FEBRUARY 15-17, 2008
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MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
Thank you all for your submissions to the charrette. The level of participation and the quality of the entries has been phenomenal, and we are looking forward to presenting your projects to the jury.
Thanks again to everyone for your participation and amazing work. After much deliberation, the jurors have recognized the following projects. It should be noted that many additional projects received votes from the jurors and that the voting was very competitive.Jury comments on the winning schemes will be posted here shortly. The competition has also been submitted to Urban China Magazine for possible publication. Additional news on exhibitions and publications will be posted on this website in the coming month.
FALL 2008
Instructor: Jeffrey Johnson
During the past two decades, China's economic growth has fueled an unprecedented urban expansion. Never before, at this scale and sustained pace, has the world experienced such a project. This growth is projected to continue at an accelerated pace as more and more rural Chinese migrate to the urban areas. By 2030, China's urban population could balloon to almost 1 billion people, nearly double what exists today. This seminar will explore how the mechanisms of this rapid urbanization have created new urban models, and how the resultant forms and patterns might influence cities of the future as the world becomes ever more urbanized.
On June 23rd, 2008, Jeffrey Johnson, Director, and Tat Lam, lead researcher, presented China Lab's recent investigations to CAFA's School of Design.
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Monday, October 6, 2008 at 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall
Columbia University
Flash Urbanism: The Making of the Contemporary Chinese City
Neville Mars, Author of The Chinese Dream (010 Publishers, 2008) and founder of Dynamic City Foundation, Beijing
Laurent Gutierrez, Architect, MAP Office, Hong Kong
Joseph Grima, Author of Instant Asia (Skira Editore, 2008) and Director of Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
Weijen Wang, Hong Kong University, Curator of the 2005 Shenzhen Biennale or Urbanism/Architecture
Moderated by Jeffrey Johnson, Director of China Lab, GSAPP.
Monday, February 9, 2009 at 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall
Columbia University
Jeffrey Johnson, Director, will present China Lab's research at the Advancing Architectural Research debate on experimental research laboratories.
Debate Participants: Laura Kurgan, Jeffrey Inaba, Scott Marble, David Benjamin, Kazys Varnelis, Mabel O. Wilson
Monday, February 16, 2009 at 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall
Columbia University
CRISIS
Volume Magazine and Urban China: The Bootleg Edition
With Benjamin Godsill, New Museum; Joseph Grima, Storefront for Art and Architecture; Jeffrey Inaba, Volume; Jeffrey Johnson, China Lab; Jiang Jun, Urban China
A China Lab + C-Lab Volume + Urban China Event
Studio Midterm Review
Megablock Urbanism: Alternatives for Large-Scale Development in China
Location: New Museum, Urban China Exhibit
5 March 2009
2pm - 6pm
Sunday, 15 March 2008 / 13:00 -17:30
Main Auditorium, CAFA School of Design, Beijing
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
