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Conversation with Yung Ho Chang, Qingyun Ma, Ackbar Abbas, Doreen Heng Liu, and Mark Wigley

Date: February 16, 2008, 1-4 PM

Location: Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia University

Organized by: China Lab, GSAPP, Columbia University

During the past two decades, economic growth has fueled an endless stream of urban development. The seemingly infinite number of opportunities made available by this expansion has enabled the entire architectural and urban design world to participate in the perpetual processes of constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing the Chinese urban landscape. Never before, at this scale and sustained pace, has the world experienced such a project. While much focus has been placed on the influence of non-Chinese contemporary architecture and urbanism on this new landscape, Exporting China has invited four guests to discuss the potential reciprocating influence of contemporary Chinese architecture and urbanism on spatial practices worldwide.

Participants:

Yung Ho Chang

Principal Architect, Atelier Feichang Jianzhu

Professor and Head, Architecture Department, MIT

Professor and Founding Head, Graduate Center of Architecture, Peking University

Qingyun Ma

Dean of the USC School of Architecture and holder of the Della and Harry MacDonald Dean's Chair in Architecture

Founding Principal, MADA s.p.a.m. (strategy, planning, architecture, media), Shanghai, China

Ackbar Abbas

Professor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine

Doreen Heng Liu

Principal and Founding Architect, NODE Architecture, Guangzhou and Hong Kong

Mark Wigley

Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation