Author: David Wang
5 article(s) found by this author.
The New Virtualism: Beijing, the 2008 Olympic Games, and a new style for world architecture
Fall 2008
SOMETHING SIGNIFICANT IS HAPPENING IN BEIJING. It
has to do with proclaiming a new style of world architecture at the
dawn of the twenty-first century. I call it "The New Virtualism,"
and because there are now enough of these buildings in existenc...
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Beijing, Virtualism, China
Meditations on a strip mall
Spring 2008
Why has architecture become an exercise in stage set building?
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Malls
Review :: Classic Houses of Seattle
Summer 2006
When something is regarded as "a classic," it is usually because the object has achieved the ability to express the cultural spirit of an era. Objects having this status are often considered as art, or at least as cultural symbols. And so we have cla...
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Seattle
Web Extra :: A new kind of chop suey: China's contemporary urban architecture
Summer 2006
Visiting China's cities in recent years is like watching time-lapse photography. Consider: the city of Shanghai had one skyscraper in 1985; now they are legion. In 1988, I looked from Shanghai's famous Peace Hotel on the Bund to the far side of the H...
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: China
Ideas, Buildings, and Mirrors
Winter 2004
Torn between respect for its natural surroundings and a desire for
cosmopolitan sophistication, Spokane lends a unique perspective to the
notion that works of architecture reflect what a community thinks of
itself.
Categories: Architecture and design, WSU Spokane
Tags: Education, Teaching