Featuring hundreds of photographs and extensive commentary, this modern architecture and design book showcases the dynamic structures of today's China.

by China's booming cities are evolving at a dizzying speed, and her new wealth has created a dynamic environment for architecture and construction. New China Architecture documents the spectacular transformation modern China has undergone in recent decades as the heady push to prosperity has inspired architects from China and around the globe to produce striking new designs.

Award-winning professor of architecture, Xing Ruan, covers the entire range of China's most captivating new building projects—from Shanghai skyscrapers to public buildings in Beijing and Guangzhou, and from cutting-edge private homes and gleaming new airports to theaters and universities throughout China. Over the past few decades, architects, urban planners, and design aficionados everywhere have watched China's spectacular urban transformation with awe, and New China Architecture offers them a closer look at the country's most innovative new buildings.

Xing Ruan is a professor of architecture at the University of New South Wales and was previously Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney. He was born in China and graduated with a degree in Architecture from the Southeast University in Nanjing. He has practiced and taught in China, New Zealand and Australia. He has been published widely on architecture, anthropology, architectural education and on contemporary Chinese architecture.

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"The illustrated New China Architecture surveys China's contemporary architectural highlights, such as the incredible "Watercube" - the swimming center being built in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics." —Conde Nast Traveller

"A diverse parade of designs is featured throughout." —Library Journal

"Xing Ruan unpacks the conceptual and historical complexities that are entangled within modern Chinese architectural and discusses the lack of attention it has received from the West." —Architecture Australia

"The West has largely ignored Chinese architecture for almost a century. Xing Ruan's New China Architecture shows why it now demands a discourse of its own." —Business Times (Singapore)

"New China Architecture is the most professional one of all." —The Nation (Thailand)

"[Xing Ruan writes] succinctly, but with sufficient passion and detail to enable the reader to appreciate the architecture in the book without losing sight of the broader picture, including the historical dimension. […] The critical tone of Xing Ruan's introduction is continued in the project descriptions which are exemplary—extensive, personalized and critical. […]This is a fine book." —Indesign blog

"The visual depiction of design evolution in Chinese architecture, amidst the nation's immense economic development, includes images of towering Shanghai skyscrapers, blueprints of the Beijing Olympics venue, and new airports and landmarks that make the Chinese skyline even more impressive." —Travel Life magazine