Family tree of Chinggis Khan -- Introduction. Mongol lords, Chinese architecture, visions of empire -- Wall-enclosed spaces -- The century before the Mongol century -- Official Yuan construction -- ...

Introduction: The borders problem -- Chinese architecture before China -- Han -- Architecture before reunification -- Seeing the sixth century as the seventh and eighth -- Tang internationalism -- ...

Throughout its 46-year history, architecture’s most prestigious prize has often been won by icon-builders: the apparent lone geniuses who imprint their visions, signature-like, on the world. It is ...

Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years tells the dramatic story of the transformation of Chinese architecture from a predominantly modular, timber-frame, single-story building system with ceramic tile ...

While Mao Zedong was in power in China, the country erected many thousands of equally harsh and indifferent communist buildings. A show at CCA explores this history. (Sandra Larochelle/Courtesy CCA) ...