Venue: Multi-function Hall, 1/F, Shenzhen Civic Center
Time：8th, Dec 16:30-18:30
Moderator：Ole Bouman
Guests：Bert de Muynck，Brendon McGetrick，Zhu Pei，Zhu Xiaofeng，Zhang Ke，Alexander Sverdlov

In collaboration with NAi, SZHKB presents a brief lecture by Ole Bouman to be followed by a conversation between international architects on NAi’s exhibition ‘Architecture of Consequence’. Taking this project–which addresses a variety of themes ranging from alternative means of food production and energy policy to the need for social cohesion and the recalibration of economic value–as its departure point, the conversation will focus on the turn from spatial to social tasks and examines the potential for architecture’s value and role in resolving societal issues.

Moderator

Ole Bouman has been director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) since April 2007. Before taking up that position he was editor-in-chief of the periodical Volume, a cooperative venture of Stichting Archis, AMO (the research bureau of OMA/Rem Koolhaas) and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University. He has curated a series of public events for the reconstruction of the public domain in cities that have been hit by disasters, such as Ramallah, Mexico City, Beirut and Prishtina. Bouman has been lecturing Design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.

Bouman is (co-)author of a.o. the encyclopaedia The Invisible in Architecture (1994) and Al Manakh (2007). As well as the manifestos RealSpace in QuickTimes (1996) and De Strijd om Tijd (2003). He has curated exhibitions for the Milan Triennale, Manifesta 3 and Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum. His articles have appeared in such periodicals as De Groene Amsterdammer, The Independent, Artforum, De Gids, Domus, Harvard Design Review, El Croquis, Arquitectura & Viva, and Proiekt Russia. Bouman regularly lectures at internationally acclaimed universities and cultural institutions.

Guests

Bert de Muynck is an architect and writer. He co-directs MovingCities. He has published in 15+ different countries and 30+ different magazines.During the past years MovingCities has conducted research, lectures and workshops in China, Israel, Macau, Sweden and Indonesia.In 2008 MovingCities conducted embedded architectural research in the context of the ORDOS100-project. URBAN CHINA#33 “Creative China | Counter-Mapping the Creative Industries” was guest-edited by Bert de Muynck, Mónica Carriço and dr. Ned Rossiter.

Brendan McGetrick is an independent writer, editor, and designer. His work has appeared in publications in over twenty countries, including Wired, Art Review, Domus, and Casa BRUTUS. His recent projects include the books Becoming (Ivory Press, 2008), MAD Dinner (Actar, 2008), and Urban China: Work in Progress (Timezone 8, 2009), as well as Eat Up, a magazine about consumption formatted as a table cloth. From 2002-2006, he served as head writer at the research studio AMO.

Pei Zhu educated at Tsinghua University and UC Berkley. Pei Zhu has given lectures at Tsinghua University (Beijing), Columbia University (New York), and Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, MIT, UC Berkley, etc. Pei Zhu founded Studio Pei-Zhu in 2005, a platform for researching the relationship between Chinese philosophy and contemporary architecture, an experimental practice dealing with future and tradition.

Zhu Xiaofeng graduated from Shenzhen University. He received a Master of Architecture degree in Harvard University in 1999. In 2004, he founded Scenic Architecture Office in Shanghai, whose works have received attention from worldwide architecture media, such as Taschen, Phaidon, Domus, Area, Time+ Architecture, IW Magazine, and Perspective. He has participated in the exhibition China Design Now in Victoria and Albert Museum(2008), 2007 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, the Chinese Contemporary Architecture Exhibition in the Netherlands Architecture Institute (2006), New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific 2008-2010 tour exhibition, etc.

Zhang Ke received a master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Design from School of Architecture, Tsinghua University and another in Architecture from Harvard University two years later. He founded Standard Architecture in 2001 whose major projects include Urban Backyard in Beijing, Wuyi Primary School Auditorium in Beijing, Wuhan CRland French-Chinese Art Center, Qingcheng Mountain Teahouse in Chengdu, Beijing Dongbianmen Ming Dynasty Relics Park and Yaluntzangpu Boat Terminal in Tibet.

Alexander Sverdlov graduated in Architecture at the Moscow Architectural Institute and got his Master of Excellence in Architecture degree at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam. He was an architect/project architect at Neutelings Riedijk Architects, OMA/AMO, West 8 and Architecten Cie in 2001-2007. He is currently a researcher at the Why Factory TU Delft.