Shanghai Ten Folio is the culmination of AAVS SH10 a series of events which celebrate the tenth consecutive year of the AA Shanghai Summer School. It is the product of a multi-contributor collaboration, comprised as the composite aggregation from a large design community. Contributions to this book have been selected from the work of 745 students from 44 countries who have joined AAVS Shanghai from 2007-2016; 36 tutors who have taught in the programme; and over 80 visitors to the programme, who have given lectures and presentations, attended AAVS symposia, and toured AAVS students to their built projects, factories and galleries in and around Shanghai.

This compilation accumulatively and collectively demonstrates the ontological trajectory AAVS Shanghai has targeted, with the objective to harness, mobilise and respond to the complex challenges of Chinese urbanization in the twenty-first century.