On May 27th, despite a warned high record of the temperature in Guangzhou, more than 800 audiences were crowded into the international lecture hall of Liwu Building for the speech of “Smallness” given by the famous architect and educator, Prof. Yung Ho Chang.
Prof. Chang gave a lecture about the development of his design methodology and philosophy. From exquisite jewelries, artware, furniture to interior design and architecture, he explained the smallness in daily life, an attitude and a return to the subject of architecture design. The awareness of smallness as a basic designing methodology will ask architects to concern about materials and structures as well as the balance and harmony of architecture. The awareness of smallness in urban scale leads to the importance of urban grid and density. After the lecture, Prof. Chang answered the questions raised by audiences patiently.
Yung Ho Chang is a Chinese-American architect and Professor of MIT Architecture, Tongji University and Peking University. He studied at the Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) before moving to the US. Then he received his M. Arch from UC. Berkeley. He had served as the Kenzo Tange Chair Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design, also formerly served as the Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT. In 2011, he was appointed as a jury member of Pritzker Architecture Prize.