Emerging
Typologies in the City Region
2016 UVA Architecture in China Program Exhibition
This exhibition showcased the works of the UVA Architecture China Program in summer 2016 that identified, documented, and analyzed emerging architectural and urban typologies in two of China’s most dynamic city-regions, the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. With a combined population of 260 million people, both delta areas are made of clusters of cities and towns that provide vast design, production, and consumption capacities. Perhaps the most fascinating features to architecture and urbanism are new realities in city-making that demand knowledge and insights. We are witnessing the making of an urban age in which not only half of the world’s population lives in cities, but also the very idea of the city is changing. Architecture and urbanism in China present rare opportunities to observe mutations of the city in response to contemporary world political and economic structures, as they take place.
Program Directors: Shiqiao Li, Esther Lorenz
Southeast University partner: Li Hua
UVA students: Meredith Blake, John Devine, Scott Getz, Rebecca Good, Meng Huang, Karilyn Johanesen, Boning Luo, McKenzie Rist, Shannon Ruhl
Southeast University students: Guo Yiwen, Han Yalan, Huang Enze, Liu Tengxiao, Meng Zhe, Petr Preininger, Wang Qing, Xing Yifan, Ye Zhi, Yu Yunwang
2016 UVA Architecture in China Program Exhibition
This exhibition showcased the works of the UVA Architecture China Program in summer 2016 that identified, documented, and analyzed emerging architectural and urban typologies in two of China’s most dynamic city-regions, the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. With a combined population of 260 million people, both delta areas are made of clusters of cities and towns that provide vast design, production, and consumption capacities. Perhaps the most fascinating features to architecture and urbanism are new realities in city-making that demand knowledge and insights. We are witnessing the making of an urban age in which not only half of the world’s population lives in cities, but also the very idea of the city is changing. Architecture and urbanism in China present rare opportunities to observe mutations of the city in response to contemporary world political and economic structures, as they take place.
Program Directors: Shiqiao Li, Esther Lorenz
Southeast University partner: Li Hua
UVA students: Meredith Blake, John Devine, Scott Getz, Rebecca Good, Meng Huang, Karilyn Johanesen, Boning Luo, McKenzie Rist, Shannon Ruhl
Southeast University students: Guo Yiwen, Han Yalan, Huang Enze, Liu Tengxiao, Meng Zhe, Petr Preininger, Wang Qing, Xing Yifan, Ye Zhi, Yu Yunwang