Abstract
AbstractThis chapter discusses two Chinese built cases in the situation of Belt and Road Initiative. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has radically increased its development aids, cooperation, and investment with less developed countries. These development programs comprise of many architectural projects. The aim of this China’s international development program is to strengthen bilateral relations and cooperate in mutual economic development projects. BRI is China’s latest form of international economic cooperation. Pakistan has close ties with China and become an important partner of China in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In such a development scheme, the designers of architectural projects are mainly from Chinese state-owned design institutes. In a few cases, they collaborates with local architectural firms. This chapter investigates the cross-cultural architecture exchanges between China and Pakistan. It has established a “contact zone” between two state expertise, where new eclectic architecture evolved by a collaboration of complex actors from both sides. The process finds a “third space” that syncretizes the similar architectural features of both cultures in a modern way. This study challenges the western way of globalization and broaden our epistemological understanding of south-south architecture exchanges.
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