This dissertation explores China’s architectural aid in less developed countries as a form of development cooperation within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). BRI aims to enhance cross-border trade, infrastructure development and economic cooperation. The architectural project under BRI presents rapid hitech constructions, reduced investment and more beneficial prospects. BRI depicts an innovative institutional framework for construction projects where both receiving and donor side engage at various stages, cooperate, exchange knowledge and demonstrate an exciting mechanism through which architecture and knowledge flow. This research critically examines the architecture exchanges under BRI as a development aid discourse. This study underlines peculiar scientific inquiry, intending to shed new light on the effects of globalization as well as the transcultural processes within specific sociocultural and political processes.
