Design Practice and Education Training in the Third Front Construction: An Interview with an Architect from the Infrastructure Division of the Third Front Plant.

During the construction of the Third Front, the short-term construction of large-scale industrial and civil facilities allowed for an attempt at regionalism of industrial architecture. Scattered in Third Front factories and mining bases, the designers of the infrastructure department inspired innovative use of local knowledge, and architectural education and training methods of the same period showed the characteristics of the times. With an oral interview with Mr. Deng Changyuan, a designer in the infrastructure department of the Puqi Textile General Factory in Hubei Province, this paper explores how dynamic social changes during the war transition period led to a paradigm shift in modern Chinese architectural education during the planned economy, and how the communities carried out design works guided by the new paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]