《朱文一线上建筑亚洲》(2015-2025)自序
朱文一
SELF-PREFACE OF ZHU WENYI ONLINE+ARCHITECTURE IN ASIA (2015-2025)
By ZHU Wenyi
This is the second book in the series after Zhu Wenyi Online Architecture in China. There are a total of 47 countries in Asia (including China), and 16 of the countries I have visited on the ground. The 57 architecture, city, and landscape conceptual design proposals included in this book cover all 46 Asian countries except China. In other words, there are 31 countries including Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, where I explore, discover, and conceive and present design solutions through solo online travel. In fact, even if I've been to a country, there are very few design locations that I've experienced.
Zhu Wenyi Online Architecture in ASIA is a collection of 57 conceptual design proposals completed from 2015 to 2025 covering 46 countries in Asia (excluding China). According to the chronological order, it can be divided into 3 periods:
Phase 3 (2024-2025) includes 30 design works covering 29 countries, mainly in Southeast and Central Asian countries. This is the architecture, city, and landscape conceptual design scheme that I have completed independently since my retirement in 2023 and carried out online tour in Asian countries. During this period, I called myself an Online+Architect.
Phase 2 (2021-2023) includes 16 design works covering 12 countries. Since 2021, I have stopped recruiting graduate students, and this is how I began my solo experience of participating in international design competitions. During this period, I called myself an Architecture Competitor. A total of 82 entries were completed in Europe and the United States over a three-year period, and 74 of them were my individual entries as a Competitor, including 16 international competition designs in Asia included in this book.
Phase 1 (2015-2021) includes 11 design works covering 5 countries. This is an entry for an international design competition completed by ZHUWENYI Atelier, which I chaired. During this period, I collaborated with graduate students on 79 design projects. The book features 5 of these designs based in Asia. I would like to thank the graduate students for their hard work.
At the end of the book, there are four appendices, namely the introduction of four books: Theory of Online Architecture (2023), Online Architecture (2013-2023), Online Architecture (2023-2024), and Zhu Wenyi's Online Architecture in China (2013-2024). They show how I came up with and explored the process of online architectural design and its theories.
It never stops. The completion of the formatting of the book Zhu Wenyi Online Architecture in ASIA (2015-2025) was also the day of the editing and typesetting of Zhu Wenyi Online Architecture in EUROPE.
ZHU Wenyi
on April 26, 2025
www.zhuwenyi.com