The project China Builders creates an
interactive online theatre that invites the audience to explore and experience
the life journeys of the early-20th century architects in China. Living in the
times of dramatic cultural interactions and transformations, they are the
forefathers of modern architecture in China. Some of them were architects from
the West, bringing modern design practices to China and reshaping the urban
landscape of Chinese cities; some of them were the first-generation Chinese
architects educated in the West, initiating the study of Chinese architectural
history and founding the discipline of architecture in China. This project
turned the extraordinary careers of these individual architects into multimedia
online experiences, allowing contemporary audiences to re-examine and re-think
the establishment of the history, education, and practice of architecture in
modern China.
