Ideale Stadt
Subtitle: reale Projekte : Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner in China = Ideal city : real projects by Gerkan, Marg and Partner in China
By: edited by Pinakothek der Moderne ; texts by Meinrad von Gerkan ... [et al.]
Contributors: Gerkan, Meinhard von, 1935-; Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich, Germany)
Publisher: Hatje Cantz; Amalgamated Book Services [distributor]
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ostfildern-Ruit; Maidstone
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Von Gerkan, Marg und Partner; Architecture, German -- China -- Exhibitions; City planning -- China -- Exhibitions
Other titles: Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner in China; Ideal city
Description: "Within a period of six years, the Hamburg firm of von Gerkan, Marg and Partner - gmp, for short - has completed over one hundred designs for clients in China, five of which are already finished and twenty of which are currently under construction or in the planning stage. Preeminent is Lingang New City, a planned harbour city for 800,000 inhabitants close to Shanghai. Conceived by gmp in the tradition of ideal cities, the neighbourhoods were arranged in concentric rings around an artificial circular lake. Urban elements and spaces fulfil different communal functions - ranging from a city archive to theatres and churches to convention centres - while giving the plans an identity."--Jacket.
Notes: Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität München in der Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 30 June - 2 Oct. 2005

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