Megablock

Jeffrey Johnson presented some of the Lab's ongoing research on Megablock Urbanism at Harvard's GSD on November 19.

SUMMER 2011

Research from the 2011 Megablock Goes West Summer Workshop was exhibited at the 2011 Chengdu Biennale.

In the summer of 2011, four Columbia GSAPP students traveled to Chengdu and Xi'an to gather documentation of industrial restructuring and urban redevelopment, in collaboration with teams from Southwest Jiaotong University and the Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology.

PROJECT SITE

To explain a little bit about China Lab, we are a research unit at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. Our aim is to provide a platform for research on China and for the exchange of ideas—not only amongst ourselves, but with a broader, global community of thinkers—much like what we are doing here today. We want to promote, with our friends, the benefits of a collective global intelligence.
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Entries in the 2008 Megablock Charrette have been published in the 35th issue of Urban China Magazine, entitled "How to be Holistic?" and guest edited by Neville Mars.