On 9 March, we will be continuing our Spring 2015 public program with a talk by Prof. Ir. Kees Christiaanse, Architect and Urban Planner, Future Cities Laboratory Programme Leader, founder and partner of KCAP at 7:00pm. He will explore …
On Monday 21 April, architect Li Hu, founder of OPEN Architecture, will be speaking about the office’s thinking on architecture and urbanism through their recent works. Against the backdrop of ultra fast …
China is a country with a strong collective character. Farming, factory work, living; during a large part of the last century all of this happened within communities in which not the individual, …
We’re excited to start the new fall lecture series themed ‘Down to Earth’ on Thursday 10 October. Speaker will be writer and curator Ou Ning, who will lecture on his Bishan Project. …
Neville Mars is the founder of MARS Architects. In his talk, Mars will focus on water issues in the city of Mumbai, India. For the BMW Guggenheim Lab Mumbai, MARS Architects has developed an extensive …
Jeffrey Johnson is the Co-director of the 2013 Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture, which opens in December this year. With the theme ‘Crossing Urban Borders’, the Biennale wants to explore the …
NL Architects is an architectural office based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Their work is strongly rooted in Dutch architectural tradition that is famous for its conceptual approach and unique redefinition of programs …
Parametric and algorithmic design tools remain largely untested in the field of urbanism. This Monday we will finish our series ‘The Next Decade’, with a lecture by Tom Verebes, titled ‘Masterplanning the …
On Monday 20 May, we will host another lecture in the series ‘The Next Decade’. Zhu Xiaofeng will be speaking on ‘Suture quality & density’. Contemporary China has been experiencing an unprecedented …
On Monday 13 May we host a lecture in the series ‘The Next Decade’ by Don Murphy, founder of Amsterdam based VMX Architects, titled ‘Building New Communities’. The innovative work of VMX …
This Monday, our lecture series ‘The Next Decade’ at HKU/Shanghai Study Centre will focus on the future of the countryside. In his talk, Chen Haoru will discuss ‘The village surveys and the …
With 20% of the world population within its borders, China has only 7% of the global water resources. This Monday, we will host journalist Bert van Dijk in our lecture series ‘The …
