This book is the latest contribution to the debate on contemporary

Chinese avant-garde architecture, introducing the changes and

tendencies that have led to the rise of China's new generation of

architects during the most eye-catching decade from 1999 to 2009.

The Chinese city is revealed through four 'itineraries' and fifty

projects: 'Live Architecture' refers to recent projects or those still

underway; 'Digital Architecture' presents cities of the future using

digital design; 'Video Architecture' shows buildings or cities using

computer-generated images; and 'Sound Art' includes projects

by architects and artists working closely together, giving a varied

perspective which allows a better understanding of today's China.

This lavishly illustrated book is based on the exhibition Heart-Made

The Cutting-Edge of Chinese Contemporary Architecture organized

for europalia.china by Fang Zhenning, a well-known Chinese

architecture and art critic, and Christophe Pourtois and Marcelle

Rabinowicz, the curators from the CIVA (International Centre for

Urbanism, Architecture and Landscape) in Belgium.