家园梦寻——中澳两位建筑师的当代20年

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2012年的春节期间是忙碌的,在匆匆地享受了同家人团聚的天伦之乐后,便辗转来到悉尼。这次来悉尼就是为了见一个人,Peter Stutchbury。向他证实一件事,

In the early 1990s, architect Zhang Bing went to Sydney, joining the rush of Chinese to study and work abroad. A chance meeting with Peter Stutchbury began a twenty-year friendship and introduced Zhang Bing to Stutchbury’s alternative architectural ambitions. However, soon after his arrival in Sydney, Zhang Bing realized that he would have more opportunities returning to China to practice mainstream architect than he would in Australia at the edge. Before his return to China, Stutchbury invited Zhang Bing to bathe in a wooden tub on his deck, providing his guest with an experience of harmony with nature that resonated with classical Chinese ideals. Ten years later, Zhang Bing returned to Sydney to discover that Stutchbury’s alternative architecture had not only been well received in Australia, but was thriving. A group of young architects who also believed that an architect’s primary responsibility was not as a developer’s draftsman, but rather as someone who of fered the developer a way of being in the world. During the same time, Zhang Bing worked in China’s over heated economy, where development projects were often no more than 'ATM Machines' for officials. This year, Zhang Bing returned to Sydney, curious about what in Strutchbury’s life had enabled him to persevere, reflecting on the conditions that might lead to sustainable change in Chinese architectural practice.