Melody YIU
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14-15 May 2021 | Organizing Team & Session 2 Moderator International (online) symposium with over 20 scholars and practitioners to share their work in 6 sessions around the topic of placemaking and “making place”. <link> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5was-uwjF_TkYZKiPveTzA Organized and chaired by: Professor Francesco Rossini | School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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30 Mar – 1 Apr 2021 | Tour Coordinator During the conference, a series of architecture and urbanism related educational tours will be organised to introduce to participants to noteworthy highlights from the host city. These tours will be organised via Zoom and streamed live from roaming locations in Hong Kong. <conference link> Day 1…
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The Cultural Centre is a new building and institution typology developed during the post-war European welfare state governance, where culture was regarded as a social instrument with same standing as sanitation or education. Public building is an embodiment of the policy, and the physical space often reflect the institutional intention. With the intention to provide…
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Lecture 2 | elective course arch5131D “Mapping.Drawing.Thinking” at School of Architecture, cuhk | 19 Jan, 2021 The following three lectures will review development of cartography since 19th century, asking what is the purpose of maps as a medium, and how mapping as a tool is used in architecture and urban design. Following the introductory talk,…
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Lecture 1, elective course arch5131D “Mapping.Drawing.Thinking” at School of Architecture, cuhk | 12 Jan, 2021 This session will be an introduction of how we read the city through maps and how it is used as a tool to understand social conditions. James Corner’s 2011 article The Agency of Mapping stated the potentiality of the maps and mapping…
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Since the time of Enlightenment, cultural activities and its institution has played an important role in the formation of modern democratic society. Museums, theatres and cultural centres were perceived to be the public space that engage people in civil society, although nowadays they are in competition with market forces that produce other urban public spaces…
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arch1002 | CUHK School of Architecture | lecture/seminar course for undergraduate students in Social Science Faculty. This course will introduce basic ideas about what makes urbanity and how to understand cities, open to students with diverse background but a common interest in cities. Initiated from an architecture-urbanism perspective, it would cover material across disciplinary boundary,…
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The state-support cultural development in Hong Kong can be understood to begin from the post-war period in the late 20th century. With an influx of immigrants from mainland China since the 1950s, the population of Hong Kong has reached two million, for which increasing effort was placed on social provision by the colonial government, mainly…
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Cultural architecture is usually discussed in terms of its formal aesthetic or symbolic meaning, and the actual experienced space receive less attention than the exterior imagery. Urban experience is often studied in social science, although only with marginal connection to the design and programming of architectural space. Therefore, a renewed perspective to look at the…
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Arch2111/2112 | 2020-22 | Tutors: Kelly Chow (coordinator), Han Man, Leon Xu, Melody Yiu This studio for undergraduate year 2 students explores creative process, the realms of imagination, art and design practices through viewing, experiencing, reading and, ultimately, producing form. Skills of representation and fabrication are introduced in the context of the development of each…
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