Review: Designing Reform: Architecture in the People’s Republic of China, 1970–1992

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Book Review| March 01 2023 Review: Designing Reform: Architecture in the People’s Republic of China, 1970–1992 Cole Roskam Designing Reform: Architecture in the People’s Republic of China, 1970–1992 New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021, 296 pp., 86 b/w illus. $50 (cloth), ISBN 9780300235951 Guanghui Ding Guanghui Ding Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2023) 82 (1): 94–96. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.1.94 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Guanghui Ding; Review: Designing Reform: Architecture in the People’s Republic of China, 1970–1992. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2023; 82 (1): 94–96. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.1.94 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search When President Richard Nixon visited the People’s Republic of China in 1972, he could not have imagined the extent to which this historic trip would reshape the relationship between the United States and China, opening the door for the mobility of people and the exchange of goods, ideas, capital, and knowledge, and leading to tremendous changes in Chinese society, economy, and culture. Cole Roskam’s new book, Designing Reform: Architecture in the People’s Republic of China, 1970–1992, is a timely contribution, helping us grasp how the shift in Sino–U.S. relations facilitated architectural engagement between the two countries and reshaped architectural production in China during this period. Roskam’s purpose is to affirm architecture as a physical and visible embodiment of reform interventions in Chinese politics, culture, and professional institutions. For him, architecture in this historic period constitutes a landscape of transformations. This perspective counters the stereotype that condemns Chinese architectural production... You do not currently have access to this content.