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Public Lecture | Vinu Daniel
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2023-04-04 18:16:05
Most landscapes are entirely artificial. There are so many imported plants there. They may look beautiful, but they don't feel they belong there. We started to understand that the swamps, pits, and other ecologies that we so often build over are more real and important than whatever we make on the c...
Public Lecture | Mies in Motion | Dietrich Neumann | TUE 28 MAR 2023 | 18:30 | KB419, Knowles Building, HKU
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2023-03-23 12:21:22
Inspired by the theme of the lecture series, this presentation will look at examples of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's architecture and furniture, which were designed specifically for bodies in motion and discuss the critical discourse around the notion of "flowing space," frequently associate...
Public Lecture | 2 Short Films as a Moving Language | Roan Ching-Yueh 阮慶岳 | FRI 24 MAR 2023 | 18:30 | KB419, Knowles Building, HKU
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2023-03-23 11:50:05
Andrei Tarkovsky's advice to young filmmakers: Sacrifice Yourself for Cinema. I didn't sacrifice but directed / produced 2 films to pay tribute to people I look up to (writer Chi Teng Sheng / 七等生 and architect Lee Chen Kuen / 李承寬). It's a non-architecture but a precious life lesson to sp...
Public Lecture | Trojan Horse, A Lecture | Jennifer Lee and Pablo Castro | FRI 17 MAR 2023 | 18:30 | KB419, Knowles Building, HKU
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2023-03-10 12:39:08
The Trojan Horse seduces and deceives in order to gain access to what is otherwise the purview of a certain class set on protecting its privilege. Acknowledging and pursuing that potential of architecture legitimizes the transgressions of limitations of practicality and "common sense" usua...
Public Lecture | Form, Content, and Total Design | Yung Ho Chang 張永和 | MON 13 MAR 2023 | 18:30 | KB419, Knowles Building, HKU
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2023-02-28 16:21:24
Through a range of projects of building as well as furniture, product, clothing, and other designs, attempts are made to redefine form as the deep framework that organizes structure and space rather than as figure or image, content as life scenarios rather than as functions, and total design as the ...
Public Lecture | Weaponized Craft | Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto | TUE 7 MAR 2023 | 18:30 | KB419, Knowles Building, HKU
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2023-02-20 17:48:09
Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture is an internationally recognized architecture office and design atelier founded in 1986 by Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto. The firm works across continents and scales with projects ranging from large scale cultural and infrastructural projects to detailed object, fu...
From Shelter to Digital Architecture - Practice of Atelier-3 第三工作室團隊工作簡述/從簡易庇護所到數位建築 | Hsieh Ying Chun 謝英俊
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2023-02-13 15:07:00
The easiest way to solve the problem of survival, the reconstruction of homes in the disaster area under the principle of sustainability, the concept and method of operation of resident participation, digital technology and object-oriented design, and the aesthetics that the designers care most.
Is It Truly Necessary?
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2023-02-02 11:57:08
Shingo Masuda (b. 1982) founded joint practice with Katsuhisa Otsubo (b. 1983), Shingo Masuda + Katsuhisa Otsubo in 2007 after graduating from the Musashino Art University respectively. Their solo exhibition entitled "Shingo Masuda + Katsuhisa Otsubo: Is It Truly Necessary?" was held at TO...
Backpack Housing | Exhibition
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2023-01-20 13:10:55
At its most complete, each Backpack provides a safe, private and well-appointed shelter, which can be reconfigured as loose furniture, partitioning systems, or storage if and when required. This exhibition sees the prototypical system redeployed and adapted to the residential exhibition space at PMQ...
The Lobby | Exhibition @ PMQ
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2022-12-07 17:28:28
As an inaugural collaboration between the Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC) and the HKU Department of Architecture, The Lobby is an outpost workspace, occupied by the HKAC Public Arts Team. Set up to reveal the complex process-driven art and cultural production, open office hours are created to cultivate...
Nail Salon | Exhibition @ PMQ
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2022-12-05 17:32:24
Nail Salon is supported by Design Trust Seed Grant and includes the collective works by the HKU students in the summer elective course led by the curators in 2022. Nail Salon explores the spatial implications of women's labour in Hong Kong to reflect on the future of feminist space in post-indus...
Public Lectures Series Fall 22
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2022-10-14 12:41:10
HKU Department of Architecture Fall 2022 Public Lecture Series Action/Reaction
Time: 6:30pm Venue: KB419, Knowles Bldg

Oct 25 Joanlin Au 歐中樑 Director, JA Design Architects Oct 28 Elva Tang and Claude Godefroy Founding Partner and Director, Henning Larsen Hong Kong Nov 4 Sara Klomps Directo...
