‘The money doesn’t even leave China’

Interview with Daan Roggeveen and Michiel Hulshof (Go West)

Authors

  • Pierijn van der Putt TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

In Africa, rapid urbanization and explosive economic growth have led to major building activity in almost all areas: infrastructure, government buildings, housing and so on. Arrestingly, the contribution of Chinese companies is very large. It isn’t uncommon for entire cities to be thrown up by Chinese construction companies and a largely Chinese workforce.

How is China changing the face of Africa? DASH discussed this with Daan Roggeveen and Michiel Hulshof, who jointly form research collective Go West. In 2011, they published a book about the explosive growth of Chinese megacities, punctuated by photographs and anecdotes and called How the City Moved to Mr Sun. Their current journalistic research is about the impact of China on African urbanization.

Author Biography

Pierijn van der Putt, TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment

Pierijn van der Putt (Eindhoven, 1973) studied Architecture at Delft University of Technology, the University of Illinois in Chicago and Drexel University in Philadelphia. He worked as an editor for Dutch architectural magazine de Architect for seven years before returning to Delft. There, in addition to being an editor for DASH (Delft Architectural Studies on Housing), he teaches academic research and architectural design for the group of Architecture and Dwelling. His particular interest lies in creative writing and in improving academic writing skills.

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Published

2018-06-01

How to Cite

van der Putt, P. (2018). ‘The money doesn’t even leave China’: Interview with Daan Roggeveen and Michiel Hulshof (Go West). DASH | Delft Architectural Studies on Housing, 7(12/13), 102–107. Retrieved from https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/dash/article/view/5000

Issue

No. 12/13 (2016): Global Housing: Affordable Dwellings for Growing Cities

Section

Interviews