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Site, programme, and tectonic expression: Hua Li’s Xinzhai Coffee House

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2021

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In contemporary Chinese architectural culture, Hua Li’s work stands out as a phenomenon. His architecture demonstrates little in the way of formalistic eccentricities, cultural symbolism, or indeed the ‘Chineseness’ that some others seek to pursue. Instead, what interests the architect is, most of all, the quality of material, construction, space, and place [1].

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