Lecture from John Lin and Olivier Ottevaere
 
time: 2015-07-27

Title: 1 to 1 TEACHING and MAKING
Speaker: John Lin and Olivier Ottevaere(Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong)
Time: Dec. 19, 2:40pm-5:00
Venue: Lecture Hall, Shaw Building of Humanities, SCUT North Campus
Organizer: School of Architecture, SCUT
DESCRIPTION:
This talk is about teaching through making, the process of making, and the making of 1 to 1. At scale 1 to 1, architecture is realized and it is no longer anticipation, no longer a model, no longer a study. These studios and projects explore possibilities with students arising from the challenges of 1 to 1 projects. Not only does 1 to 1 provide distinct pedagogical opportunities the concept of the design and build configures the process in unique ways. The work presented seeks to find a 1 to 1 relationship between teaching and making.
BIOGRAPHIES:
John Lin is an architect based in Hong Kong and currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong. His research concerns the process of urbanization in rural areas with a focus on the development of Chinese villages. His recent projects include the design of several school buildings, a village community center, a hospital and a sustainable house prototype in China. Located primarily in rural areas they integrate local and traditional construction practices with contemporary technologies. The projects coordinate between Chinese and Hong Kong universities, education bureaus, ministries of construction, and local governments along with NGO’s and charity organizations. He has taught previously at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the 2010 recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award at The University of Hong Kong.
Olivier Ottevaere is an architect of Belgian origin, who graduated with a degree in Architecture from the Cooper Union in New York and with an MSc in adaptive architecture and computation from the Bartlett in London. He has practised in New York, Lisbon and London and has taught design studios in Denmark, the UK and for the last five years at the EPFL in Switzerland. In 2010, he also was a unit master at the Architectural Association in London. His interests reside in the conception of space in architecture driven by a hybrid approach between digital and physical design explorations. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong and continues developing design works under his initials- double(O).