BAU Congress ChinaAgenda of 2020

BAU Congress China 2020

Date

October 29th-31th, 2020
Address China International Exhibition Center (New Venue)  Hall W1, Beijing

Official sponsor

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About BAU Congress China

The important concurrent event of CADE architectural design expo is jointly organized by Bauwelt, an authoritative international architecture magazine, and Munich expo group, one of the world's leading international exhibition institutions, and its subsidiary in China, zoomlion (Beijing) international exhibition co., LTD.

The annual BAU Congress China international building technology conference, focusing on high-quality design, planning and construction, is an exchange and exhibition platform integrating innovative architectural ideas, high-quality architectural design, building materials and building technology for the rapidly developing Chinese market.

BAU Congress China will provide a high level of international experience exchange to provide feasible solutions for China's future architecture. The conference is not only a reflection of the overall construction market -- reflecting product innovation and industry prospects, but also can provide a new way of thinking for China's construction industry, which is currently facing many problems such as building quality, energy conservation, sustainable development and urban renewal.

BAU Congress China 2020 | The theme of the lecture & the conference guests continue to update on June, please look forward to!

Topic | ‘Urban Development, Recent Projects’

Beside the traditional urban planning, we are facing challenges in mega structures. All over the world, we are looking for answers in case of CO2 and energy consumption, sustainability in an urban context and the climate change. Today some urban structures are close to the collapse. The overheating, the transportation and the overloaded public transport systems challenges us to find  new concepts and solutions.

Markus Lauber
KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten/General Manager China
Intelligent urbanisation – Concepts of future-oriented city modules
Whether it is districts in a built context, places with a strong identity or the densification and expansion of urban structures with campus characteristics and sustainable mixed uses: Markus Lauber, General Manager China, uses current projects and designs to showcase examples of future-oriented city modules.

Steven Smit
Director MVRDV Asia
Future Proof Hybrid Urbanism
We live in radical times. MVRDV has always pioneered radical urban scenarios to match change and in particular fast change in the uniquely challenging Asian context.
The climate crisis places humanity, and therefore urbanism, at a critical pivot point in history. As we re-position our relationship with the earth’s biosphere, a new type of urbanism will evolve. MVRDV anticipates that the coming decade requires new, even pivotal, urban solutions: with urbanization speeding up, increased technical, virtual and ecological agency will work in tandem with shifts in human behavior. New types of sky and ground-scrapers are required to create new 3D networks of holistic spatial experiences.
Vanke 3D City in Shenzhen is an example of MVRDV Vertical Hybrid Urbanism that has grown out of the MVRDV ‘Three dimensional City’ and ‘Vertical Village’ research projects. The objective is to create maximum vibrancy and livability in the Future City.
Can the smart city also be the green city? With the proposal for a futuristic Tencent Solar Jungle Campus in Shenzhen MVRDV explored how a fusion between the natural and the synthetic allowed employees to feel simultaneously enveloped by technology and ecology.

Liu Yichun
Atelier Deshaus
Sensitive Urbanity
The speech will mainly focus on the architectural practices of Atelier Deshaus during the past two decades, and how they reflect the shift in China’s, especially Shanghai's urban growth from that of suburban sprawl to city-centre regeneration through architectural design.

Topic | ‘Urban Development, Transit-Oriented Development and Resilient Architecture‘

Urban planning and its results have changed dramatically twice in the 20th century due to changes in work (industrialisation, Athens Charter) and mobility (car-friendly city). Today, we face even greater challenges as both work and mobility shift again, this time simultaneously. Moreover, requirements for the necessary reduction of CO2 must be met. These conditions call for new approaches to urban planning and the creation of models for the future. Two central ideas face these challenges. One concept here is TOD – transit-oriented development – resulting in a dense, compact city, where business and residential spaces lie in close proximity to each other. The question here is how to repurpose existing city spaces and continue building up urban centres.

Doreen Heng Liu
NODE Architecture and Urbanism
From Infra-structure to InfrArchitecture - NODE Recent Works in Shenzhen
Doreen Heng Liu introduces into NODE’s recent design works - their initiatives and reflections on contemporary urbanism, in South China. In this particular case, she reveals the state-of-the-art thoughts and practice on public space through the marking of infrastructural projects in Shenzhen.

Wu Siegfried Zhiqiang
Vice President of TONGJI University
Lanxi – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow 

Ya-Hsin Chen
KCAP Architects & Planners
Toward Future Water Urbanism
Grand Projects touch both: city and landscape. They are rooted in global challenges related to climate change and pressure on natural resources. Grand projects are about design thinking in a context of collaboration to rebuild the resistant cities by holistic approach.

Zhang Li
Vice Dean / Prof of Architecture, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University
Founding Partner, Atelier TeamMinus
Editor-in-Chief, World Architecture Magazine Publications
Future of architecture and urban transition
If architecture used to be about addressing the static needs of life with dynamic interpretations, today it is about the changing dynamics of life itself. Urban ergonomics focuses on the interaction between the human body and space, advocating design with/for the human body, assisted by the availability of technological advancements.

Topic |  ‘Resilient Architecture, Healthcare Buildings and their Infrastructure’

Architecture and urban design has to be resilient and, at the same time, flexible to react to future demands. Especially hospitals and healthcare buildings need new designs for the future – and not just because of the previous coronavirus crisis. Demographic change means that we will be looking after an increased number of older people in future. At the same time, urban expansion pushes a need for larger structures to accommodate growth.

Hao Wang
Untitled Architects
Construction for a New Water Town
Taking Wang Hao's architectural project practices in recent years as a clue, the lecture will discuss the local expression of the traditional construction in the south of the Yangtze River in China. Facing modernization processes of the traditional architectural vocabulary, it will summarize construction methods in that area to explore a new architectural paradigm that has a "passage" relationship with nature.

Hieronimus Nickl/Jian Yang
Nickl & Partner Architekten AG
Current and future challenges in healthcare architecture
Due to current developments, hospitals all over the world are being put to the test more than ever. Which structural transformations does COVID-19 require – both in the short and the long term? It is nevessary to rethink the planning of hospitals.

Chris Bosse(Video)
Asia Pacific Director, LAVA
Digital Cathedrals and the city of the future - man, technology and nature: synergy in the urban environment
How do geometries in nature create both efficiency and beauty? What can architecture learn from nature in the areas of structure, material and building skin? How are efficient, intelligent and beautiful membranes for interiors and exteriors a solution of the future? Chris Bosse will present case studies including a building wrapped in bubble membranes, a tower transformed with a new skin, and a city shaded by smart umbrellas. LAVA projects combine digital workflow, nature’s structural principles and the latest digital fabrication technologies with the aim of achieving "more with less". More architecture with less material, energy, time and cost).

Topic | ‘Future of Living and Working’

How do we want to – and how will we – live and work in future? Workplaces and the work itself are continuously changing. New questions and challenges for the creation of residential and working spaces will arise in future, not least because of the practised strategies of mobile working, such as working from home. At the same time, demographic trends define what spaces will be in demand in future and how the existing spaces will need to change. We need flexible structures that can be dynamically adapted.

Thomas Fritzsche
thomas fritzsche architects | tfa
A Sustainable Office Tower - let’s do it now and let’s do it better
Thomas Fritzsche has been working in China for more than 15 years and realised many office buildings and office parks. In the project ‘A Sustainable Office Tower’, tfa recently developed a new typology of office high-rise building that reflects the contemporary trends of workspace design and creates a healthy and attractive interior that inspires creativity and cooperation. The project ‘A Sustainable Office Tower’ shows what should be done and what could be done.

Stephan Rewolle
gmp · Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners
Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
This project showcases the new working environment of the AIIB headquarters as a multinational bank with members from more than 100 nations. The shifting building volumes of the office areas meander one above the other resulting in a surprisingly complex open interior landscape that reflects natural light deep into the floor areas and allows for surprisingly intimate functional and visual relationships within the vast building volume.

Xu Tiantian
DnA_Design and Architecture
The Songyang Story: Rural revitalization through architecture as acupunctural strategy
“Architectural Acupuncture” is a holistic approach to the social and economic revitalization of rural China. The primary program is to serve the village and villagers, to restore their rural heritage as well as opening up for tourism and stimulating the rural economical development. With a minimal intervention approach, multi-functional public programs are introduced to different villages and rural region tailored to the complexity of respective heritage and context. Hence, context, program, and their potential relationship will cultivate architecture into a multidimensional expression and generate new experiment and exploration for users.

Yung Ho Chang
Atelier Feichang Jianzhu
Building Future
If the virtual realm is threatening to overtake the physical realm, what is the future for architecture? Perhaps, a new mission of architecture today is to remind us the tangibility of the tangible world. While architecture is enhancing our earthly experience of time and space, it is more likely to transform into pure forms itself. These arguments will be supported by a series of projects by Yung Ho Chang’s practice at FCJZ.

Topic | ‘Digital Design, AI and Robotics in Architecture’

In addition to BIM and the digitisation of the building process, architects also work with digital tools for planning and design. We want to answer the question of how architecture can change through the use of digital tools and what will be possible with the use of AI in the planning and building process. What will robots achieve in future on the construction site and in the production of customised components? And how far-reaching are the holistic strategies of BIM today really?

Satoshi Ohashi
Zaha Hadid Architects Beijing
How does digital design change the design of architecture in real scale?

Jens Kump
HPP
“Complexity” Design
Nowadays, the desires of being unique has a large impact on our design approach. How to guarantee HPP quality serving in the same time new formal desires? BIM, Hype or Chance from the view of architects?

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Urban development, Recent Projects

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Host:

Prof. LI Xiangning | Professor, Assistant Dean at Tongji University, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shanghai

time Topic Guest
14:00 -14:15 Welcome speechOrganizer's Welcome Speech

Randy Wang

Chief Executive Officer MMU BAU Fenestration Co., Ltd., Beijing

14:15 -14:30 Welcome Speech

Prof. LI Xiangning

Professor, Assistant Dean at Tongji University, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shanghai

14:30 -15:00 Intelligent urbanisation – Concepts of future-oriented city modules

Markus Lauber

General Manager China,KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten, Shanghai

15:00 -15:30 Future Proof Hybrid Urbanism

Steven Smit

Architect, Director MVRDV Asia, Shanghai

15:30 -16:00 Sensitive Urbanity

LIU Yichun

Partner and Principal Architect of Atelier Deshaus, Shanghai

Urban development, TOD

Friday, October 30, 2020

Host:

Prof. LI Xiangning | Professor, Assistant Dean at Tongji University, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shanghai

time Topic Guest
10:00 -10:15 Welcome Speech

Prof. LI Xiangning

Professor, Assistant Dean at Tongji University, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shanghai

10:15 -10:45 From Infra-structure to InfrArchitecture - NODE Recent Works in Shenzhen

Prof. Dr. Doreen Heng Liu

Founder, Principal, NODE Architecture & Urbanism, Distinguished professor Shenzhen University, Shenzhen

10:45 -11:15 Lanxi – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Prof. Dr.-Ing. WU Siegfried Zhiqiang

Prof. Dr.-Ing.,  Chief Planner of Shanghai World Expo 2010, Vice President of TONGJI University, Beijing

11:15 -11:30 Tea Break
11:30 -12:00 Toward Future Water Urbanism

Ya-Hsin Chen

Associate KCAP Architects & Planners, Shanghai

12:00 -12:30 Future of Architecture and Urban Transition

Prof. ZHANG Li

Dean and Tenured Professor of School of Architecture, Tsinghua University , Deputy Chief Architect of Architectural, Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University and Chief Architect of Atelier Teamminus , Beijing

12:30 -13:20 Presentations of the IUPA 2020 Winners

Prof. ZHANG Li

Dean and Tenured Professor of School of Architecture, Tsinghua University , Deputy Chief Architect of Architectural, Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University and Chief Architect of Atelier Teamminus , Beijing

Resilient Architecture, Healthcare Buildings and their Infrastructure

Friday, October 30, 2020

Host:

YE Yang | Director, Editorial Office, World Architecture Magazine, Beijing

time Topic Guest
13:45 -14:00 Welcome speech

YE Yang

Director, Editorial Office, World Architecture Magazine, Beijing

14:00 -14:30 Construction for a New Water Town

WANG Hao

Co-founder of Untitled Architects, Shanghai and Rùn Atelier, Shanghai

14:30 -14:45 Tea Break
14:45 -15:15 Current and future Challenges in Healthcare Architecture

Hieronimus Nickl/YANG Jian

General Manager Nickl & Partner Architectural Design Consulting Co., Ltd., München/Beijing

15:15 -15:45 Digital Cathedrals and the city of the future - man, technology and nature: synergy in the urban environment (Video)

Chris Bosse

Chris Bosse, Director of LAVA Asia Pacific, Sydney, Australia

17:30 -20:00 CADE Gala Dinner with IUPA 2020 Ceremony

Future of Living and Working

Saturday, October 31,2020

Host:

DONG Hao | Partner and Co-Founder of Crossboundaries, Beijing

time Topic Guest
10:00 -10:15 Welcome Speech

DONG Hao

Partner and Co-Founder of Crossboundaries, Beijing

10:15 -10:45 A Sustainable Office Tower - let’s do it now and let’s do it better

Thomas Fritzsche

Founder + Head of Design thomas fritzsche architects | tfa, 
Member of the German Chamber of Architects, 
Member of the German Sustainable Buildings Council (DGNB), 
Member of the German Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai

10:45 -11:15 Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

Stephan Rewolle

Associate Partner at gmp Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners, Beijing

11:15 -11:30 Tea Break
11:30 -12:00 Building Future

Yung Ho CHANG

FAIA, Founding Partner and Principal Architect, Atelier Feichang Jianzhu, Beijing

