{"product_id":"vital-architecture-atelier-li-xinggang","title":"Vital Architecture: Atelier Li Xinggang","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first-ever English-language monograph on Beijing-based Atelier Li Xinggang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFounded in 2003, Beijing-based architecture firm Atelier Li Xinggang pursues a research-based approach that connects traditional Chinese architecture with contemporary strategies. Its internationally best-known projects are the National Alpine Skiing Center and the National Sliding Center in Yangqing, both competition sites of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the collaboration with Herzog \u0026amp; de Meuron on the Bird’s Nest Olympic stadium in Beijing, as well as museums, campus buildings, and renovations of historic structures in China.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLi Xinggang’s architectural thinking draws from intensive engagement with China’s historic architecture, gardens, urban and landscape spaces. The vulnerability of the built-in relation to nature, as well as the spatial power of traditional urban structures, form the background for a position that understands architecture as protective, structuring, and emotionally influential.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVital Architecture introduces twenty-three of the firm’s realized projects through photographs, plans, drawings, and concise texts. The selection includes a wide range of typologies as well as interior and furniture designs. Introductory essays are contributed by Li Xinggang and fellow architects and educators Sakamoto Kazunari and Wilfried Wang.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Park Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52518590447836,"sku":"26W1091","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/9746\/1724\/files\/NEW-WI202510787.jpg?v=1790201213","url":"https:\/\/stoutbooks.com\/products\/vital-architecture-atelier-li-xinggang","provider":"William Stout Architectural Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}