Lecture 1.
Title: OPEN ReAction
Speaker: Architect Li Hu
Time: Monday, March 21, 2016, 19:30pm
Venue: The Reporting Hall on the second floor，Shaw Building of Humanities, SCUT
Organizer: School of Architecture, SCUT
Biography:
Li Hu, founding partner of OPEN Architecture, former director of Columbia University GSAPP’s Studio-X Beijing, and former partner of Steven Holl Architects.
Li Hu received his B. Arch. from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1996 and M. Arch. from Rice University in 1998. He worked at Steven Holl Architects from 2000 to 2010, and became a partner of the firm in 2005. During his time at SHA, Li founded and led the firm’s Beijing Office, and was responsible for the firm’s influential urban projects in Asia, including Linked Hybrid in Beijing, Vanke Center in Shenzhen, Raffles City in Chengdu and Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing. Linked Hybrid won the best tall building award in 2009; Vanke Center in Shenzhen was the first LEED Platinum Building in China and won AIA National Honor Award in 2011. Li left the partnership at Steven Holl Architects in 2011 to focus on the practice of OPEN Architecture with partner Huang Wenjing.
Li Hu was appointed director of Columbia University GSAPP’s Studio-X Beijing from 2009 to 2014, hosting its teaching, exhibition and academic activities. He lectures frequently at universities and cultural institutions in the U.S. and Asia. He is a visiting teacher for Columbia University and the University of Hong Kong. In 2002 he co-founded the independent Architectural magazine 32: Beijing/New York together with Steven Holl and Yungho Chang. Li Hu was awarded 2011 most creative icons by Outlook Magazine. In 2012, he was invited to be space category curator of the first China Design Exhibition hosted by Ministry of Culture, P.R. China. In 2014, he participated in the design of the Chinese Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, and was awarded “The Architect of the Year” by GQ Magazine.
Lecture 2.
Title: Liminal Cities: urban transformations
Speaker: Associate Prof. Peter Hasdell
Time: Monday, March 21, 2016, 21:00pm
Venue: The Reporting Hall on the second floor，Shaw Building of Humanities, SCUT
Organizer: School of Architecture, SCUT
Biography:
Peter Hasdell, Associate Professor in the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is the Discipline Leader of the Environment and Interior programme and Research Leader of the Design Ecologies collaborative research initiative focusing on social and participatory design. Architect, urbanist, public installation and interactive artist as well as academic, he is a graduate from the University of Sydney where he studied computer science, film theory and architecture followed by graduate studies at the Architectural Association in London. Peter has been an academic for 20 years and has taught in Architecture and Design schools including the Bartlett School in London, KTH Stockholm, Sweden, The Berlage Institute in the Netherlands, Columbia University NY, University of Manitoba, The Rural Studio in Alabama and Hong Kong University. He has taught with well-known architects and innovators including Sir Peter Cook, Raoul Bunschoten, Peter Salter, John Hejduk and Mark West and has been a core member of key research institutes including Chora Institute of Architecture and Urbanism in London and the Centre for Architecture Structures and Technology (C.A.S.T.) in Manitoba. He has initiated and founded research institutes including the Architecture and Urban Research Lab (A+URL) in Stockholm and Pneuma in Canada and has been recipient of numerous awards and grants including the European Union two times. His research focuses on the metabolic architecture on the scales of the city (city as a life form), and as architecture (interactive and responsive architectures). His practice D+A hq Ltd, HK conducts architecture and planning projects in China and SE Asia since 2007.
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