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[Caixin Global] A groundbreaking architect’s journey from France to China

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Joi's Life After World War II

Joi was the only chinese architect practising in france at that time. Before he was forty, joi became a star in the french architectural world. Joi's attention was soon drawn to the rapidly changing china emerge out of revolution and war. He learned that his father was then serving in the bajing municipal commission of urban planning. The vast extent of post war reconstruction in europe gave him the chance to engage in dozens of urban planning projects,. ranging in scale from huge urban areas to small private villas.

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