dip before the 50,000 years of global warming before the present). [...]
It is said that the idea of ‘The Garden of 10,000 Bridges’ comes from the theory of Taoists concept of ancient China. Who can give some explanation please? Thank you very much!
On my first day in a landscape architecture office the kind lady at the drawing board behind mine asked ‘What have you done before?’. I told her, modestly, ‘degrees in philosophy and landscape architecture’. ‘Ah’, she said, wisely and with a soft Scots accent,’an apprenticeship in the post office would more use – the main [...]
Extremely rapid development is not generally compatible with far-sighted urban planning, but it does offer surprising advantages when it comes to retro-planning. The city of Zhuhai was one of China’s first Special Economic Zones, called into being by Deng Xiao Ping in the 1980’s. These were areas strategically chosen for accelerated development, Zhuhai because of [...]