n the Chinese Cities and Contemporary Chinese architecture

Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine
June 18 – Sept 19, 2008
The exhibition, a general outline of which was proposed by Frédéric Edelmann, takes its inspiration from a sentence in the book Across by Austrian author Peter Handke: close your eyes and the black of the letters will reveal the lights of the city. 
It is divided schematically into three parts:
The first one illustrates the history of urban China and its acceleration into the 20th century up until its metamorphosis over the past ten years. 
The second makes it possible to explore 6 cities, 6 megalopolises, known - such as Shanghai and Peking, famous - such as Suzhou and Xi’an, or unknown - such as the conurbation that stretches from Guangzhou to Shenzhen in the Pearl River Delta. Lastly, the city to make everyone’s head spin - Chongqing close to the huge Three Gorges dam. 
Freely accessible in the Cité’s topical galleries, a third part, called Positions, evokes the work of some fifteen architects reprensentative of the young Chinese architecture through forty or so remarkable achievements produced between 2003 and 2008.
The latter come as a counterpoint to the major achievements of contemporary Peking entrusted for the most part to well-known foreign signatures (Koolhaas, Herzog and De Meuron, Foster, Andreu…).  Scenic Architecture was invited to the exhibition.
The exhibition In the chinese City will be on display from 4 november 2008 to 22 February 2009 at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). Positions will be on display at the Collegi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC) starting on 4 November 2008