YEARBOOK 2018 - 2019 | XJTLU DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

The lecture series is in partnership
with RIBA
The lecture series is in partnership
with RIBA
The lecture series is in partnership
with RIBA
The lecture series is in partnership
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CAST 01
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series 2018/19
Coup de grace / YU TING
Yu Ting
Architect, Gourmet, Columnist
Bachelor of Architecture in Tsinghua University Department of Architecture;
Architectural Design and Theory Ph.D. of Tongji University; professor level
senior engineer; visiting Professor of Architecture in Southeast University
School; founder of Let’s Talk, urban micro-space revival plan and Wutopia
Lab.
CAST 02
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series 2018/19
Typological Rural / ZHANG LEI
Zhang Lei
Graduated from Southeast University in Nanjing & Finished his post-
CAST 03
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series 2018/19
Learning from Hong Kong:
In Search of a New Urban Dynamics
GARY CHANG
Gary Chang
Founder & Managing Director
EDGE Design Institute Ltd.
CHINESE ARCHITECT
SEMINAR AND TALK SERIES
( CAST )
Design Philosophy
graduate study in ETH-Zurich, Zhang Lei found his architecture of-
Yu Ting thinks all the hard training, thinking and design process should be
fice AZL architects 2001 in Nanjing.
Gary Chang has become one of the foremost creative forces within the archi-
presented with a relaxed gesture at the end.
In May 2009 Zhang Lei was named by Icon Magazine as one of 20
tectural, interior and product design industry, by challenging traditional bound-
Wutopia Lab is an Architecture lab based on a new paradigm of complex systems,
which regards Shanghai’s culture and life style as the starting point,
using architecture as the tool to promote sociological progress within building
practice.
Wutopia Lab focuses on human and is dedicated to link different aspects of
urban life: traditional, daily and cultural to interpret Urbanian’s lifestyle, and to
develop an aesthetic style of China based on Shanghai.
Wutopia Lab creates miracles in the day-to-day. We use the strategy of the
duality, design from local material and local conditions in an arbitrary and ever-changing
way.
If the world is not good enough, let us create a better one.
architects who are transforming the future and changing the way
we work. AZL was selected into one of the ten architecture offices
as Design Vanguard 2008 by Architectural Record. In fall of 2012,
Zhang Lei was named as candidates for 4th Swiss Architectural
Awards. AZL’s “Slit House” was entered as honorable mention project
by ar+d world emerging architecture awards 2008 by Architectural
Review.
While winning the Architecture awards like “WA Chinese Architecture
Awards” (2002,2006,2008) & “Chinese Architecture & Art Awards”
(2004), He is involved in major international exhibitions on contemporary
Chinese Architecture in Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy
& American. His works are published quite intensively in interna-
aries and rethinking the possibilities with and dynamism of spatial flexibility. He
has built a reputation for his multi-disciplinary designs that combine modernism
with tradition, innovation with familiarity, urbanity with nature, and art with
practicality.
Born in Hong Kong, Gary did not view the 32 m2 apartment in which he lived
with his parents and three sisters as a constraint. Instead, the small space
sparked a lasting curiosity in redefining the potential of compact spaces. Gary
graduated from The University of Hong Kong in 1987 and founded his company
EDGE in 1994. Since then, Gary has demonstrated his keen artistic visions
through his numerous award-winning designs, keynote lectures and literary
works. These include such notable works as the Suitcase House in Beijing, his
2018/19
tional magazines like GA documents, Domus, Lotus, Architectur-
Kung-fu tea-set for ALESSI, his book “Hotel as Home”, and of course, the lat-
al Record, Architectural Design, Architectural Review, Mark, Icon,
est transformation of his 32 m2 apartment. A YouTube video of the latter was a
Wallpaper etc.
sensation and an inspiration to millions globally.
Zhang Lei is now teaching as professor in School of Architecture &
City Planning & head of Sustainable Rural Architecture Research
With a fervent passion for offering transformational designs that exemplify ulti-
Center in Nanjing University. He has been invited as guest profes-
mate adaptability, choice and sensibility, Gary Chang is undoubtedly one of the
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn
sor & critic in Hong Kong University, Chinese University of Hong
Kong, Chiba Institute of Technology in Tokyo & GSD-Harvard.
most symbolic and influential figures in the design world today.
