《21世纪中国新建筑记录》 focuses on the 21st century Chinese architecture，including exploration of young arcnitects and the contemporary desigms of architectural institutes and CoIIeges，Foreign architectural practices in China，the construction of structures for the 0lympics and the Expo．architectural clusters and architecturaI exhibitions．old building redevelopment，urban renewal，and post-disaster reconstruct on．Indeed．if we were to review the architecturaI history since 2000，an explorationof a deep-seated structure underlying various architecturaI phenomena by applying Foucault's method of“archeology”and“genealogy”would be preferable．but the work before us is a record of contemporary Chinese architectural phenomena；we should not jump to conclusions about the underlying structure，but try our best to contribute to the“archeology”of architectural knowledge．Of course，an architecturaI record of our collective memory also has an academic and historical value．