18 November: Lecture Zhang Ke
From 2010 to 2015, the hunger for urbanization in China is devouring 12 million acres of land per year. This is even more worrying when compared with the staggering 150 million acres …
11 November: Lecture Huang Yinwu
Huang Yinwu graduated from the Department of Architecture of Southeast University in 1996. He later studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and the University of Hong Kong. He worked …
4 November: Lecture Wen Tiejun
Professor Wen Tiejun (Beijing, 1951) is a renowned expert on social-economic sustainable development and rural issues. Professor Wen serves as the Executive Dean at the Institute of Advanced Studies for Sustainability …
28 October: Lecture David Li
David Li has been contributing to open source since 1990. He is member of Free Software Foundation, committer to Apache projects and board of director of ObjectWeb. In the past 20 years, …
21 October: Lecture Huang Sheng-Yuan, Fieldoffice
Huang Sheng-Yuan (Taipei, Taiwan, 1963) graduated from Tunghai University Dept. of Architecture and received his M. Arch. with Honors from Yale University. In 1994 he settled down in Yilan, where he founded …
14 October: Lecture Jiang Jun
The urban – rural dichotomy in China has its unique characteristics, which makes the countryside a mirror of contemporary Chinese society. Through this mirror we can identify a series of keywords that …
Lecture series ‘Down to Earth’
Until 1978, China was a rural society. With China quickly urbanizing, its urban rural balance has radically altered. The country has transformed into an urban society, with farmers moving into skyscrapers at …
The Next Decade
FORECASTING Architecture is a practice that is driven by projective thinking, by creating a potential reality for a time to come. Forecasting the time to-be is a difficult business. It seems that …