{"product_id":"vital-architecture-atelier-li-xinggang","title":"Vital Architecture: Atelier Li Xinggang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first-ever English-language monograph on Beijing-based Atelier Li Xinggang.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 \u0026 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\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVital Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e 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":"None","offers":[{"title":"Couverture souple","offer_id":46803633275090,"sku":"9783038604914","price":78.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_d969af5f-c70a-4f23-aa7e-de1262de560a.jpg?v=1773659195","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/fr\/products\/vital-architecture-atelier-li-xinggang","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}