TEACHING

  • Stage.Performance.City

    Introductory lecture for the 2021 summer elective “Cultural Landscape of the City” at School of Architecture, cuhk, a course to explore the cross-over of theatre and architecture through spatial exploration of the City as a stage of performance. I. What is “Cultural Landscape” of the City? When we talk about cultural architecture – the grand

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  • arch5131D | 202021T2 elective course for UG & MArch students. This course explores key ideas about cartography as a medium in architecture and urbanism. From conceptual mind-map to advance technology in urban data mapping, different ways of documentation and representation has been used to record our built environment. The abstraction of information through maps and

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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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  • Understanding Cities

    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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  • 2017/18 | Yr 2+3 Vertical Studio at University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China The Foundation Studio is complimented with short lectures to introduce basic concepts in design From Studio Project Brief: “Chinese cities are growing faster, denser, and ever more connected. However, as we experience in physical form these are mostly mega-block private property developments –

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  • Spring 2017 | Yr 3 Design Studio at Faculty of Environmental Art, China Academy of Art This option studio looks at the role of cultural buildings and its role as the Urban Living Room. The program of a cultural building at the site adjacent to West Lake aims to rediscover the sensitivity in spatial quality

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  • Foundation Studio

    2016/17 (tutor) & 2017/18 (coordinator) | Yr 1 Architecture Design Studio at University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China The Foundation Studio is complimented with short lectures to introduce basic concepts in design drawings and composition, intended to provide students knowledge in architectural design as well as practical help to their studio project and exercise. Student work

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