Architecture is a continuous process, you cannot cut put your past – you can go forward, of course – but you need to learn from the past so that you can make better buildings. I feel that during the last 25 years, architects have lost this idea completely, and looked for extravaganza...
There has been a continuous debate about the death toll of the resulting famine, with scholarly estimates ranging from 18 million to about 30 million deaths, but with recent estimates by an e-media participant as low as 200,000. So the claim by Chang and Halliday (2005) that Mao ...