Contemplating Basics: ZAO/standardarchitecture, Beijing/China

You can watch an Interview with Zhang Ke, a promising protagonists of a young group of Chinese architects and urban planners, and Eduard Kögel, urban planner. 

ZAO/standardarchitecture has applied basic local principles as surprising gentle solutions. In the work of Zhang Ke the local and the contemporary meet in a creative process, promoting a distinct, discrete modernity that embraces the potentials of local craftwork for new solutions.

During an exhibition at Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin, Zhang Ke gave this interview about his thoughts on landscape, culture and a new generation of architects. Additionally, Eduard Kögel helps contextualize Zhang Ke's work on global scale.

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