Department of Architecture proudly presents:


Public Architecture by Design:
Politics, Economics and Comunity Participation in Designing Pubilic Buildings

Symposium
Organizers
Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, Tel: 2859-2133, Fax: 2559-6484
, Tel: 2802-0088, Fax: 2802-4364
Speakers:
Hans Kollhoff
Matthias Kohlbecker
Tao Ho
Edward Ho
Ada Wong
Rocco Yim
Albert Cheng
 
Moderators:
Branko Kolarevic
Desmond Hui
The symposium will address the roles that political, business, and professional communities, and the community at large, could and should play in the process of designing public architecture and public spaces. It will contribute to the current debates surrounding the public architecture in Hong Kong (Central Library, Museum of Contemporary Art, etc.), but in an expanded, international perspective.
 
Guest speakers from Germany will discuss the planning of Potsdamer Platz and other public places in Berlin, and will participate in the panel discussion with Hong Kong community leaders and prominent architects to address the past, present, and future of public architecture in Hong Kong.
 
(This symposium is held in conjunction with exhibition 'An Urban Experiment in Central Berlin: Planning Potsdamer Platz' at the University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong, open February 18 &endash; March 21, 1998, daily 9:30 &endash; 18:00, closed on March 16 and Sundays.)
 
 

 

Rayson Huang Theatre
University of Hong Kong
Saturday March 21,1998
14:00 - 18:30


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