Biography
Nicholas Jewell is a practicing architect in London, UK, and completed a PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, on shopping malls and urbanism in China in 2013. Related research, on the hybridisation of Chinese models of the shopping mall on British shores was the subject of an RIBA Research Trust Award in 2010. He won the RIBA Dissertation Prize in 2000 for an essay on British malls subsequently published in The Journal of Architecture (2001). He has lectured widely on the subject of shopping malls and contributed to a number of publications, including a chapter on Dubai’s shopping malls in Architecture and Globalisation in the Persian Gulf Region (2013).
’This is a fascinating account of the emergence of Chinese shopping malls, explaining the evolution of architectural forms as well as peculiar contexts of cultural and consumption practices in China. Nicholas Jewell illuminates the social and spatial production of distinctive architecture in the Chinese consumerist society.’ Fulong Wu, University College London, UK ’This is a highly original and lucidly written book spanning architecture, urban studies and social theory. Forging new understandings of both the shopping mall and the Chinese city, it links the evolution of this problematic building type to an emerging Chinese nationalism, lifestyle and class structure. Highly recommended reading.’ Kim Dovey, University of Melbourne, Australia; author of Framing Places and Becoming Places
