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100			_93176 _aWilkinson, Tom
245			_aStudio Houses in Beijing, China by Knowspace
250			_a17 February 2017
260			_aLondon _bEMAP Publishing Limited _c2017
520			_aThe romantic image of the artist is a lone figure struggling in a garret. But this is rarely the case: for many, isolation is not conducive to creativity, whereas community allows for the exchange of ideas and inspiration. The enduring popularity of artists’ colonies is testimony to this: from Giverny to Provincetown, artists have fled cities to settle where life can be reorganised around communal creative labour – and crucially, with cheaper rents. Today, one of the most substantial artists’ colonies in the world is 20km from Beijing in the suburb of Songzhuang. This was established by a group of artists who relocated from the inner suburbs 20 years ago. It embodies ancient and modern aspects of Chinese culture: the long tradition of the artist-scholar leaving the city for rural seclusion, and the more recent process of urbanisation that has devoured formerly peripheral areas of Chinese cities, rendering them insufficiently isolated for such purposes.
650		0	_971 _aARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)
773	0		_x0003-861X _dLondon EMAP Publishing Limited _tArchitectural review
856			_uhttps://www.architectural-review.com/buildings/studio-houses-in-beijing-china-by-knowspace?utm_source=WordPress&utm_medium=Recommendation&utm_campaign=Recommended_Articles _yClick here
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