A Tale of Two Utopias: Architectural Avant-Gardes and Contemporary Urbanism in Asia
Event details
| Date | 24.09.2015 |
| Hour | 11:45 › 13:00 |
| Speaker |
Zhongjie Lin, PhD Dr. Zhongjie Lin is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism and the Director of the Master of Urban Design program at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is also a co-founder of Futurepolis, an award-winning multi-disciplinary design practice. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and Abe Fellow among other research positions. He is an Honorary Professor of Xiamen University and a Visiting Professor of Tongji University. Dr. Lin’s research focuses on modern architectural avant-garde movements, theory and practice of urban design, and contemporary architecture and urbanism in East Asia. He is the author of Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan and Visions of the City, and a coauthor of Urban Design in the Global Perspective and The Making of a Chinese Model New Town. He received a Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory from the University of Pennsylvania in the U.S. and a Master of Architecture from Tongji University in China. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
This talk examines the reciprocal relationship between architecture and the changing social structure in contemporary Asia through a series of designs or visionary plans. It is based on two recent research projects, on Japanese Metabolist movement in the 1960s and the ongoing new town movement in China respectively, both driven by some utopian notions of architecture and society. The comparison and linkage of these two architectural phenomena reveals the contradictions between ideal and reality, vision and disillusion, order and freedom, and utopia and dystopia, and sheds a new light on the challenges and future of East Asian society.
Sandwiches will be served after the talk
Sandwiches will be served after the talk
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Michele Petochi
Contact
- Michele Petochi
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