Contemporary Green Buildings in China

The German-Chinese forum Urban Academy focuses on sustainable urbandevelopment as well as on the theme of World Expo 2010: Better City -Better Life. Eco-efficiency in building services, engineering, traffic,water and energy, social transformations and cultural industry stimulatedby the city of Shanghai are the main issues of these discussions. Here thedistinguished authors consider examples of Chinese best practice ofecological building and construction and leading Chinese architects presenttheir position on the options for sustainable urban development. This bookshowcases 40 projects, among them works from Steven Holl, Atelier Deshaus,StandarArchitecture, Amateur Architecture Studio, Urbanus, Mario Cucinellaand Liu Jiakun, accompanied by such questions as energy-efficient design,planning and construction.