On July 5, 2025, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (BUCEA) hosted the launch ceremony of Blue Book of Architectural Culture: Report on the Development of Beijing Architectural Culture (2024) and the 2024 Academic Annual Conference of BeijingResearch Base for Architectural Culture. The event was co-organized by BUCEA’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Marxism, and Beijing Research Base for Architectural Culture. Nearly 50 experts and scholars from various fields engaged in in-depth discussions on the preservation, inheritance, and development of Beijing’s architectural culture.
Professor ZHANG Dayu, President of BUCEA and Editor-in-Chief of the Blue Book, emphasized that the publication aligns with Beijing’s role as a national cultural center and addresses contemporary imperatives of urban renewal and cultural heritage conservation. He stated BUCEA would continue leveraging its “architecture+” disciplinary strength to advance more theoretically profound and practically valuable outcomes.
BAI Jie, Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Cultural Heritage Bureau, highlighted Beijing’s status as a world-renowned historic and cultural metropolis possessing exceptionally rich architectural heritage. Noting the longstanding stable cooperation between the Bureau and BUCEA, he pledged enhanced collaboration in architectural heritage research.
GENG Xianjia, Editor-in-Chief of Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP), commended the Blue Book’s multifaceted value in architectural heritage preservation, policy research on architectural culture, and public engagement.
Professor QIN Hongling, Executive Editor-in-Chief of the Blue Book, underscored how the publication showcases multidimensional explorations in Beijing’s conservation of architectural heritage and development of architectural culture.
Experts jointly revealing the Blue Book
Principal authors delivering keynote speeches
Guests delivering reports
2024 Academic Annual Conference of Beijing Research Base for Architectural Culture
Coverage by People’s Daily: https://www.peopleapp.com/column/30049574817-500006360000
