Spring 2016 Series

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Lecture Title:

Garden City, Mega City – Strategies for the 21st Century Sustainable City

Speaker:

Wong Mun Summ
Founder, WOHA Architects

Date/Time:

20-Jan-16 / 6:30pm

Venue:

KB726, 7/F, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong

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Lecture Title:

The Impact of Big Projects on the City

Speaker:

Kees Christiaanse
Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich;
Founder, KCAP Architects & Planners

Date/Time:

29-Jan-16 / 6:30pm

Venue:

KB419, 4/F, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong

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Opening Forum:

Custom Made: Contemporary Norwegian Architectural Interventions

Speakers:

Halvor Weider Ellefsen
Karl Otto Ellefsen
Mirza Mujezinovic
Shi Yang

Date/Time:

19 Feb 2016 / 6:30pm

Venue:

KB419, 4/F, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong

Exhibition

Exhibition CUSTOM MADE – Naturalizing Tradition

Date:

19 Feb 2016 – 2 Mar 2016

Venue:

K.K. Leung Concourse, The University of Hong Kong

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Lecture Title:

Transitions: Concepts + Drawings + Buildings

Speaker:

Christine Hawley
Professor of Architectural Design, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

Date/Time:

4-Mar-16 / 6:30pm

Venue:

KB419, 4/F, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong

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Lecture Title:

Dialogues in Space: Poetics of Place Specific Architecture

Speaker:

Wendell Burnette
Professor of Practice, Arizona State University;
Principal, Wendell Burnette Architects

Date/Time:

18-Mar-16 / 6:30pm

Venue:

KB419, 4/F, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong

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Speaker:

Wang Shu 王澍
Professor and Dean, Architecture School, China Academy of Art;
Principal, Amateur Architecture Studio2012 Pritzker Architecture; Prize Laureate

Date/Time:

31-Mar-16 / 7:00pm

Venue:

Rayson Huang Theatre, The University of Hong Kong

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Lecture Title:

Improvisations on the Land: Houses of Fernau+Hartman

Speaker:

Richard Fernau
Professor of Architecture Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley;
Founding Principal, Fernau+Hartman Architects

Date/Time:

1-Apr-16 / 6:30pm

Venue:

KB419, 4/F, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong

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Lecture Title:

The Intimacy of the Void

Speaker:

Ricardo Gordon
Founder, Bak Gordon Architects

Date/Time:

8-Apr-16 / 6:30pm

Venue:

KB419, 4/F, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong

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Lecture Title:

Architecture as the Embodiment of an Opera 一座建築就是一齣歌劇

Speaker:

Toyo Ito 伊東豊雄
2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate

Date/Time:

23-Apr-16 / 2:00pm

Venue:

Rayson Huang Theatre, The University of Hong Kong

 

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Lecture Title:

Reflections about Pioneering Sustainable Architecture

Speaker:

Thomas Herzog

Date/Time:

26-May-2016 / 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Venue:

KB419, 4/F, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong

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Kenneth Frampton Architectural Book Collection: A Symposium on Critical Architectural Histories

Speaker:

Kenneth Frampton
Ware Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University

Date/Time:

27-May-16 / 6:30pm

Venue:

KB419, 4/F, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong

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Symposium

A Symposium on Critical Architectural Histories: Kenneth Frampton Architectural Collection

Date/Time:

28-May-16 / 3:00pm

Venue:

KB419, 4/F, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong

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Lecture Cancelled:

A Roman New York

Speaker:

Diane Lewis
Professor, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union

Date/Time:

10-Jun-16 / 6:30pm

Venue:

KB419, 4/F, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong

* Please note this lecture has been cancelled

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All interested are welcome.

Additional Information:

• CPD Credit Hours and AIA CES Learning Unit Hours are offered to members of the HKIA and the AIA.
• All lectures are open to the general public.
• These lectures are co-sponsored by Ronald Lu & Partners (HK) Ltd. visiting lectureship in architecture.