{"product_id":"hutong-metabolism-zao-standardarchitecture","title":"Hutong Metabolism: ZAO\/standardarchitecture","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAbout this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeijing's hutongs—the courtyard-and-alley fabric of the old inner city—sit on a fault line between demolition and preservation. Zhang Ke's practice, ZAO\/standardarchitecture, has spent years working at the smallest possible scale within them: the makeshift structures residents themselves added to courtyards over the past 60 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe anchor project here is the Hutong Children's Library and Art Centre, which won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2016. Around it the book sets the Micro Hutong, the Co-living Courtyard and the practice's social housing work in central Beijing. The argument implicit in the title is that a city is a living organism, and that renewal at this scale is metabolism rather than surgery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKey features\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Micro Hutong Renewal series documented through photographs and drawings by the architect\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword by Farrokh Derakhshani, director of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterviews with residents and users of the hutong projects, across generations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAround 150 illustrations, full colour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow a children's library and art centre was inserted into an existing courtyard without erasing it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKenneth Frampton on small worlds built at the threshold between house and public building\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMartino Stierli on the architectural model as exhibition object, via MoMA's acquisition of a hutong model\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eZhang Ke in conversation with Nondita Correa Mehrotra on metabolism, Charles Correa and non-Western narratives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout the contributors\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEssays and conversations come from Farrokh Derakhshani, Mohsen Mostafavi, Kenneth Frampton, Martino Stierli, Nondita Correa Mehrotra, Zhang Ke, Kristin Feireiss, Hans-Jürgen Commerell and Amanda Ju. Zhang Ke founded ZAO\/standardarchitecture in Beijing in 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 170 × 245 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 288\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 9783966800150\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: ArchiTangle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublication date: September 2021\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePerfect for\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchitects working on adaptive reuse and small-scale urban insertion, readers following contemporary Chinese practice, and anyone interested in what happens to historic city fabric when it is neither frozen nor cleared.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ArchiTangle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48987920236769,"sku":"9783966800150","price":86.05,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/9783966800150.jpg?v=1787964095","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/hutong-metabolism-zao-standardarchitecture","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}