Fall Lecture Series: Chinese Architecture

Title: Fall Lecture Series: Chinese Architecture
Location: Brown Auditorium in the Caroline Wiess Law Building, Rice University
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Description: Qingyun Ma
Dean, University of California School of Architecture
Principal, MADA s.p.a.m., Shanghai

Rice Design Alliance is pleased to announce its fall lecture series, “Chinese Architecture: 中国建筑,” and a special issue of Cite that will explore the impact of the thirty-year building explosion in China. To purchase tickets, please click here.

“The lecture series will be a great opportunity to see design being done in China in the context of tremendous growth,” says RDA board member and Chinese Architecture steering committee member Camilo Parra. A grant from the National Endowment for the Arts is supporting this unprecedented exchange of designers and scholars.

Houston also has experienced tremendous booms with further growth projected for the next 25 years to a population of 8.8 million. Like many Chinese cities, Houston has an industrial base and is planned through infrastructure, unconventional regulations, and public-private partnerships rather than traditional zoning methods. The Houston community can learn from China’s recent attempts to accommodate new buildings within the existing fabric of its global cities.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2011-10-19