ABSTRACT
The development of Chinese experimental architecture was completely intertwined with the astonishing urbanisation that has swept across China in recent decades. Time + Architecture’s special issues on experimental architecture, exhibition and group design exposed the complex relationships between architectural practice, capital investments, financial activities and state expenditures. Insofar as it consistently published critical discourses and projects in such a way as to promote the practice of emerging architects, Time + Architecture’s publication reflected the possibilities, limitations and transformation of critical architecture in the Chinese social, political, cultural and ideological contexts. I situate my examination of the journal’s engagement with critical architecture in the present urban process, simply because the publishing and material practices of architecture were closely bound up with this dramatic transformation of architecture and the city. 1
