MAD Dinner: A Monograph on the Beijing-Based Mad Office
MAD Dinner: A Monograph on the Beijing-Based Mad Office
$49.95
MAD. McGetrick, Brendan
ed. Flexi. Barcelona, 2008
Book ID: 78031
Positions the work of Beijing-based architects MAD in a universal context. For example, a proposal for Beijing 2050 questions the modernist notion of utopia and New China's relationship with its natural environment. Another case study is an 800 meter high tower doubled over itself illustrating the power of city marketing. Divided thematically, the book looks at MAD's designs to illustrate the freedoms and limitations of the world s fastest growing urbanization. Chinese/English.
520 pp., color and B&W illus.
