Fuse New into Past: Empowerment and Regeneration of Rural Life, 2018-2024/存故以新：乡村赋能与新生

"Target Audience: Architects and Designers, Urban Planners and Rural Development Policymakers and Officials, Educators and Students

适读人群 :建筑师和设计师,城市规划师和乡村发展策制定者和官员,教育工作者和学生

Over the past 40 years, cities in China have undergone rapid urbanization and industrialization, while rural areas are increasingly falling into decline due to the lack of economic development, with problems such as hollowed-out villages, aging populations, and weak material foundations more and more serious. Compared to cities, rural areas constitute a more complex ecosystem, and at this time, architects should not just be passive, single-faceted, one-way problem solvers, but rather proactive, composite, and multi-directional organizers and guides-stepping outside the scope of architectural design to combine it with specific social contexts and policies, integrate upstream and downstream resources, and establish a complete project operation process from planning and strategy to construction, operation, and dissemination. ""Fuse New into Past: Empowerment and Regeneration of Rural Life"" sorts through multiple architectural cases, summarizing the observations, reflections, and coping strategies of Architect Meng Fanhao in his rural practices across multiple provinces and cities in China in recent years, and interpreting how to promote paradigmatic innovation in rural regeneration through design, thereby empowering the vision of building beautiful Chinese villages.

近40年来,中国城市经历了疾速的城镇化与工业化发展,中国乡村因经济发展的缺失而日益走向衰落,空心村、老龄化、物质基础薄弱等弊病日益显现。相比城市,乡村是一个更复杂的生态体,而此时建筑师的身份不应该只是被动的、单一的、单向的问题解决者,而是主动的、复合的、多向的组织引导者--跳出建筑设计范畴,与特定社会语境和政策相结合,整合上下游资源,架构一整套从规划策划到建设运营传播的项目运作流程。

《存故以新:乡村赋能与新生》通过多个建筑案例,梳理建筑师孟凡浩近年来在中国多省市乡村实践中的观察思考和应对策略,阐释如何以设计推动乡村振兴的范式创新,从而赋能中国美丽乡村的愿景建设。

MENG FANHAO

Co-Founder and Chief Architect of line+ studio, Mr. Meng holds a Master's Degree from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University. He is a Class-1 Registered Architect in China, a Professor-Level Senior Engineer, and a Chartered Architect with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). He serves as an Endowed Professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, a Master's Thesis Supervisor at Nanjing University, and a Design Mentor at Zhejiang University.

Mr. Meng is the recipient of numerous prestigious international awards, including the RIBA International Award for Excellence in Architecture, the Gold ARCASIA Award for Architecture, Architectural Record's Design Vanguard, the Youth Architect Award and First Prize in Architectural Design from the Architectural Society of China, the Silk Road Chinese Rural Literature and Art Gold Award, the Dezeen Award Winner, the iF Design Award Gold Winner, and the Highly Commended Award at the WAACA WA Design Experiment. In 2021, Mr. Meng was the sole architect from mainland China invited to participate in the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2023, he represented contemporary Chinese architecture at the ""Building Contemporary China"" exhibition in London, UK.