Chinese Architecture as Mediation between Modernities

This reflection approaches contemporary Chinese architecture in terms of me-diation, understood not as a secondary or conciliatory gesture, but as a core operative condition of architectural practice. Mediation here refers to architecture’s capacity to or-ganise relations between heterogeneous temporalities, forms of knowledge and regimes of authority, translating historical structures into spatial systems capable of functioning within present-day institutional frameworks. Rather than focusing on stylistic categories or formal genealogies, the analysis privileges architecture’s role as a structuring appara-tus, operating through regulation, continuity and controlled transformation