Abstract:
Due to Lingnan’s unique geography, climate, history and culture, and close economic relation with the outer world, Lingnan architecture is an important part of the history of Chinese modern architecture. From the 1970s to the 1980s, with China’s turn toward reform and opening, international hotels in the Lingnan area became an important booming typology, with different design explorations such as adapting to subtropical climate, introducing traditional Lingnan gardens, as well as Modernism. This symposium takes international hotels in the Lingnan Region as an entry point to discuss its typology history and design concept development, and brings important insights into their relationship to the political, economic, and diplomatic context during the transitional period, and links Lingnan architecture and Cosmopolitanism from a new perspective.

Schedule: (120 mins in total)
Part I Introduction 15mins
Part II Panel Speech 75 mins
Part III Discussion and Q&A 40 mins

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Organizer:
Harvard FAS CAMLab

Academic Convenor:

LI Shiqiao
Weedon Professor in Asian Architecture, Architecture + Architectural History,
Director of the PhD in the Constructed Environment Program, School of Architecture, University of Virginia

Speakers:

PENG Changxin
Professor, South China University of Technology School of Architecture
Dean, South China University of Technology School of Architecture

FENG Jiang
Professor, South China University of Technology School of Architecture
Director of Architectural History and Culture Research Center, South China University of Technology School of Architecture

Cole ROSKAM
Associate Professor, Architectural History, Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong

Discussants:

Jeffrey W. CODY
Former Senior Project Specialist, Building & Sites Department, Getty Conservation Institute

WU Jiang
Former Vice-President of Tongji University
Honorary Fellow, College of Fellow
Academician of the French Academy of Architecture

TONG Ming
Principal Architect, TM Studio
Professor, Southeast University School of Architecture

Moderators:

ZHANG Qin
Associate, Harvard CAMLab
Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

CHANG Chin-Wei
Ph.D. Candidate in Architectural and Urban History & Theory, the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Research Associate, Harvard CAMLab

Interpreter:

ZHU Ning
Researcher, Harvard CAMLab

Symposium in both Chinese and English with Simultaneous Interpreting.

This virtual Event is open to the public with registration. It will be recorded and the edited version will be released to the public online, or in other forms on the Harvard CAMLab platform.