Comments on: Little Paris in China http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/09/little-paris-in-china/ Architecture Tutorials 3D max Library Download AutoCAD ArchiCAD Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:17:26 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Calvin http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/09/little-paris-in-china/#comment-5185 Calvin Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:07:40 +0000 http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/09/little-paris-in-china/#comment-5185 I guess China is lost, it is about time the communist party allows the people to take part in how the country should be, could be. They should encourage debates, allow the people to voice out their concern, 2 heads is better than 1. I guess China is lost, it is about time the communist party allows the people to take part in how the country should be, could be.

They should encourage debates, allow the people to voice out their concern, 2 heads is better than 1.

]]> By: David http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/09/little-paris-in-china/#comment-5160 David Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:28:32 +0000 http://blog.miragestudio7.com/2007/09/little-paris-in-china/#comment-5160 Wow - China needs some fistfuls of Christopher Alexander! This copying trend is really awful. - To be hopeful, the US suffered this same post-colonial architechtural syndrome [although china was never /technically/ colonized] right before the beautiful outbreak of early modern architechture. Yeah - throw some culturally-specific pattern-languages and structure-preserving transformations on that country please! China has an AMAZING history and identity- That culture sinocized and pacified the mongolians for God's sake! - imagine the wonderful surprising buildings and cities that would result from pursuing an honset living process over there instead of moribund imitation of forigners! What if France copied China wholesale? - Well I guess they did that a little in the 1600s and it was pretty embarrasing- chinoisarie -- now we see the reverse - francoisarie - equally cheap and silly. I do not know why china is making itself into a cultural vassal state - do they see that this is what this is? Free market forces at the moment trend to China being a vassal state. This imitation architecture is another manifestation of the pursuit of money as an end in itself. China needs to ask, "what will make life wonderful?" - be honest about it- and the buildings will feel very familiar yet surprise us all. -David Wow – China needs some fistfuls of Christopher Alexander!

This copying trend is really awful. – To be hopeful, the US suffered this same post-colonial architechtural syndrome [although china was never /technically/ colonized] right before the beautiful outbreak of early modern architechture.

Yeah – throw some culturally-specific pattern-languages and structure-preserving transformations on that country please!

China has an AMAZING history and identity- That culture sinocized and pacified the mongolians for God’s sake! – imagine the wonderful surprising buildings and cities that would result from pursuing an honset living process over there instead of moribund imitation of forigners!

What if France copied China wholesale? – Well I guess they did that a little in the 1600s and it was pretty embarrasing- chinoisarie — now we see the reverse – francoisarie – equally cheap and silly.

I do not know why china is making itself into a cultural vassal state – do they see that this is what this is? Free market forces at the moment trend to China being a vassal state. This imitation architecture is another manifestation of the pursuit of money as an end in itself.

China needs to ask, “what will make life wonderful?” – be honest about it- and the buildings will feel very familiar yet surprise us all.

-David

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