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Thursday 11 Mar, join the conversation on Pandemic Socialites! Anthropologist Biao Xiang and architect Andong Lu will discuss changing mobilities, urbanities and social codes in Chinese society in light of the Covid-19 crisis, together dissecting contagion and confinement. The conversation will be chaired by Jingru Cyan Cheng and hosted by Royal College of Art School of Architecture.

Pandemic Socialites Pandemic Socialites. Biao Xiang and Andong Lu in conversation with Jingru (Cyan) Cheng.

Pritzker Prize-winning architects and educators Wang Shu & Lu Wenyu to discuss their architectural practice and educational experiments in China, this Friday 10 am GMT on zoom. Register 👇🏼.

Amateur Architecture: Possibilities of rural-urban co-existence in China Wang Shu & Lu Wenyu (Amateur Architecture Studio) and China Academy of Art School of Architecture in conversation with Jingru Cyan Cheng

AA Projective Cities Alumni Forum on Monday 19 Oct 3-6pm to discuss research by design practices at the intersection between academia, professional practice, activist work and policy making. 'Zoom' in! https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogramme/whatson/projective-cities-alumni-forum

The rice cake making tool for AA's Lunar New Year celebration took a train ride today from Hooke Park (where it was made) to the AA Bedford Square home. Look forward to beating some rice on Friday (24 Jan)! Event info: https://memberevents.aaschool.ac.uk/events/lunar-new-year/ -view

If you are in London, join us on the 24 Jan at the Architectural Association (AA)! 'Jury in Translation' that celebrates the wealth embedded in each different language in the production and dissemination of ideas, discourse, and debate in architecture, followed by a Lunar New Year celebration organised by the AA Chinese Alumni Group, exploring the theme of food as a universal language through ‘1000 Forms of Dumplings’.

AA | Jury in Translation + 1000 Forms of Dumplings - ACROSS Architecture Jury in Translation Language : Mandarin and English Event series: Architecture in Translation 24 Jan 2020, 2pm Lecture Hall, Architectural Association 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES 1000 Forms of Dumplings Celebrating 2020 Lunar...

Fieldoffice's lecture at the AA last Thursday. Truly inspiring talk from Huang Sheng Yuan. If you missed it, check lecture videos on the AA website. Making Places Yu-Hsiang Hung

An exciting lecture from Field Office, Taiwan at the AA next Thursday 17 Oct, to discuss an alternative form of architectural practice that is 'Living with the Sky, Water and Mountains'.

This is part of the New Canonical Histories lecture series at the AA that invites architects, artists and theorists who are expanding the traditional Western canon or rewriting history from a new perspective.

AA Lectures Online For 25 years, Fieldoffice Architects has been based in Yilan. Taking inspiration from the rivers, mountains, seas as well as the local communities, they approach their architectural practice with patience; reflecting on the natural and cultural landscape.

If in Hong Kong 6-7 May, don’t miss the ‘Adapting Villages’ at Chinese University of Hong Kong. A great lineup of practitioners and academics at the frontline of rural transformations in China and beyond. The ‘UK team’ includes Shin Egashira (AA), Ben Stringer (Westminster) and Jingru Cyan Cheng (RCA/AA).

https://www.adaptingvillages.com

This Friday afternoon at the AA - Representations/Investigations: Media in architecture, the territory and the urban, with David Burns, éva Le Roi, Maria Shéhérazade Giudici, Hamed Khosravi, Christina Varvia, Clara Oloriz, Xristina Argyros and Jingru Cyan Cheng.

Cyan will share her experiences in making one single scroll as a synthesis of her PhD by Design thesis. The talk is entitled Structured Ambiguity: Structured Ambiguity: Scroll Drawing as a Synthesis of Research.

Representations/Investigations: Media in architecture, the territory and the urban

This is the first of a series of public events by the MPhil Projective Cities to foster a transversal conversation and a creative dialogue across different parts and research in the AA.

https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=4026