Beijing

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.

Research in Flux: Investigative Strategies for Architecture & Urbanism in China
流动 - 研究: 中国城市与建筑的研究方法及策略


March 16, 2010, 13:30 – 18:30
CAFA Art Museum Auditorium, Beijing


Introduction by Jeffrey Johnson (GSAPP)
杰夫里约翰逊教授介绍活动


Dean Mark Wigley (GSAPP) and Vishaan Chakrabarti (GSAPP) followed by discussion with Lü Pinjing (Dean, CAFA SoA), Wang Huangsheng (Director, CAFA Art Museum) & Xu Weiguo (Prof., Tsinghua)
哥伦比亚大学建筑学院院长马克维格理教授特约讲座
对话：吕品晶(中央美术学院建筑学院院长)，王璜生(中央美术学院美术馆馆长)、徐卫国(清华大学建筑学院教授)


Architectural Research & Beyond: Presentations and discussion
Che Fei (CU-Architecture), Fan Ling (CAFA), Han Tao (CAFA), Tat Lam (China Lab), Liang Jingyu (Approach Architecture), Laurence Liauw (CUHK), Shi Jian (IS-reading), Jonathan Solomon (HKU), Wang Fei (CAA)
超越建筑调研: 演讲和讨论
车飞（超城建筑），范凌（中央美术学院），韩涛（中央美术学院），林达（中国实验室），梁井宇（场域建筑），廖维武（香港中文大学），史建（一石文化），乔纳森所罗门（香港大学），王飞（中国美术学院）

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SUMMER 2009

June 15–July 10.
The four-week workshop will take place in Beijing, China, and will build on a number of research topics on large-scale development established during the previous China workshops as well as expand into new territories of urban investigation.

SPRING 2009

Megablock to Metablock from China Lab on Vimeo.


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.

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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Video of the event will be posted soon.