HKU Architecture (AUHI) Spring 2021 Discussion Series: "Space, Time and Finding Home" (Speaker: Wong Hing-fan, Film Director)
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2021-03-17 12:52:13
23 March 2021 (Tuesday) 12:45pm - 2pm Via Zoom Meeting ID: 931-5864-5835 Link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/93158645835
"Spatial Justice" - HKU Architecture (AUHI) Spring 2021 Discussion Series (Speakers: Ada Wong, Wong Hing-fan, Christine Loh, Francis Lee)
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2021-02-22 11:29:47
Mar 4 & 23, Apr 13 & 20 12:45 - 14:00 Via Zoom
HKU Architecture Spring 2021 Public Lecture - From the Globe to the Ground: Terra Forma's Potential Cartographies by FRÉDÉRIQUE AÏT-TOUATI
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2021-02-22 11:08:34
26 February, 2021 (Friday) 18:30 - 19:30 (HKT) Via Zoom

[Book Launch] Introducing: Short Essays on Influential Thinkers and Designers in Architecture by David Erdman
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2021-02-18 11:49:45
March 1, 2021 (Monday) 6:30pm - 7:30pm Via Zoom
HKU Architecture Spring 2021 Public Lecture Series: Piecing a City Together by Taking its Objects Apart (Speaker: Shin Egashira)
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2021-02-16 15:47:41
23 February 2021 (Friday) 18:30 - 19:30 (HKT) Via Zoom
HKU Architecture Spring 2021 Public Lecture Series: Drawing Out Knowledge | Speakers: Deane Simpson & Theo Deutinger
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2021-02-10 12:46:39
19 Feb 2021 (Friday) | 6:30pm - 7:30pm | Via Zoom
Department of Architecture | Future Cities | Spring 2021 Lunchtime Seminar Series | John So
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2021-02-01 14:25:24
09-Feb-2021 (Tuesday) 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Via Zoom
FREE SPACE. Urban design as a political tool.
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2021-01-26 17:23:05
Public Lecture by Olga Aleksakova & Julia Burdova
HKU Department of Architecture : "Reformative Coral Habitats" Exhibition @ PMQ
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2021-01-04 14:44:51
11-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2021 10:00 am - 8:00 pm
Public Lecture : 'From Geography to Technology - are bricks any different than wine' by Francoise Fromonot and Guillaume Othenin-Girard
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2020-11-20 11:06:54
27 November, 2020 (Friday), 18:30 - 20:30
'From Utzon to Leplastrier - the edge of the possible to framing the view' by Catherine Lassen and Angela Pang
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2020-10-22 15:50:40
30 October, 2020 6:30pm-8:30pm, Zoom
'The Agencies of Space / Places of Performance in the Anthropocene' by Joanna Mansbridge
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2020-10-22 10:38:06
29 October, 2020 | 12:45nn - 2pm | Zoom
ZOOMIN: Visiting Professor Talks @ HKU Architecture - by Jing Liu and Sony Devabhaktuni
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2020-05-08 16:01:32
As the conception of space is fundamental to the discipline of architecture, SO - IL has ruminated on the possible shapes of our time through the architecture projects of all scales and temporal limits. In this lecture, founder Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg will discuss SO-IL's projects within t...
ZOOMIN: Visiting Professor Talks @ HKU Architecture - Špela Videčnik and Juan Du
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2020-05-05 10:01:03
Inspiring Limitations May 12, 2020 18:30 - 20:00 (HKT)
'DenseCity' Discussion Lecture
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2020-01-24 13:17:13
The lecture will explore the impacts of density on architectural design through a series of case studies. Tracing a line of inquiry from the urban to the architectural, the built to the speculative, it will provoke alternative understandings of the architectural object and showcase the ways in which...
Public Lecture : 'Counter Investigations' by Eyal Weizman | 7 February 2020│18:30│KB419, HKU
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2020-01-24 12:44:08
Counter Investigations presents a selection of recent investigations undertaken by the agency into incidents occurring in different contexts worldwide. In parallel, the lecture outlines concepts that raise related historical, theoretical and technological questions.
[HKU Architecture] M+ Matters: Archigram Cities | 12-13 February 2020 | HKU
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2020-01-22 12:07:42
M+ Matters: Archigram Cities - It's Archigram! Organised with the Faculty of Architecture, HKU Date: 12 February 2020 Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm Venue: Grand Hall, HKU M+ Matters: Archigram Cities Symposium Organised with the Faculty of Architecture, HKU Date: 13 February 2020 Time: 9:30am - 6:00pm V...
HKU Architecture Public Lecture : 'A Participatory Architecture Told From Six Strategies' by Giancarlo Mazzanti
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2019-10-31 09:24:02
Giancarlo Mazzanti has dedicated his professional life to improve the quality of life through the design of the environment and the idea of social equality. This lecture presents six strategies represented in six projects of ours that we developed so we can create an open and participative architect...
HKU Architecture: 'Challenges in the Conservation of Modern Architecture in Brazil' by Nivaldo Vieira de Andrade Jr.
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2019-10-24 09:50:13
Nivaldo Vieira de Andrade Jr. is a Brazilian architect and urban designer. He received his PhD in Architecture and Urban Design from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil. He is a Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of UFBA and currently the National President of the Instit...
2019 HKU Architecture Artist-in-Residence - Perry Kulper | 28 October - 1 November 2019 | Knowles Building, HKU
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2019-10-23 10:51:09
HKU Architecture Artist-in-Residence - Perry Kulper
HKU Architecture - "Reconciling African Space Making with the Transforming African Cities" by Peter Rich│25 October 2019│18:30│KB419, HKU
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2019-10-18 11:28:38
Africa's multi mythological constructs, which are often different from our own, underpin how we access its multiple world views. Peter Rich will demonstrate in his own work and attempt to build better neighborhoods and communities and the use of community facilities as a catalyst to potentially trig...
HKU Architecture - "In Conversation with Lee Bul"│3 October 2019│19:00│KB419, HKU
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2019-09-25 15:16:08
Department of Architecture Fall 2019 Public Lecture Series In Conversation with Lee Bul Date: October 3, 2019 (Thursday) Time: 19:00 - 20:15 Venue: KB419, Knowles Building, HKU Language: Conducted in English with simultaneous interpretation in Cantonese Speakers: Lee Bul, artist Cole Roskam, Associa...
HKU Architecture - Public Lecture "The City and Its Public Space Dialogue (2)" by Roan Ching-Yueh & Li Juchuan
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2019-09-23 12:02:03
Department of Architecture Fall 2019
Public Lecture Series The City and Its Public Space Dialogue (2)
Date: September 27, 2019 (Friday)
Time: 18:30 - 20:30
Venue: KB419, Knowles Building, HKU
Speaker: Roan Ching-Yueh 阮慶岳
Lecture title: Awakening of the Citizens
Speaker: Li Juchuan 李...
HKU Architecture Degree Show 2019
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2019-06-17 10:32:25
Department of Architecture The University of Hong Kong Degree Show 2019 Exhibition Date: 15 June (Saturday) - 9 July 2019 (Tuesday) Time: 11am - 7pm Venue: 3/F, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong
HKU Architecture - Book Launch Party | 6pm, 14 June 2019
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2019-05-31 11:15:01
Department of Architecture The University of Hong Kong Book Launch Party From 'Crisis to Crisis: Debates on why architecture criticism matters today' Date: 14 June 2019 (Friday) Time: 6pm Venue: KB318, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong
'The Good Life' Book Presentation by Iñaki Ábalos, 9 April 2019
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2019-04-03 14:25:22
20 years after its first publication, The Good Life is re-edited and re-published into a new Chinese edition, with the joint effort between IÃaki Ãbalos, Su Chang and Luminocity. This presentation is about both the excitement and dismay in writing, editing and translating modernism in ...
"Choose Your Tower: Housing beyond Uniformity" by Winy Maas
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2019-03-26 11:15:22
Winy Maas explores the specific aspects of tower designs to consider the phenomenon of high-rise architecture as an invitation to designers, planners and politicians to envision and realize a more varied Hong Kong cityscape through a focused investigation of Hong Kongâs housing typologies and ...
"Architecture & Environment" by Kazuyo Sejima
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2019-03-25 13:02:39
Kazuyo Sejima received a degree in architecture at the Japan Women's University in 1981. In 1987 she opened her own studio in Tokyo and then in 1995, together with Ryue Nishizawa, she founded SANAA. In 2010 Kazuyo Sejima was appointed director of the Venice Biennale. In the same year, Kazuyo Sejima ...
"Resonances" by Alberto Veiga
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2019-03-22 09:25:13
Lecture Abstract Transcending the point in time at which our architecture emerges and establishes a temporal link between past, present and future it is a fundament in our way of understanding architecture. An architecture that aspires to belong to a place, preserving its singularity but at the same...
"Vital" by David Benjamin│26 March 2019│18:30│KB419, HKU
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2019-03-20 12:45:39
This lecture will describe each project as a prototype. Prototypes allow us to address today's urgent questions with today's available tools. They let us come up with radical ideas and develop them through making and testing. Our prototypes anticipate and welcome rapid change. They cultivate the des...
"Constructions on Sites and Paper" Public Lecture by Beate Hølmebakkk & Per Tamsen │22 March 2019│18:30│KB419, HKU
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2019-03-15 12:22:20
The lecture will be a presentation of selected projects by Manthey Kula. It will focus on built work, but also on one of the office's unbuilt "paper projects". Beate Hølmebakk will talk about Manthey Kula's approach to design and about how some of the professors from her own educati...
Professor Yung Ho Chang Public Lecture Series - III. Brick: Pushing Rationality & IV. South: Re-orienting Space (18/19 March)
Dept of Architecture
Uploaded on 2019-03-12 15:33:52
Brick: Pushing Rationality Following the logic of a particular material in design is almost a doctrine in architecture, but some architects think differently. Brick is used as specific case in discussion ; South: Re-orienting Space In terms of human habitation, the dichotomy of East & West is ge...
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