21 April: OPEN – Recent Works
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 …
8 April: ‘Design with Sharism’
Next Tuesday, 8 April, we will continue our lecture series ‘Towards New Collectivism’ with social media specialist Isaac Mao, who will discuss ‘Design with Sharism’. While we are still lingering in the …
31 March: ‘New Collectivism in Design’
Monday 31 March, Fei Jun from China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Media Lab will lecture on ‘New Collectivism in Design.’ Fei Jun is specialized in the intersection of virtual space …
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 …
16 September: Lecture Jeffrey Johnson, Co-Curator Shenzhen Biennale
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 …
9 September: Lecture Pieter Bannenberg, NL Architects
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 …
12 November: Lecture Jonathan Woetzel, Director McKinsey
As part of the series’ Follow the Money’, we will have a lecture by Jonathan Woetzel, Director with McKinsey & Company, Shanghai. The title of his lecture is “The Winning (and Sustainable) …
1 November, 7.30pm: Lecture Esther Da Costa Meyer, Princeton
On Thursday November 1st we will have professor Esther Da Costa Meyer lecturing in our series ‘Follow the Money’. Professor Da Costa Meyer teaches modern architecture from the late eighteenth century to …
22 October, 7.30pm: Lecture David Gianotten, OMA
One of the most important drivers of urbanization is money. Money determines where people settle down, where they work and live and where urban density is highest. Although money highly influences the …
Follow the Money: An Architectural Investigation of the Financial
You tell me what you know, and I’ll confirm. I’ll keep you in the right direction if I can, but that’s all. Just… follow the money. – All the President’s Man, 1976 …