A survey of contemporary Chinese architecture features the work of both foreign and local Chinese architects, covering residential housing, public buildings, office towers, designs for the Beijing Olympic Games, and adaptive reuses of older city buildings.
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Xing Ruan is a professor of architecture at the University of New South Wales and was previously Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney. He was born in China and graduated with a degree in Architecture from the Southeast University in Nanjing. He has practiced and taught in China, New Zealand and Australia. He has been published widely on architecture, anthropology, architectural education and on contemporary Chinese architecture.
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