Vital Architecture: Between Idealism and Reality

07 Feb – 18 Mar 2026
Berlin, Germany
aedes-arc.de
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Vital Architecture presents selected projects by Atelier Li Xinggang that examine relationships between built form, landscape, and lived experience in contemporary China. Shown at Aedes Architecture Forum, the exhibition frames architecture as a mediating practice shaped by environmental conditions, historical layers, and everyday use, drawing on long-term research into Chinese cities, gardens, and construction traditions.

Models, sketches, photographs, films, and installations trace design thinking from research through occupation, emphasizing spatial continuity between structure and context. Display elements made from reused transport crates echo a cyclical approach to making, where building, environment, and human presence are understood as interconnected parts of a shared milieu.

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