Architectural Narrative in Post-Bubble China
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Preface All great bubbles begin with compelling economic growth booms. The Roaring Twenties bubble began with a boom based on mass production in US. Japanese asset price bubble started out as the post-war economic miracle that was boosted by ground-breaking advancement in electronic technology. The legitimate economic growth boom ended up developing into bubbles that burst disastrously. The China economy is no exception to this paradigm, began with a boom based on economic reform and rapid urbanization in thirty years, while eventually degenerate into a problem of reckless construction of empty cities. Conceivably, China would face a great depression when its bubble bursts. Thesis Statement Architectural Narrative in Post-Bubble China is partly fictional; partly authentic that aims to envision a dystopian-like future in order to raise awareness of real-world issues regarding society, city, technology, economics and politics. Using China as a backdrop, the project uses a narrative approach as a constructive format to describe a series of events happening in the past, present and future. The proposal explores the relationship between these economy-driven events and the changing form of architecture chronically. Through setting up a scenario in China after the crash, an unexpected form of architecture would be evolved that aims not only to solve certain problems, but also to critique the contemporary urbanization in China through irony and sarcasm.
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