{"product_id":"vital-architecture","title":"Vital Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003eFounded in 2003, Beijing-based architecture firm Atelier Li Xinggang pursues a research-based approach that connects traditional Chinese architecture with contemporary strategies. Its internationally best-known projects are the National Alpine Skiing Center and the National Sliding Center in Yangqing, both competition sites of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the collaboration with Herzog \u0026amp; de Meuron on the Bird’s Nest Olympic stadium in Beijing, as well as museums, campus buildings, and renovations of historic structures in China.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eLi Xinggang’s architectural thinking draws from intensive engagement with China’s historic architecture, gardens, urban, and landscape spaces. The vulnerability of the built-in relation to nature, as well as the spatial power of traditional urban structures, form the background for a position that understands architecture as protective, structuring, and emotionally influential.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVital Architecture \u003c\/em\u003eintroduces 23 of the firm’s realized projects through photographs, plans, drawings, and concise texts. The selection includes a wide range of typologies as well as interior and furniture designs. Introductory essays are contributed by Li Xinggang and fellow architects and educators Sakamoto Kazunari and Wilfried Wang.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"search-metadata\"\u003eAtelier Li Xinggang Li Xiangning 978-3-03860-491-4\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Park Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54306404827464,"sku":"9783038604914","price":49.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/0255\/9816\/files\/978-3-03860-491-4.jpg?v=1791989326","url":"https:\/\/www.hochparterre-buecher.ch\/products\/vital-architecture","provider":"Hochparterre Bücher","version":"1.0","type":"link"}