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  • Five leading Chinese media—Southern Weekly, Oriental Morning Post, Domus China, Urban China and Art World—are invited as editors of the exhibition catalogue's supplement, offering a multifaceted interpretation of Ordinary Architecture.

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  • WangDi’s photos of red Beijing
         红色年代成长的王迪所拍摄的红色北京。这些北京的普通建筑具有鲜明的时代印迹，特殊的年代和语境引起了西方观众的极大好奇心。
        An audience is concentrating on WangDi’s photos of red Beijing,who grew up in the red age. The scene of ordinary architecture of Beijing arouses great curiosity on the 11th International Architecture Exhibition.

  • The profile of TONG Ming and Liu Kecheng’s works
     刘克成与童明的作品侧影。这将演绎怎样的一座普通建筑呢？请拭目以待。
    The profile of TONG Ming and Liu Kecheng’s works. What is the meaning of this ordinary building interpret?  It will be announced in future.

  • Red Housing/Beijing Streets
    I was born in Beijing in 1963 and I seldom left the city in the following 40 years. No I didn’t manage to catch a glimpse of the ‘old Beijing’ that people have been talking about. The first round of urban refurbishment in the 1950s had turned things like pailou (decorated archway) and the [...]

  • Rebirth Brick
    This is not an installation work designed for the exhibition, but a material manufacturing project that is being actively promoted for reconstruction of the disaster-struck area.
    The condition of the area bears the following features:
    1. The post-earthquake cleaning up of the debris is an expensive and exhausting undertaking.
    After sterilization, the rubbles can be recycled.
    2. Even though [...]

  • Paper-brick House
    The rapid urbanisation of contemporary China has produced a myriad of architectural and construction projects in a short time, thus putting people’s life and the quality control of cities, buildings and the environment to test. Here the design quality and the construction quality are key issues. The devastating earthquake in Sichuan province earlier this year [...]

  • MURMUR
    Murmur is our response to ‘negotiation’, the theme of the Chinese Pavilion 2008. It’s suggestive of the whispering of various body-installation-architecture objects in the Virgin Garden of Venice, where a new type of public sphere is formed through the aggregation of tiny voices.
    Using steel as the main material, Murmur consists of several empty houses that [...]
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