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.