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Wildly futuristic designs and [a] sneak peek at Asia s exciting new skylines... A compelling look at urban planning, culture, art, and iconography, through the eyes of China s most stimulating young architects. --URBANE
From winning designs for studios and differences in design permits and processes to how architectural ideas are conveyed, MAD DINNER is a unique, outstanding contribution to the study of world design and architecture and is a top pick for either art or Chinese cultural studies libraries. --The Midwest Book Review
A marvellously interdisciplinary book. --PingMag
Highly recommended. --Library Bookwatch
They are China's wild young architects and they call themselves MAD.
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Written in the form of imaginary dinner conversations with real people in and beyond Beijing, including a taxi driver and hairdresser, as well as MAD architects, the result is a kaleidoscopic, vibrantly dramatic slice of how iconoclastic architecture is actively reflecting and shaping a new society. Consider this book a tasty and unpredictable intellectual banquet. --The Christian Science Monitor
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MAD DINNER is the first book by MAD office, Beijing-based architectural office. Organized around the metaphor of dinner table conversation, the book is a collection of ideas and opinions about topics ranging from politics to ecology to fame to the future. The dinner's guests include people from all levels of Chinese society: a government official, hairdresser, migrant laborers, a doctor, a taxi driver, and a developer are all brought together to offer their views in an atmosphere of openness and exchange. MAD's work is embedded in a series of extended conversations with international advisors, including the Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, British writer Ian Buruma, filmmakers Zhang Yimou and Jia Zhangke, and the artist Ai Weiwei. The conversations work in tandem with MAD's proposals to reveal their essential account of the architect's practice and experience inside of China, the fastest urbanization in world history.
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Wildly futuristic designs and [a] sneak peek at Asia s exciting new skylines... A compelling look at urban planning, culture, art, and iconography, through the eyes of China s most stimulating young architects. --URBANE
From winning designs for studios and differences in design permits and processes to how architectural ideas are conveyed, MAD DINNER is a unique, outstanding contribution to the study of world design and architecture and is a top pick for either art or Chinese cultural studies libraries. --The Midwest Book Review
A marvellously interdisciplinary book. --PingMag
Highly recommended. --Library Bookwatch
They are China's wild young architects and they call themselves MAD.
--Arc Space
Written in the form of imaginary dinner conversations with real people in and beyond Beijing, including a taxi driver and hairdresser, as well as MAD architects, the result is a kaleidoscopic, vibrantly dramatic slice of how iconoclastic architecture is actively reflecting and shaping a new society. Consider this book a tasty and unpredictable intellectual banquet. --The Christian Science Monitor
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MAD DINNER is the first book by MAD office, Beijing-based architectural office. Organized around the metaphor of dinner table conversation, the book is a collection of ideas and opinions about topics ranging from politics to ecology to fame to the future. The dinner's guests include people from all levels of Chinese society: a government official, hairdresser, migrant laborers, a doctor, a taxi driver, and a developer are all brought together to offer their views in an atmosphere of openness and exchange. MAD's work is embedded in a series of extended conversations with international advisors, including the Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, British writer Ian Buruma, filmmakers Zhang Yimou and Jia Zhangke, and the artist Ai Weiwei. The conversations work in tandem with MAD's proposals to reveal their essential account of the architect's practice and experience inside of China, the fastest urbanization in world history.
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