ABSTRACT
In the past 20 years, a new generation of Chinese architects, many of whom have carved out an independent practice, have challenged the dominant ideology of architecture in China by offering an alternative experience, visual, tactile and spatial. Since 2000 their exploratory practices, described as experimental architecture by architectural critics, have been covered extensively in the Tongji University-based journal Time + Architecture. Why has the term ‘experimental architecture’ recently entered into the milieu of architecture? What were the conditions of occurrence of experimental architecture in the 1990s? Perhaps most importantly, how did Time + Architecture engage with and develop this architectural discourse?
