HE Jingtang Architecture is a magnificent addition to Images' Master Architect series, providing a comprehensive overview of one of China's most prominent architects. This book showcases 52 specially selected projects classified into six categories: Collective Memory, Regional Spirit, City Life, University Campus, Urban Block, and Transformation & Regeneration. As the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, HE Jingtang insists on five design principles - holism, sustainability, regionality, culture, and times. Richly illustrated throughout, this book provides a vivid articulation of this unparalleled practitioner's design philosophy and creativity. AUTHOR: HE Jingtang (b. 1938), Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is a prominent Chinese architect. A key player in architecture design for more than five decades, HE is well known for his award-winning projects, such as wrestling and badminton venues built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Chinese Pavilion for Expo 2010, the new campus of the University of Macau, and the Dachang Muslim Cultural Center in 2016, among others. HE participated in the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture, with an exhibit entitled "PLACE, CULTURE, TIME. HE Jingtang: Design for Drastically Changing China". SELLING POINTS: Collects the lifetime achievement works and architecture design concepts of HE Jingtang Introduces readers to this architect's ideological world, and celebrates the charm of modern oriental architecture culture Part of the successful Master Architect series 800 colour, 200 b/w images

Author Biography

HE Jingtang (b. 1938), Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is a prominent Chinese architect. A key player in architecture design for more than five decades, HE is well known for his award-winning projects, such as wrestling and badminton venues built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Chinese Pavilion for Expo 2010, the new campus for the University of Macau, and the Dachang Muslim Cultural Center in 2016, among others. HE participated in the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture, with an exhibit entitled 'PLACE, CULTURE, TIME. HE Jingtang: Design for Drastically Changing China'.