China   Used to visiting architecture exhibitions in which buildings are interpreted through plans, drawings and models, the organizers of this event – CIPEA, China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture – tried to make a change and show building

Liu Jiakun   China   The site chosen to build this community center is a plot with a gentle slope towards the lake, to which it is adjoined at the point where it forks. The building makes up for its large size (10,000 square meters) with a strategy of fragmentation into

Liu Jiakun   China   When, after a period of meditation and reflection, prince Siddhartha decided to extend his doctrine to the rest of humankind, he preached his first sermon in Deer Park near Benares. In Chinese, the word ‘luye’ literally means ‘a field with deer’ and,