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

This summer, six GSAPP students participated in a joint international workshop with China Lab, The Central Academy of Fine Arts and Chinese University Hong Kong. The twenty-student workshop focused its research on South Beijing, historically an underdeveloped region of the city that will soon be rapidly transformed into a densely-urbanized link with the city of Tianjin. By using South Beijing as a case study, the workshop proposed critical alternatives to the current trend of peri-urban expansion in China.

How can industrial areas be integrated into new residential developments? Is it even possible for secondary industries and residential blocks to coexist?

As Jiading and other industrial sites around Shanghai are transformed into residential superblocks, a new model for higher-density, hybrid land use and sustainable urban development is needed. This summer, Columbia GSAPP/China Lab researchers have been invited by the Jiading district government to work on a strategy report for the interaction of existing and future industrial sites with a new large-scale residential development.

June 9 - July 4

Participating teams: USC School of Architecture, Beijing Urban Planning Committee, Tsinghua University, Columbia University, Seoul National University

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Columbia + USC Joint Summer Workshop 2008, Beijing

The June 2008 workshop has concluded with the presentation of the Columbia team's proposal, 'Mega-Block to Meta-Block'. A publication documenting the site research and proposal is forthcoming.

Research in Flux: Investigative Strategies for Architecture & Urbanism in China

CAFA Art Museum Auditorium, Beijing

Introduction by Jeffrey Johnson (GSAPP)

Dean Mark Wigley (GSAPP) and Vishaan Chakrabarti (GSAPP) followed by discussion with Lv Pinjing (Dean, CAFA SoA), Wang Huangsheng (Director, CAFA Art Museum) & Xu Weiguo (Prof., Tsinghua)

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January 17 - February 12, 2010 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. (Monday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.)

Landgrab City

Joseph Grima, Jeffrey Johnson, José Esparza

December 2009 - January 2010

2009 SZ/HK Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture

SPRING 2009

GSAPP Advanced Studio VI

Critic: Jeffrey Johnson

TA: Mercy Wong

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

2009 SZ/HK Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture

Make-The-Most-Of-It Urbanism

Thoughts on Post-Generic City Scenarios in Shenzhen

Moderators:

Jeffrey JOHNSON, Doreen Heng LIU

Participants:

Fabrizio Gallanti, Eric XU, FENG Yuan, Joseph Grima, Dan Wood, David Gianotten, LI Xiangning, JIANG Jun, MENG Yan