Megablock

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.

Studio Midterm Review
Megablock Urbanism: Alternatives for Large-Scale Development in China


Location: New Museum, Urban China Exhibit
5 March 2009
2pm - 6pm

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.