Importing American architecture to China: The practice of John Portman & Associates in Shanghai

Journal of Architecture

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 317-333

  Xue, Charlie Qiuli ^a   Li, Yingchun ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 65849126229     PISSN: 13602365     EISSN: 14664410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13602360802214786     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. On the importation of foreign architecture to China, see Charlie Q. L. Xue, Building a Revolution: Chinese architecture since 1980 (Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2006)
2. and Jeffery W. Cody, Exporting American Architecture: 1870-2000 (London, Routledge, 2003).
3. Leo O. Lee, Shanghai Modern - the flowering of a new urban culture in China: 1930-1945 (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1999).
4. Charlie Q. L. Xue, The Global Impact: overseas architectural design in China (Shanghai, Tongji University Press, 2006)
5. and Charlie Q. L. Xue, World Architecture in China, Importation and Adaptation 1978-2008 (Hong Kong, Joint Publication Ltd., 2008).
6. Charlie Q. L. Xue and Peng Nu, 'An alternative modernity and metropolitan fantasy, an analysis of space of architecture by Japanese architects since 1980', Time + Architecture, No.6 (2006), pp. 124-9.
7. On the tradition of Art Deco in Shanghai, see Xu Yihong, Art Deco: The relationship of Chinese and western modern architecture (Southeast China University Press, 2006).
8. For the career of John Portman, see Paolo Riani, Paul Goldberger and John Portman, John Portman, l'Arcaeditionl (1990);
9. John Portman and Jonathan Barnett, The architect as developer (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1976);
10. and John Portman and Associates: selected and current works, ed., Steve Womersley (Mulgrave, Vic, Images Publishing, 2002).
11. Interview with Walter N. Jackson, August 27th, 2006. And also from The Document Office of the Communist Party of China, Chronology of Deng Xiaoping (Document Press of the Communist Party of China, 2004).
12. Charlie Q. L. Xue, 'The ten celebrities in Hong Kong and Shanghai', World Architecture, No.9 (Beijing,2000), pp. 77-80.
13. Saskia Sassen, Cities in a World Economy (Thousand Oaks, California, Pine Forge Press, 1994).
14. In the design of the Bund Centre, big differences occurred between the designer and client. In our interview with Mr. Walter N. Jackson, he did not even acknowledge that the Bund Centre was designed by John Portman & Associates.
15. 'Connecting with the international track' is a slogan adopted in the new millennium. It reflects the Chinese government's determination to join the global village. Working methods and urban architecture are expected to refer to 'advanced' Western models.
16. Leo O. Lee, Shanghai Modern - the flowering of a new urban culture in China: 1930-1945, op. cit., pp. 53-4.
17. John Portman & Associates, Tomorrow Square, Time + Architecture, No.3 (2002), pp. 54-7.
18. Ibid., remarks by Jack Portman.
19. The selection process for Tomorrow Square was revealed by one of the jury members to the authors: e-mail of January, 2007.
20. Interview with Walter N. Jackson, op. cit.
21. Charlie Q. L. Xue and Peng Nu, 'An alternative modernity and metropolitan fantasy, an analysis of space of architecture by Japanese architects since 1980', op. cit., pp. 124-9.
22. Professor Zheng Shiling, speaking at the seminar on 'The Global Impact - overseas architectural design in China', Tongji University, December 25th, 2006.
23. This principal meaning of 'modern' is taken from the online Oxford English Dictionary, http://dictionary. oed.com/cgi/entry/00313097?single=1&query-type = word&queryword=modern&first=1&max-to-show=10. The Chinese interpretation is from the Ci hai (Sea of Glossary), Shanghai ci shu chu ban she (Shanghai Press of Dictionary, 2000).
24. According to research into early Shanghai, imported buildings first appeared in simple British colonial style: for example, the verandah form in the late nineteenth century. The more majestic American Art Deco buildings replaced the old style in the 1930s. See Chang Qing, ed., Origin of a Metropolis - a study on the Bund Section of Nanjing Road in Shanghai (Shanghai, Tongji University Press, 2005);
25. Lynn Pan, Shanghai Style (Hong Kong, Joint Publication Ltd., 2008);
26. and Leo O. Lee, Shanghai Modern, op. cit.