TY - GEN
T1 - ‘Applicability, Economy and Attention to Beauty with Limitations’: The Origin and Value of a 1950s Chinese Architectural Design Strategic Guideline.
AU - Chen, Xiaohan
AU - Dong, Yiping
AU - Carlin, Peta
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In 2015, in response to global warming and the diminishment of resources, China proposed a new design strategic guideline “Applicability, Economy, Green and Beauty,” based on an earlier model. In 1956, seven years after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) the Central People’s Government had formally established an architectural design strategic guideline, “Applicability, Economy and Attention to Beauty with Limitations” (AEB) which set out the goals and guided the direction of architecture design in response to its new national identity. The official newspaper, People’s Daily, established by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) provided the main platform for the promotion of AEB, during an era when specialist architectural publications were largely non-existent. Significantly, until 2015, AEB continued to function as the main strategic guideline; it was foundational to Chinese architecture design for over half a century.
AB - In 2015, in response to global warming and the diminishment of resources, China proposed a new design strategic guideline “Applicability, Economy, Green and Beauty,” based on an earlier model. In 1956, seven years after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) the Central People’s Government had formally established an architectural design strategic guideline, “Applicability, Economy and Attention to Beauty with Limitations” (AEB) which set out the goals and guided the direction of architecture design in response to its new national identity. The official newspaper, People’s Daily, established by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) provided the main platform for the promotion of AEB, during an era when specialist architectural publications were largely non-existent. Significantly, until 2015, AEB continued to function as the main strategic guideline; it was foundational to Chinese architecture design for over half a century.
M3 - Conference Proceeding
SP - 64
EP - 74
BT - Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand: 37, What If? What Next? Speculations on History’s Futures
A2 - Hislop, Kate
A2 - Lewi, Hannah
CY - Perth
T2 - The 37th Society of Architectural Historians Australia & New Zealand Conference
Y2 - 18 November 2020 through 25 November 2020
ER -