An introduction to Beijing-based architect and urban designer Xu Tiantian's concept of Architectural Acupuncture, discussing also the influence of architecture on cultural self-understanding and economic renewal in 21st-century rural China.
“They have been in a death spiral for two decades. Now architects are rescuing China’s villages – with everything from tofu factories to lotus tea plants.” -- Oliver Wainwright, The Guardian;
Kirstin Feireiss is a writer and editor and founder of Berlin's Aedes Architecture Forum. She is a member of the Pritzker Prize jury and has been director of Netherlands Architecture Institue in Rotterdam 1996-2001. Hans-Jürgen Commerell is an architectural photographer and co-director of Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin.