19 July – 9 August: AAVS SHANGHAI TEN | SHOW | EVENT Architectural Association Visiting School
AAVS SHANGHAI TEN | SHOW | EVENT
Architectural Association Visiting School
Conceived & Curated by Tom Verebes, Director, AAVS Shanghai (2007 – 2016)
Assisted by Nicole LIN Zhixin, SU Kelsi
Hosted at The University of Hong Kong Shanghai Study Centre
Exhibition: (19 July – 9 August), HKU SSC Gallery
Exhibition Opening: 19 July, 6pm, HKU SSC Gallery
Symposium: 19 July 3-6pm; 20 July 1-6pm, 2/F, HKU SSC
SHANGHAI TEN includes a series of events conceived for a celebration of the tenth consecutive year of the AA Shanghai Summer School, the largest of yearly 60 programmes in the Architectural Association Visiting School. SHANGHAI TEN has been curated, edited and hosted in 3 parts, including an exhibition (AAVS SH10 | SHOW), and a symposium event (AAVS SH10 | EVENT), and a book, AAVS SH10 | FOLIO, to be published in autumn 2016. SHANGHAI TEN is the product of a multi-contributor collaboration, comprised as the composite aggregation of contributions from a large design community. Contributions to this exhibition have been selected from over 700 students from 42 countries who have joined AAVS Shanghai since 2007; 38 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 in and around Shanghai. The content of AAVS SHANGHAI TEN includes student work from AAVS Shanghai over ten years, from 2007-2016, and a selection design work of past and present tutors and visitors to AAVS Shanghai. This exhibition collectively demonstrates the diverse design approaches and paradigms AAVS Shanghai has addressed the complex challenges of Chinese urbanization in this century.
SHANGHAI TEN is an opportunity not only to look back, collate, reflect critically, and to disseminate the work of the students, tutors, and visitors in the 10 years of the AAVS Shanghai Summer School, but also, this curatorial and editorial event presents an important opportunity to look forward towards the future. More than simply a retrospective review of the past achievements of the experimental teaching studios of AAVS SH, this exhibition captures a projective account of the state of architecture and urbanism in the accelerated context of conceiving and making cities in China. Through its varied content and different formats, this exhibition probes the diverse ways in which designers today interact with instruments and paradigms with which to harness and mobilise the complex forces which shape cities. SHANGHAI TEN addresses theories, narratives, design approaches and instruments with which to engage with urbanism in the context of the unprecedented scale and extent of urbanization of China. The principle ambition of the SHANGHAI TEN events is to articulate the evolving intellectual agendas related to AAVS Shanghai’s commitment to the very serious ways in which today’s young generation plays with computational design systems applied to urban questions, issues and problems. More specifically, our laboratory has always been focused on Shanghai – a vast, quickly changing, expanding and transforming urban organism, within the context of the Yangtze River Delta Metropolitan Region, of a population exceeding 90m. SHANGHAI TEN presents to the body of work which has been accrued in AAVS, by its students, staff and visitors. This endeavour is foremost concerned with the projective imagination of a generation of designers more committed to innovation which occurs haptically, often by accident, than with the propriety of how urbanism has been conventionally conceived and proposed.
SHANGHAI TEN | SHOW: EXHIBITION CONTRIBUTORS
DESIGN FOLIO | VISITORS to AAVS SH:
Stefan Al Architects (New York)
Contemporary Architecture Practice (New York, Shanghai)
Cities of Repetition (Hong Kong)
E-Grow (Shanghai)
David J. Gerber (Los Angeles)
Go West Project (Shanghai)
Obuchi Lab (Tokyo)
OO Studio (Hong Kong)
MARS Architects (Shanghai)
Plasma Studio (Beijing, Bolzano, London)
Playze Architects (Berlin, Shanghai, Zurich)
Jonathan D. Solomon (Chicago)
SPAN (Detroit, Shanghai)
Synthesis Design (Los Angeles)
UNStudio (Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Shanghai)
Zaha Hadid Architects (Beijing, Chengdu, London)
DESIGN FOLIO | TUTORS and DIRECTOR of AAVS SH:
Kristof Crolla (LEAD: Hong Kong)
Gao Yan (dot A: Beijing, Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
Wendy W. Fok (Resilient Modular Systems: Hong Kong, New York)
Luis Fraguada (BAD: Barcelona)
Daniel Gillen (MAD: Beijing, Chicago)
Ercu Gorgul (EGG: Shanghai & LEAD: Hong Kong)
Mohamad Ghamlouch (Minus Collective: Hong Kong)
Andrew Haas (OCEAN CN: Hong Kong)
Soomeen Hahm (Soomeen Hahm Design)
Zed Huang Yung-Chieh (Zaha Hadid Architects: London)
Joo Ryung Kim (JRK Associates: Seoul)
Lydia Kim (Zaha Hadid Architects: London)
Immanuel Koh (Arup: London)
Steven Ma (Xuberance: Shanghai)
Nathan Melenbrink (The United Nathans: Cambridge MA, Shanghai)
Mary Polites & Ignacio Lopez (MAPS: Shanghai)
Gilles Retsin (Gilles Retsin Architecture: London)
Bittor Sanchez-Monasterio & Nicolás Salto del Giorgio (BYN: Sao Paolo)
Su Yunsheng (Etopia: Shanghai)
Tom Verebes (OCEAN CN Consultancy Network: Hong Kong)
Richard Wei-Tse Wang & Stephen W. Wang (WZWX Architecture Group: Shanghai, Taipei)
Wang Xin (XD Architects: Beijing)
Zheng Lei (Zheng Lei: London)
SHANGHAI TEN | EVENT: URBAN INTELLIGENCE SYMPOSIUM
TUESDAY 19 JULY 2016
15:00 // INTRODUCTION
Tom VEREBES, Curator & Editor, AAVS SHANGHAI TEN, Director AAVS Shanghai
AA VS SHANGHAI TEN | EVENT
URBAN INTELIGENCE
上海访校十周年系列 | 研讨会:城市智能 Tuesday 19 July – Wednesday 20 July 2016
2016 年 7月19日—7月20日
AAVS / AA Shanghai Summer School 2016
Curator & Moderator, Tom VEREBES
Assisted by Nicole LIN Zhixin (AA), SU Kelsi (HKU)
Hosted @
The University of Hong Kong Shanghai Study Centre 298 North Suzhou Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai
香港大学上海学习中心 北苏州路298号 上海虹口区
As part of the events organized within SHANGHAI TEN, a celebration of the Architectural Association Visiting School’s 10th annual Shanghai Summer School, a large group of architects, urbanists, educators and theorists will participate in an two-day symposium, also comprising an exhibition opening for SHANGHAI TEN | SHOW. The exhibition, along with this corresponding 2-day EVENT, probes the diverse ways in which designers today interact with instruments and paradigms with which to harness and mobilise the complex forces which shape cities. This event aims to address the challenges of Chinese urbanization in this century, as a platform for dissemination of the leading narratives of urbanism, and their corresponding taxonomies, as well as design formulations in projects, and the exposition of their instruments, by some of today’s most celebrated practices. As a theme for this year’s annual AAVS SHANGHAI SYMPOSIUM, the 2-day agenda will unpack and critically assess the discourse around URBAN INTELLIGENCE, with a view to chart the discipline’s projective imagination on cities – the greatest project of this century, loaded immensely complex environmental, social, political and economic challenges.
SHANGHAI TEN | EVENT brings together 34 architects, urbanists, theorists, historians, writers, educators, curators, technologists, and a few rogues who escape classification, for a 2-day event. The format for this event kicks off on DAY 1 (19 July) with an INTRODUCTION and KEYNOTE ADDRESSES; a PANEL DISCUSSION with educational leaders; and the EXHIBITION OPENING of SHANGHAI TEN | SHOW. DAY 2 (20 July) will have 3 SALON CONVERSATIONS, with a series of brief visual presentation by some of the leading experts shaping China’s urban future, with each series of presentations followed by an informal and candid discussion around the theme of each session; and a CONCLUDING PANEL to wrap up the event.
AAVS SYMPOSIUM ROSTER:
Stefan AL (Stefan Al Architects: New York)
Duangrit BUNNAG (DBALP: Bangkok)
Anthony BURKE (Head of Architecture, UTS Sydney: Sydney)
Eva CASTRO (Plasma Studio: Beijing, London, Bolzano)
Thomas DANIELL (Head of Architecture, University of Saint Joseph: Macau)
Matias DEL CAMPO (SPAN: Detroit, Shanghai)
Tarsha FINNEY (UTS Sydney: Sydney)
GAO Yan, (dot-A: Beijing, Shenzhen)
Yosuke HAYANO (MAD: Beijing, Tokyo)
Sand HELSEL (Director, PRS Asia PhD Programme, RMIT: Ho Chi Minh City, Melbourne) Alvin HUANG (Synthesis Design: Los Angeles)
Garett HWANG (UNStudio: Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Shanghai)
Hina JAMELLE (Contemporary Architecture Practice: New York, Shanghai)
Holger KEHNE (Plasma Studio: Beijing, London, Bolzano)
Jerry KU (E-Grow: Shanghai)
Christian LANGE (Rocker-Lange Architects: Hong Kong)
Neil LEACH (Tongji University: Shanghai)
Anderson LEE (Director, HKU Shanghai Study Centre: Shanghai)
Sandra MANNINGER (SPAN: Detroit, Shanghai)
Neville MARS (Mars Architects: Shanghai)
Yusuke OBUCHI (Obuchi Lab, University of Tokyo: Tokyo)
Satoshi OHASHI (Zaha Hadid Architects: Beijing)
Christopher PIERCE (Director Architectural Visiting School: London)
Ali RAHIM (Contemporary Architecture Practice: New York, Shanghai)
Francois ROCHE (New Territories: Bangkok)
Daan ROGGEVEEN (More Architects: Shanghai)
Patrik SCHUMACHER (Zaha Hadid Architects: London)
Michael SORKIN (Director, School of Architecture, City College: New York)
SU Yunsheng (Etopia: Shanghai)
T om VEREBES (Provost, T urenscape Academy: Xixinan, Anhui, China)
Philip VERNON (E-Grow: Shanghai)
Richard Wei-Tse WANG (WZWX Architecture Group: Shanghai, Taipei)
Stephen W. WANG (WZWX Architecture Group: Shanghai, Taipei)
SCHEDULE TUESDAY 19 JULY 2016
HKU SHANGHAI STUDY CENTRE, LECTURE HALL (1/F)
15:00 // INTRODUCTION
Tom VEREBES (Curator & Editor, AAVS SHANGHAI TEN, Director AAVS Shanghai)
15:30 // KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Christopher PIERCE (Director Architectural Visiting School: London) Patrik SCHUMACHER (Director, Zaha Hadid Architects: London)
17:00 // LEADERSHIP PANEL DISCUSSION:
CURRICULA & RESEARCH AGENDAS FOR C21 URBANISATION
This PANEL DISCUSSION, comprised by a large group of academic leaders in architecture and urbanism, addresses the various curricular disciplinary approaches to engaging in teaching and researching the city, during the most fervent era of urbanization ever. Brought together are leaders of schools and programmes from Greater China and the Asian region, Europe, America and Australia, to debate their institutions’ varied pedagogic approaches and research arenas.
Thomas DANIELL (Head of Architecture, University of Saint Joseph: Macau)
Anthony BURKE (Head of Architecture, UTS Sydney: Sydney)
Sand HELSEL (Director, PRS Asia PhD Programme, RMIT: Ho Chi Minh City, Melbourne) Anderson LEE (Director, Shanghai Study Centre, The University of Hong Kong: Shanghai) Christopher PIERCE (Director Architectural Visiting School: London)
Michael SORKIN (Director, School of Architecture, City College: New York)
T om VEREBES (Provost, T urenscape Academy: Xixinan, Anhui, China)
18:00 // EXHIBITION OPENING OF SHANGHAI TEN | SHOW
HKU SHANGHAI STUD Y CENTRE GALLER Y
19:00 // DINNER FOR CONFERENCE PRESENTERS & PANELISTS
VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED
WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2016
HKU SHANGHAI STUDY CENTRE, PRESENTATION SPACE (2/F)
13:00 // SALON CONVERSA TION 1:
CHANGING PARADIGMS OF URBANISM
In this first of three salon conversations, this session aims to take stock of the discursive shifts in the theorisation, conceptualisation, and practical modes of engaging with the contemporary city as architects and urbanists. A diverse cast practitioners, researchers and educators are invited to expand on widely accepted formulations of urbanism in how the discipline has evolved in the west, to address directly the challenges and opportunities witnessed in Asian urbanisation and the particular conditions of China’s massive drive to urbanise hundreds of millions of people at unprecedented speed and scale. Presenters are asked how design intelligence in urbanism can achieve three capacities: to harness of the complexity of the city; to generate capacities of cities to adapt and evolve to change; and to yield organisational material variation and specificity.
