Ideale Stadt - Reale Projekte : Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner in China / Ideal City -- Real Projects

Nerdinger, Winfried ; editor : [ Von Gerkan, Marg und Partner ]

Published by Hatje Cantz (2005), Ostfildern-Ruit [Germany], 2005

About this Item

31x22cm, 177 pp, Weighs 1.3 kilos. Bilingual parallel German-English text. Catalogue of the exhibition held at Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität München, June 30-Oct. 2 , 2005. Contents: Meinhard von Gerkan im Gespräch mit Xu Xiaofei von der Tsinghua Universität Peking. Meinhard von Gerkan in conservation with Xu Xiaofei of Tsinghua University Beijing -- Stadt und Architektur in China im Wandel zwischen gestern and heute / Zheng Shiling. Chinese city and architecture in transformation between yesterday and tomorrow / Zheng Shiling -- Die europäische Stadt : die Idealstadt im Spiegel der Zeit / Bernd Pastuschka. The European city : the ideal city as reflected through the ages / Bernd Pastuschka -- Lingang New City : eine Grossstad im Chinesischen Meer / Meinhard von Gerkan. Lingang New City : a metropolis in the East China Sea / Meinhard von Gerkan -- Stadtbausteine. Urban modules. ["Within a period of six years, the Hamburg firm of von Gerkan, Marg and Partner - gmp, for short - has completed over one hundred designs for clients in China, five of which are already finished and twenty of which are currently under construction or in the planning stage. Preeminent is Lingang New City, a planned harbour city for 800,000 inhabitants close to Shanghai. Conceived by gmp in the tradition of ideal cities, the neighbourhoods were arranged in concentric rings around an artificial circular lake. Urban elements and spaces fulfil different communal functions - ranging from a city archive to theatres and churches to convention centres - while giving the plans an identity" - from rear cover].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ideale Stadt - Reale Projekte : Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner in China / Ideal City -- Real Projects
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz (2005), Ostfildern-Ruit [Germany]
• Publication Date: 2005
• Binding: orig. boards
• Illustrator: Textual illustrations.
• Condition: Minor wear. VG.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Chinese Architecture