ABSTRACT
Since the early 1950s, with the policy of learning from Soviet Russia, efforts were made in China to develop a system of architectural education with Russian ideas and in accordance with a planned national economy. In the three decades until the end of Cultural Revolution in 1976, formation of an educational system went through periods of institutionalization and de-institutionalization in alternation. Attempts for a formal academic system were criticized and attacked in periods of interruption when political campaigns and “education revolution” were in full swing. This chapter chronicles a protracted trajectory towards an institutionalization in China despite the difficulties.