Stefan AL (Stefan Al Architects: New York)
Neil LEACH (Tongji University: Shanghai)
Tarsha FINNEY (University of Technology UTS Sydney: Sydney) Neville MARS (MARS Architects: Shanghai)
Daan ROGGEVEEN (More Architects: Shanghai)
SU Yunsheng (ETOPIA: Shanghai)
14:15 // BREAK
14:30 // SALON CONVERSA TION 2:
MATERIAL INTELLIGENCE & INNOVATION IN PRACTICE
In this second session, a panel of designers, whose media is primarily material, are asked to address the convergence of sameness among cities worldwide. The legacy of twentieth century models of assembly-based repetitive production has left enduring effects of standardization on cities, notably their universal monotonous similitude. Presenters in this event will confront, from a variety of approaches, the prevalence of default spatial and material modes of standardized production shaping cities in the twenty-first century, and the ways in which the qualities of cities can be amplified and differentiated, to become identifiable rather than indistinguishable, through the application of material intelligence. Through built commission and material research, this session echoes the AAVS Shanghai Summer School theme, “SpecifiCITIES”, which stands in opposition to the proliferation of generic and ubiquitous design production, biasing the specific and unique, over the general and reproducible.
Alvin HUANG (Synthesis Design: Los Angeles)
Duangrit BUNNAG (DBALP: Bangkok)
GAO Yan (dot A: Beijing, Shenzhen
Christian LANGE (Cities of Repetition: Hong Kong) Yusuke OBUCHI (Obuchi Lab, University of Tokyo: Tokyo) Jerry KU & Philip VERNON (E-Grow: Shanghai)
Richard Wei-Tse WANG & Stephen W. WANG (WZWX Architecture Group: Shanghai, Taipei) 15:45 // BREAK
16:00 // SALON CONVERSA TION 3:
INTELLIGENCE & IMAGINATION: FUTURE VISIONS OF THE CITY
In this final salon conversation, a group of architects and urbanists working at the cutting edge in China, will speculate on intelligence and projective imagination, through their design projects and body of work. What are the repercussions of information, communication, design and fabrication technologies have immense potential to augmented the intelligence of cities? In which ways will cities in the future driven by the underlying processing of large and long datasets of information, and what are the design consequences of modeling the dynamics of the city? Lastly, this panel is asked to speculate on sketching future visions of cities in this shift towards information and interactivity, as the basis of conceiving and working on the city.
Matias DEL CAMPO & Sandra MANNINGER (SPAN Architects: Detroit, Shanghai) Eva CASTRO & Holger KEHNE (Plasma Studio: Beijing, Bolzano, London)
Yosuke HAYANO (MAD: Beijing, Tokyo)
Garett HWANG (UN Studio: Shanghai)
Hina JAMELLE & Ali RAHIM (Contemporary Architecture Practice: New York, Shanghai) Satoshi OHASHI (Zaha Hadid Architects: Beijing)
Francois ROCHE (New Territories: Bangkok)
17:15 // SUMMAR Y COMMENTS
Thomas DANIELL (Head of Architecture, University of Saint Joseph: Macau)
Anthony BURKE (Head of Architecture, UTS Sydney: Sydney)
Sand HELSEL (Director, PRS Asia PhD Programme, RMIT: Ho Chi Minh City, Melbourne) Anderson LEE (Director, Shanghai Study Centre, The University of Hong Kong: Shanghai) Christopher PIERCE (Director Architectural Visiting School: London)
Patrik SCHUMACHER (Director, Zaha Hadid Architects: London)
Michael SORKIN (Director, School of Architecture, City College: New York)
Tom VEREBES (Curator & Editor, AAVS SHANGHAI TEN, Director AAVS Shanghai)
18:00 // END
19:00 // DINNER FOR CONFERENCE PRESENTERS & PANELISTS VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED