Chinese Architecture

Chinese Architecture from the 1990s to the present

Unpacking the contemporary

Chinese Architecture from the 1990s to the present

Prof Yung Ho Chang / Prof Kenneth Frampton / Prof Michael Hays / Dr Eduard Koegel / Prof Hua Li / Prof Cole Roskam / Prof Eunice Seng / Prof Junyang Wang / Prof Weijen Wang / Prof Tao Zhu / Prof Xiaofeng Zhu

Despite the fact that a great many significant buildings have been produced by architects practising in China in the past decades, contemporary Chinese architecture is still largely unknown globally, outside a small circle of observers and academic institutions. This symposium is the first of a series at the University of Hong Kong, with a panel of scholars and practitioners, both international and local, to dig, dissect, discuss, and debate about the conditions and implications of this relatively nascent architectural phenomenon.

The subject of contemporary Chinese architecture inevitably brings up a Pandora’s box of questions, led by the one of: how is ‚contemporary Chinese architecture‘ defined? While this forum is meant to keep a long-waited conversation open, the following key-words/phrases are suggested as some of the points of departures.

Museum of handcraft paper

Video: Hua Li, TAO

Museum of Handcraft Paper – HUA LI, TAO/Trace Architecture Office

China Museum Aedes

Museums in China

ZÀI XĪNG TǓ MÙ

Sixteen Chinese Museums

Fifteen Chinese Architects

VIDEO LINK here

ALL 16 Videos here

An Aedes catalogue will be published for the exhibition.

An exhibition as part of the ANCB-Program:
THE MUSEUM OF THE 21st CENTURY
Content-Form-Impact
A collaboration with Zumtobel

 

Exhibition: 27 August – 13 October 2016

 

Location: Aedes Architecture Forum
Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin

 

Opening Programme: Friday, 26 August 2016

 

Opening Lectures: 4pm at ANCB, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin

Curator Eduard Kögel will give an introduction to the exhibited projects. Qilan Shen, art critic and curator from Shanghai, will speak about the challenges of the Chinese museums and how this compares with the German museum landscape.