Abstract

Moving beyond stylistic accounts, this research analyzes Chinese “Experimental Architecture” through the lenses of socio-cultural structures, cross-media networks, and knowledge practices, elucidating how it was identified and constructed as a collective formation through exhibitions, publications, and critical discourse. By comparing texts, drawings, paper architecture, and built works, it further examines how “experimentation” entered architects’ working processes and how design practice functioned as a site of knowledge formation.

Speaker Bio

Jiayue Qiu is a PhD candidate in architecture at Tongji University and a visiting student at Harvard FAS CAMLab. She received an M.Arch from Nanjing University and was a visiting student at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on experimental architecture, design research, and cultural discourses in contemporary Chinese architecture.

Event Information

• Free and open to the public
• April 24th (Friday)
• 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
• This is an in-person event.

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The event will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese.