NEW MUSEUMS IN CHINA CLARE JACOBSON PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS NEW YORK ix INTRODUCTION: Building Culture EAST xiii Note to the Reader 11. NANJING 74 SIFANG ART MUSEUM Steven Holl Architects PROJECTS 80 JIANGSU PROVINCIAL ART MUSEUM KSPJiirgen Engel Architekten NORTHEAST AND NORTH 12. SUZHOU 1. HARBIN 84 SUZHOU MUSEUM 1 CHINA WOOD SCULPTURE MUSEUM I. M. Pei Architect with Pei Partnership Architects MAD Architects 13. SHANGHAI 2. CHANGCHUN 90 ROCKBUND ART MUSEUM 4 MUSEUM OF CULTURE, FINE ARTS, AND SCIENCE David Chipperfield Architects 96 SHANGHAI MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner Atelier Liu Yuyang 3. CHAOYANC 100 ZHUJIAJ1AO MUSEUM OF HUMANITIES AND ARTS 8 NIUHELIANC ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM Scenic Architecture Office Sutherland Hussey Architects with Pansolution 104 HIMALAYAS ART MUSEUM International Design Arata Isozaki & Associates 108 SHANGHAI AUTO MUSEUM 4. QINHUANGDAO IFB Dr. Braschel AG 12 QINHUANGDAO BIRD MUSEUM 112 MINSHENG ART MUSEUM Turenscape Approach Architecture Studio 116 SHANGHAI MUSEUM OF GLASS 5. TANGSHAN logon 16 TANGSHAN MUSEUM 120 SHANGHAI NATURE MUSEUM Urbanus Architecture & Design Perkins+Will 6. TIANJIN 14. LIANGZHU TOWN 20 TIANJIN MUSEUM 124 LIANGZHU MUSEUM Shin Takamatsu Architect & Associates with David Chipperfield Architects Kawaguchi & Engineers 15. HANGZHOU 7. BEIJING 130 MUSEUM OF THE IMPERIAL ROAD 24 CAFA ART MUSEUM Amateur Architecture Studio Arata Isozaki & Associates 134 CHINA COMIC AND ANIMATION MUSEUM 30 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CHINA MVRDV Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner 36 SONGZHUANC ART MUSEUM 16. NINGBO DnA Design and Architecture 138 NINGBO HISTORY MUSEUM 42 CHAOYANG URBAN PLANNING MUSEUM Amateur Architecture Studio NEXT Architects 46 IBERIA CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Approach Architecture Studio SOUTH CENTRAL 50 MINSHENG MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Studio Pei-Zhu 17. SHENZHEN 54 POLY ART MUSEUM 144 OCT DESIGN MUSEUM Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Studio Pei-Zhu 150 DAFEN ART MUSEUM 8. DATONG Urbanus Architecture & Design 58 DATONG ART MUSEUM 154 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AND Foster + Partners PLANNING EXHIBITION Coop Himmelb(l)au 9. TAIYUAN 62 TAIYUAN MUSEUM OF ART 18. HONG KONG Preston Scott Cohen 158 ASIA SOCIETY HONG KONG Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects 10. ORDOS 66 ORDOS ART MUSEUM 19. MACAO DnA Design and Architecture 164 MACAO SCIENCE CENTER 70 ORDOS MUSEUM Pei Partnership Architects with I. M. Pei Architect MAD Architects 20. GUANGZHOU 168 GUANGDONG MUSEUM Rocco Design Architects 174 TIMES MUSEUM Rem Koolhaas and Alain Fouraux 21. CHANGSHA 27. XINJIN 180 T ART MUSEUM 212 XINJIN 2HI MUSEUM FANStudio Kengo Kuma and Associates 22. JISHOU 28. ANREN 184 HUANG YONCYU MUSEUM 218 MUSEUM OF CULTURAL REVOLUTION CLOCKS Atelier FCJZ Jiakun Architects 29. NEIJIANG NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST 222 ZHANG DAQIAN MUSEUM Miralles Tagliabue EMBT 23. YINCHUAN 190 YINCHUAN ART MUSEUM 30. KUNMING We Architech Anonymous 226 YUNNAN MUSEUM Rocco Design Architects 24. XI'AN 194 XI'AN QUJIANG MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 31. XIANZHUANG VILLAGE Neri&Hu Design and Research Office 230 MUSEUM OF HANDCRAFT PAPER Trace Architecture Office 25. YUNQIAO VILLAGE 198 LUYEYUAN STONE SCULPTURE MUSEUM Jiakun Architects 236 AFTERWORD: A Museum in Process Xie Xiaofan, deputy director of the 26. CHENGDU National Art Museum of China 204 CHENGDU MUSEUM Sutherland Hussey Architects with Pansolution 237 Acknowledgments International Design 238 Notes 208 NEW CENTURY CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER Zaha Hadid Architects.