Videos: 16 Top Architects Discuss China's "Museum Boom"

Videos: 16 Top Architects Discuss China's "Museum Boom"

Currently on display at the Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin, "ZÀI XĪNG TǓ MÙ: Sixteen Chinese Museums, Fifteen Chinese Architects," takes an in-depth look at China’s recent museum boom and its effects on the socio-political and cultural landscape of modern China.

As part of the exhibition, filmmaker Moritz Dirks sat down with 16 of the top architects working in China today, including Wang Shu, Dang Qun of MAD Architects, and Zhu Pei of Studio Pei-Zhu, to discuss the challenges of creating cultural spaces that relate both to the global, digital, urban contexts of the contemporary world and to the strong heritage and identity of Chinese culture.

Continue after the break for the 16 interviews.

Zài Xīng Tǔ Mù. Sixteen Chinese Museums, Fifteen Chinese Architects

More information about the Aedes Architecture Forum can be found here.

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Cite: Patrick Lynch. "Videos: 16 Top Architects Discuss China's "Museum Boom"" 26 Sep 2016. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/796105/videos-16-top-chinese-architects-discuss-chinas-museum-boom> ISSN 0719-8884

Ordos Art & City Museum / MAD Architects. Image © Shu He

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