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung
philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn
Date 25th Sept 2018
Date 18th Oct 2018
Date 29th Nov 2018
Time
6:00pm-7:30pm
Time
6:00pm-7:30pm
Time
6:00pm-7:30pm
2018-2019 YEARBOOK Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
Venue
DBG19 XJTLU South Campus
Suzhou China
XJTLU Department of Architecture
LECTURE SERIES 2018 - 2019
CAST 04
Date 5th Dec 2018
Time 6:00pm-7:30pm
Venue DB455 XJTLU South Campus
Suzhou China
XJTLU Department of Architecture
LECTURE SERIES 2018 - 2019
CAST 06
Date 21st March 2019
Time 6:00pm-8:00pm
Venue DBG19, XJTLU South Campus, Suzhou China
XJTLU Department of Architecture
LECTURE SERIES 2018 - 2019
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series 2018/19
COSMOS: Spinney (Mixed Forests)
/ Universe
LIAO WEILI
Introduction
Through a rigorous observation and reflection to the geography, history,
culture and society of Taiwan, I have become deeply aware of a mixed and
diverse energy that is embodied within my mind and body. This embodiment
forms the ‘Spinney (Mixed forests)’ concept as the aesthetic diversity,
a working process which leads a continuous thread into my practice, reflection
and thinking.
Within the process of architecture creation, I experience and observe the
operating rules of the natural universe, then realize the mystery of ‘existence’
and ‘variety’ of everything on earth. Always aware of life’s chorus and
the aura revealed by our universe that naturally combine with the environment
and construct a micro ‘architecture universe’ through the process of
creative thinking.
Liao Weili
Born in Town Tung-Hsiao, Taiwan. He graduated form SCI-Arc in 1999, taught
by Coy Howard, Eric Owen Moss; and established AMBi Studio in Taichung,
2001. Through trying to apply landscape and humanism in the middle west
of Taiwan for site plus background, he practices, thinks and self-examines
architecture for this island, which owned a changing politic, culture and history,
as well as the various ecology, landscape, and heterogeneous citizen
power with observation and challenge. His project presented a fierce energy
of multi-diversity in Taiwanese architecture and the integration between
environment and people.
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series 2018/19
Interactive with Nature Through Architecture
LI XINGGANG
Introduction
Architecture that interacts with the nature, essentially through architecture as an intermediary / Media, to achieve
the situation that makes people interact with the “nature”, in order to face the grim and diverse reality of the contemporary,
to create the ideal living space of mankind.
Li Xinggang
Li Xinggang is currently Chief Architect of China Architecture Design & Research Group , the director of Atelier Li Xinggang,
visiting professor of Tianjin University and the Southeast University, the design tutor in School of Architecture in Tsinghua
University, member of UIA Sports and Leisure Group and the Master of Engineering Survey and Design in China. He has
won various honors and awards of architecture such as: China Youth Science and Technology Awards; Gold/Silver Prize of
China National Outstanding Architecture Awards. He was also invited to hold a mini-exhibition about his works, the “Geometry
and Sheng Jing”, and to take part in some exhibitions concerning architecture and art, such as 11th Venice Biennale of
Architecture, “Illusion into Reality: Chinese Gardens for Living”, Dresden; “From Beijing to London: 16 Contemporary Chinese
Architects”, London.
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn
Venue
DBG19 XJTLU South Campus
Suzhou China
XJTLU Department of Architecture
LECTURE SERIES 2018 - 2019
CAST 07
Date 11th April 2019
Time 6:00pm-8:00pm
Venue DBG19, XJTLU South Campus, Suzhou China
XJTLU Department of Architecture
LECTURE SERIES 2018 - 2019
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series 2018/19
Invisible Architecture:
Learning from 7-Eleven &
Illegal Architecture
ROAN CHING YUEH
Introduction
For over hundred years of modern architecture development,
it is totally affected by political and capital power.
The relationship between architecture and people
is weaken and disconnected. Re-thinking architecture
from local context and integrating local wisdom / technology,
it may be an escape from power control, and
great opportunity to re-consider the meaning of architecture
to people?
Roan Ching-yueh
Author, architect and curator
Formerly a professional architect (licensed in Taiwan
and in the United States), he is now a professor at the
Department of Art and Design at Yuan Ze University.
A prolific author and curator, Roan Ching-yueh is
the recipient of numerous literary prizes, as well as
architecture awards including the Architectural Critic
Award from the Third Annual China Architectural Media
Awards in 2012, and the Outstanding Architect of
the Year award 2015 in Taiwan. His novel Victory Song
won the 2004 Taipei Literary Award, and Lin Xiuzi was
long-listed for the 2009 Man Asia Literary prize.
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung
philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn
Venue
DBG19 XJTLU South Campus
Suzhou China
XJTLU Department of Architecture
LECTURE SERIES 2018 - 2019
CAST 05
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series 2018/19
Of Land and People: A Decade in China
LIU YUYANG
Introduction
Through observation, research, and design projects by Liu Yuyang, a Shanghai-based architect and co-author with Rem Koolhaas
of the Great Leap Forward - the first research on contemporary Chinese urbanism in Pearl River Delta, the lecture will be
a personal account of how Chinese urbanism and architecture have evolved in the last decade as three distinct and sometime
concurrent thematic phases: new town development, urban regeneration and countryside construction. The lecture will end with
Mr. Liu’s latest work on urban waterfront redevelopment in Shanghai Minsheng Wharf in Pudong as an uniquely Chinese ambition
of design and politics.
Liu Yuyang
Founder and Principal of Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects
Member of the Shanghai Architectural Society Academic Committee
Visiting Professor of the Innovation Experimental Program, Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Born in Taiwan and educated in the United States, Mr. Liu Yuyang received his Master in Architecture from GSD, Harvard University
in 1997 and his B.A. in Urban Studies and Planning from University of California, San Diego in 1992. While at Harvard, Mr.
Liu researched with Rem Koolhaas and co-authored Great Leap Forward in 2001, a seminal work on the urbanization of China’s
Pearl River Delta, the content of which exhibited at the Documenta X in Kassel, Germany.
Having held a number of professional and academic positions in U.S and Hong Kong, Mr. Liu established the Shanghai-based
Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects in 2007. Mr. Liu leads the Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects in its full design and management responsibilities,
and serves as a member of the Shanghai Architectural Society Academic Committee, an advisory architect for the Shanghai
Qingpu District Land and Planning Bureau, a honorary associate professor at faculty of architecture of HKU Shanghai Study
Centre, a guest professor at CAUP of Tongji University.
Mr. Liu’s notable research-based projects with public interest and forward thinking include Shanghai Contemporary Museum of
Art(MoCA), Qingpu Environmental Monitoring Station and Riverfront Aite Park in Shanghai, Cidi Memo iTown in Beijing, Yunlu
Resort and Yoga Pavilion with Pool in Guangxi, China Fortune Wisdom Mark Phase I&III, Tongji University Affiliated Experimental
Primary School, Vanke Experimental Kindergarten, Minsheng Wharf Riverfront Open Space Renovation and Yangjing Harbor
Huihong Bridge in Shanghai.
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn
Date 25th Feb 2019
Time 6:00pm-8:00pm
Venue DBG19, XJTLU South Campus, Suzhou China
XJTLU Department of Architecture
LECTURE SERIES 2018 - 2019
CAST 08
Date 2nd May 2019
Time 6:00pm-8:00pm
Venue DB455, XJTLU South Campus, Suzhou China
XJTLU Department of Architecture
LECTURE SERIES 2018 - 2019
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series 2018/19
The Garden of Forking Paths
DOREEN HENG LIU
Intrdouction
“With the uncertain moment, i understand the world in a abstract way.”
This is an extract from the famous short story of Jorge Luis Borges. It is
a story about time and people. “ Time is a net of hybrid systems, which
overlay, intersect or never interact, it includes all possibilities. Time is not
united and absolute, it is always diverting to infinite futures.”
Time is space, architecture is story of space and people, it is space of infinite
experiences. Our architecture is to design these ‘impossible’ infinite
experiences, it is space, but also time.
Between the world and people, is the experience and understanding of
infinite possibilities.
Doreen Heng Liu
Born in Guangzhou, China. She received Bachelor of Architecture in
Central China University of Science and Technology (now the Huazhong
University of Science and Technology). In the same year, she was admitted
by Tongji University without sitting the entrance examination. In
1994, she received M.Arch from University of California, Berkeley. She
won the best design prize of the academic year and the travel scholarship
of I.M.Pei. From 1995 to 2007, she worked as consultant architect
in Fok Foundation of Hong Kong and design director of Nansha New
City project. In 1999, she completed her first project ‘Nansha Science
Museum’ after graduation. In 2004, she returned to the U.S. to study at
Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she studied under Professor
Margaret Crawford and Professor Zhang Yonghe, and received a Doctor
of Design in 2008. She established her practice [NODE] (Nansha Original
Design) in Hong Kong in 2004, and opened the branch in Shenzhen
in 2009. Since September 2008, she has been teaching at the School of
Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong as adjunct associate professor.
From 2015 to 2016, she was invited as a visiting professor at the
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. She is the
first Chinese professor at the ETH School of Architecture.
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn
Co-ordinator
Philip Fung
Partnership
Royal Institute of British Architects
( RIBA )
5 Sept 2018
18 Oct 2018
29 Nov 2018
5 Dec 2018
25 Feb 2019
21 March 2019
11 April 2019
2 May 2019
Other Activities
Coup De Grace
Yu Ting
Typological Rural
Zhang Lei
Learning from Hong Kong:
In Search of a New Urban Dynamics
Gary Chang
COSMOS: Spinney (Mixed Forests) / Universe
Liao Weili
Of Land and People: A Decade in China
Liu Yuyang
Interactive with Nature Through Architecture
Li Xinggang
Invisible Architecture:
Learning from 7-Eleven and Illegal Architecture
Roan Ching Yueh
The Garden of Forking Paths
Doreen Liu
The lecture series is intended to let students understand the practice
of contemporary Chinese architects. We invited architects from China,
Hong Kong or Taiwan and they are all emerging architects with excellent
practice and design theory. The lecture is not only sharing their design
works but also the methodology behind: how architect responses to the
context? what challenges and limitations for practicing architecture in
China? Through the lectures, students shall have better understanding
on how they plan their careers in the future.