Word: architecturee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Brown certainly does not help matters with his terse preface reassuring me that “All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate.”
Yu, a professor of landscape architecture at Peking University, argues that China's current approach to urban development, with its emphasis on size and status over originality, is as environmentally reckless as it is visually dull. With farmland and forests disappearing and water running out, Yu says, cities can't...
Despite his success as a designer, Yu sees himself primarily as an educator. In 2003 he founded?and personally funded?China's first graduate program in landscape architecture (at Peking University) and he serves as its dean. He writes prolifically and, again at his own expense, has mailed copies of...
In Shenyang, when an architecture school moved to the suburbs, Yu designed its campus to incorporate the rice paddies of the farms it had displaced. The rice became both a decorative element and a kind of literal food for thought?a reminder that landscaping needn't be expensive and that...
University President Lawrence H. Summers suggested on his India trip that developing nations should invest their capital reserves more aggressively, and proposed the formation of an international fund to manage those investments.Emerging markets like India and China are amassing significant reserves, but by holding onto their funds rather than investing...