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Data Sheet of International Master’s Courses Tongji CAUP Course Code 2010193 Instructor(Title) () Prof. LI Xiangning () Department AP L D ( ) CAUP Code Other Teachers Course Name (E) Form of Teaching () CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM IN CHINA: DISCOURSE AND PRACTICES Lectures Design Studio Seminar Internship Others Total Hours 36 Hours per Week 2 Weeks 18 Semester Fall Tongji Credits 2 Brief Course Description This course tends to provide various visions for thinking and rethinking contemporary architecture and urbanism in China. Materials discussed in this course include not only architecture and urban case studies, but also cinema, art and literature works that provide a wider social and cultural context for the issues of contemporary architecture and urbanism. Perspectives from comparative literature studies, critical theory and cultural studies will provide us with deeper insights into the reality of contemporary society; therefore help us to establish filters for thinking contemporary architecture and urbanism in China. Week 1 z Course Introduction Brief Schedule and Topics z Week 2 z Movie Screening: Still Life, directed by JIA Zhangke z Week 3 z Invited Speaker: Alexander Tzonis, “Critical Regionalism” z Alexander Tzonis, Week 4 z The Critical/Post-Critical Debate and the Strategies of Young Chinese Architects z/ Week 5 z The Will to Resist: Contemporary Chinese Architecture and the Avant-Garde z Week 6 z Shanghai’s Modern Architecture and Urban Culture z Week 7 z Theming of Built Environment and Variations of Theme Parks z Week 8 z Post-modern Culture, Image, Consumption and the Commodification of City z Week 9 z “One City Nine Towns Plan of Shanghai” z Week 10 z Invited Speaker varies every term : ZHU Xiaofeng (Scenic Architecture Inc.), “Recent Works” z Week 11 z Invited Speakers varies every term : EXH, “Recent Works” z Week 12 z Architecture: Vehicle of Resistance? Related Debates z Week 13 z Movie Screening: Su Zhou River, directed by LOU Ye z W