TY - CHAP
T1 - Conclusion
AU - Xue, Charlie Q. L.
AU - Ding, Guanghui
N1 - Full text of this publication does not contain sufficient affiliation information. With consent from the author(s) concerned, the Research Unit(s) information for this record is based on the existing academic department affiliation of the author(s).
PY - 2018/8/2
Y1 - 2018/8/2
N2 - This book has examined the emergence, evolution, and transformation of China’s state-owned design institutes. In the Mao era, design institutes’ mission was to serve the country by providing professional services. In the socialist market economy, design institutes were encouraged to support urbanization and accelerate economic growth. As the instrument of the state in allocating material and immaterial resources, design institutes consistently pursued the production, dissemination, and application of architectural knowledge. Playing an essential role in China’s modernization process, architects in design institutes have endeavored, with remarkable success, to perform three tasks: organizationally, to maintain the balance between collectivism and individualism; ideologically and institutionally, to mediate the seemingly irreconcilable tension between embeddedness and emancipation; and practically, to reconcile pragmatism and commitment.
AB - This book has examined the emergence, evolution, and transformation of China’s state-owned design institutes. In the Mao era, design institutes’ mission was to serve the country by providing professional services. In the socialist market economy, design institutes were encouraged to support urbanization and accelerate economic growth. As the instrument of the state in allocating material and immaterial resources, design institutes consistently pursued the production, dissemination, and application of architectural knowledge. Playing an essential role in China’s modernization process, architects in design institutes have endeavored, with remarkable success, to perform three tasks: organizationally, to maintain the balance between collectivism and individualism; ideologically and institutionally, to mediate the seemingly irreconcilable tension between embeddedness and emancipation; and practically, to reconcile pragmatism and commitment.
M3 - Foreword/preface/postscript
SN - 9781138562332
T3 - Routledge Research in Architecture
SP - 195
EP - 202
BT - A History of Design Institutes in China
PB - Routledge
ER -