作者：BiancaBosker
出版社：UniversityofHawaiiPress
副标题：ArchitecturalMimicryinContemporaryChina
出版年：2013-1-31
页数：208
定价：USD30.00
装帧：Paperback
丛书：SpatialHabitus：MakingandMeaninginAsia’sArchitecture
ISBN：9780824836061
内容简介
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A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elysées Square in Hangzhou. A Chengdu residential complex for 200,000 recreates Dorchester, England. An ersatz Queen’s Guard patrols Shanghai’s Thames Town, where pubs and statues of Winston Churchill abound. Gleaming replicas of the White House dot Chinese cities from Fuyang to Shenzhen. These examples are but a sampling of China’s most popular and startling architectural movement: the construction of monumental themed communities that replicate towns and cities in the West.
Original Copies presents the first definitive chronicle of this remarkable phenomenon in which entire townships appear to have been airlifted from their historic and geographic foundations in Europe and the Americas, and spot-welded to Chinese cities. These copycat constructions are not theme parks but thriving communities where Chinese families raise children, cook dinners, and simulate the experiences of a pseudo-Orange County or Oxford.
In recounting the untold and evolving story of China’s predilection for replicating the greatest architectural hits of the West, Bianca Bosker explores what this unprecedented experiment in “duplitecture” implies for the social, political, architectural, and commercial landscape of contemporary China. With her lively, authoritative narrative, the author shows us how, in subtle but important ways, these homes and public spaces shape the behavior of their residents, as they reflect the achievements, dreams, and anxieties of those who inhabit them, as well as those of their developers and designers.
From Chinese philosophical perspectives on copying to twenty-first century market forces, Bosker details the factors giving rise to China’s new breed of building. Her analysis draws on insights from the world’s leading architects, critics and city planners, and on interviews with the residents of these developments.
作者简介
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Bianca Bosker is a graduate of Princeton University. She lives in New York and is senior tech editor at the Huffington Post.
评论 ······
你永远叫不醒一个装睡的人…大部分中国建筑师都在复制粘帖中赚钱。如果此书能在四五章里分析得再彻底一点就好了，当然这实在太难。这本书算是记者式的观察？
也就是個普通西方記者看中國的水平。
大段大段的隔靴搔痒。某些细节（比如出国旅游那里）直接开始说胡话了
很多一手调查资料，是最大的贡献也是最大的不足。读起来感觉是报告文学，结果一查还真是报刊编辑
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