Urbanism Of The Southern China Metropolis
Presenters / Panelists
Eunsook CHOI
Director, KPF, New York
Eunsook Choi is an architectural designer and a managing director with a diversity of experience, including retail, residential, office, and institutional projects, throughout Europe, the United States and Asia. Since joining Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in 1996, she has worked on both the design and management aspects of many high profile projects and competition winning designs.
GAO Yan
Associate Professor, Future Human Habitat, Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen; Principal Architect, HCD-iDEA Design & Research, Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Emerging Pragmatic Design based on the Interpretation of Chinese Modernity Gao received B.Arch at the Tsinghua University and M.Arch at the AA School, and current a PhD candidate in the HDR Program at RMIT. His past academic positions include a Program Director of BJ AA Visiting School, and a professoriate position at Department of Architecture of HKU. Gao’s research focuses on investigating and theorizing design methodologies and techniques for the practice of contemporary architecture and urbanism. Gao is a founding Committee Member of Digital Architecture Design Association in China and is regarded as one of the academic pioneers in this realm. Gao is also a qualified architect in the United Kingdom. As the co-founder of iDEA Design & Research Office in HK and SZ, he has won numerous international design awards, and received 40 Under 40 Award winners in 2014. Gao’s architectural practice addresses the future uncertainties under the rapid development in China and often discovers design concepts from the investigation of complex project context.
LI Shiqiao
Weedon Professor in Asian Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
Shiqiao Li is Weedon Professor in Asian Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, where he teaches history, theory, and design of architecture, and directs PhD in the Constructed Environment Program. He is author of Understanding the Chinese City (2014), Architecture and Modernization (2009, in Chinese) and Power and Virtue, Architecture and Intellectual Change in England 1650-1730 (2006).
Esther LORENZ
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Virginia.
Esther Lorenz is a licensed architect and academic, and an assistant professor at University of Virginia. Her work explores the social, cultural, political, and economic preconditions of architecture, and the mutual effects between architectural and urban formations and cultural practices, social relations and space perception, with a focus on Chinese Urbanization and the city of Hong Kong. With Shiqiao Li, she is the editor of Kowloon Cultural District: An Investigation into Spatial Capabilities in Hong Kong (mccm, 2014) and author of Typological Drift: Emerging Cities in China (AR+D, forthcoming 2021).
Jeffrey RAVEN
Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology.
Raven is a practicing architect-urbanist and owner of RAVEN A+U, a professional practice with a focus on U.S. and international projects and knowledge transfer; he has carried out projects in the Arabian Gulf, India, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States, including low-carbon communities, green buildings, and smart growth. Raven contributes to the development of U.S. and international guidelines and metrics of sustainability and resilience, including STAR Communities, the Global EcoDistrict Protocol, McKinsey's Green Districts, and the Urban Land Institute Technical Assistance Panel. His work expands on the traditional influence of architect-urbanists by bridging climate science, policy, and design practice.
David Grahame SHANE
Adjunct Professor in Urban Design, Columbia University GSAPP
David Grahame Shane studied at the Architectural Association, London (AA Dipl 1969),and at Cornell for an M.Arch (Urban Design 1972) and an Architectural and Urban History PhD (1978) with Professor Colin Rowe. He taught at the AA in the 1970’s for Alvin Boyarsky and at Bennington College, before starting at Columbia in the 1980’s, teaching in the Urban Design program since 1991. He has lectured widely and published in Europe, USA, Latin America and Asia. He is the author of Recombinant Urbanism: Conceptual Modeling in Architecture, Urban Design and City Theory (2005) and Urban Design Since 1945; a Global Perspective (2011). He coedited “Sensing the 21st Century City: Close-Up and Remote” (Architectural Design 2005) with Brian McGrath. Both of his books have been translated into Chinese and he has published, taught and studied in East Asia in the last 20 years."Chinese Rapid Urbanization and the Metacity" (2015) and “A Short History of Hong Kong Malls and Towers” (2016) appeared in edited anthologies. “Great Bay Public Space: a Century of Continuity and Change in the of the Pearl River Delta 1920-2020” will appear in a forthcoming anthology. “Notes Towards an Intellectual Biography of Colin Rowe” will appear in the forthcoming Rowe/Rome volume, The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe.
Tom VEREBES
Professor, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology
Tom Verebes, Ph.D., is the director of his own practice, OCEAN CN Limited, based in New York and Hong Kong. His former academic roles include serving as associate dean for academic affairs at New York Tech from 2018 to 2020, associate dean for teaching and learning as well as associate professor at the University of Hong Kong, co-director of the Design Research Lab at the AA in London, and most recently before joining New York Tech as the founding provost of Turenscape Academy. In addition, Verebes served as a guest professor at Akademie der Buildenden Künste ABK Stuttgart from 2004 to 2006, and has held visiting professor roles at University of Pennsylvania, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse University, RMIT, Singapore University of Technology & Design SUTD, and University of Tokyo. He has directed AA Visiting School programs, including the AA Shanghai Summer School for 12 consecutive years, as well as AAVS Xixinan and AAVS Shenzhen.
XU Weiguo
Executive Dean, Future Human Habitat, Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen
Professor and former Chair of Architecture Department, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. Executive Dean of Future Human Habitats Research Institute in Tsinghua SIGS. Director of the DADA. Professor Xu is a pioneer architect who has been active internationally in the field of digital design and digital fabrication for many years. He has devoted many excellent researches and practical projects to the innovation of architecture and construction, such as robotic masonry construction systems, concrete 3D printing, AI form finding, big data in architecture among other areas of his work. One of his prominent works – 3D printed concrete bridge is listed as the world’s longest 3D-printed concrete pedestrian bridge. Professor Xu has published more than 140 papers and 17 books. A series of his research projects have been funded by NSFC. He has lectured worldwide, was a Visiting Scholar at MIT in 2007, and taught at SCI-Arc and USC in 2011-2012. He had curated the DADA series events in 2013, and co-curated the Architecture Biennial Beijing in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010.
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