12:00 -12:30 The Songyang Story: Rural revitalization through architecture as acupunctural strategy

XU Tiantian

Founding Partner and Principal Architect, DnA_Design and Architecture, Beijing

Digital Design, AI and Robotics in Architecture

Saturday, October 31,2020

Host: 

SONG Yehao |  Professor of School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Deputy Chief Architect of Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University Co-founder and principal of SUP Atelier

time Topic Guest
13:45 -14:00 Welcome speech

SONG Yehao

Professor of School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Deputy Chief Architect of Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University Co-founder and principal of SUP Atelier    

14:00 -14:30 Digital Intelligence Integration Innovation

Satoshi Ohashi

Director of Zaha Hadid Architects China, Beijing

14:30 -14:45 Tea Break
14:45 -15:15 “Complexity” Design

Jens Kump

HPP Partner

Boris Schade-Bünsow

Editor-in-chief, Bauwelt, Berlin

Profile

Bauwelt is one of the leading German architectural magazine published every two weeks. AsStadtBauwelt last issue of each quarter focusses on current urban planning issues curated by the vice editor-in-chief of Bauwelt Kaye Geipel. First published in 1910 Bauwelt has its registered office in Berlin. With a total print run of approximately 12,000 copies, it features the largest job vacancy section of all German-language architectural and urban design journals. Bauwelt reports in a politically independent, critical, demanding and unbiased manner about contemporary architecture in Europe and around the world. Located in Gütersloh, the publisher of Bauwelt is known by the name Bauverlag BV GmbH and comprises 18 magazines on the subject of building topics. Boris Schade-Bünsow has been editor-in-chief of Bauwelt since March 2011.

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Professor Dr. LI Xiangning

Professor, Assistant Dean at Tongji University, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shanghai

Profile

Dr Xiangning Li is full professor in history, theory and criticism at Tongji University’s, College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is also assistant dean and director of international programmes there. He was a visiting scholar at MIT in 2006 and lectured in universities and institutes including Harvard University, Princeton University and the University of Southern California. As a critic, he is the Vice President and secretary General of architectural Review Committee of Architectural Society of China, and he is also a member of the International Committee of Architectural Critics. He has published widely on contemporary architecture and urbanism in China and he is the editor-in-chief of Architecture China, an international architectural magazine about contemporary architecture culture in China. Professor Li wasa curatorial committee member for the 2007 Shenzhen Biennale and 2008 Shanghai Biennale. He was curator of the exhibition of ‘From Research to Design’ in 2012 Milan Triennale, 2013 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale, 2013 West Bund Architecture and Contemporary Art Biennial, 2017 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season. He was also the curator of the China Pavilion at the Architectural Biennale Venice 2018. 

Selected Projects

2019  Local Architecture Strategies in the Context of Globalization 
2018  Contemporary Architecture in China:Towards a critical Pragmatism 
2017  Contemporary Chinese Architecture Reader 
2014  Made in Shanghai 
2011  Contemporary Green Buildings in China 

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Markus Lauber

General Manager China,KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten, Shanghai

Profile 

Markus Lauber is responsible for our international projects in China. He previously held a senior position at a local project developer in Beijing. He has been working as an architect outside Germany since 1999, initially in Barcelona, as of 2009 for Drees & Sommer in Madrid, in Andermatt, and from 2012 as General Manager in Beijing. Markus Lauber studied at the University of Stuttgart, ETH Zurich and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona (UPC). 

Selected projects 

Bio-Enterprise, Shenzhen, schematic design phase 
AVIC, design competition  

Selected projects (previous employers) 

2014 BMW R&D Center Beijing, China (Drees & Sommer) 
2011   New BBVA headquarters, Madrid, Spain (Drees & Sommer) 
2010  La Llotja de Lerida, theatre and convention center, Spain (LABB Arquitectura) 
2007  New PGGM pension fund headquarters, Zeist, the Netherlands (Mateo Arquitectura) 

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Steven Smit

Architect Director MVRDV Asia, Shanghai

Profile

Steven Smit is a licensed architect in The Netherlands and Australia with 25 years of experience.  Steven Smit was appointed Director MVRDV Asia in 2019. He is responsible for the growth of MVRDV Asia and the quality delivery of MVRDV projects in the Asian region. Steven’s career started in Sydney Australia on landmark waterfront and high rise projects. In 2002 Steven relocated to China to lead projects with international architecture firms based in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Chengdu. Steven held director roles on international award-winning land mark projects over a 15 year period. Career highlights include participation in the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale as PTW China Director (Beijing National Aquatic Centre “Watercube“ project) and as senior architect with OMA for the delivery of the CCTV Headquarters Tower in Beijing. Steven has been an invited guest critic at a number of Chinese Architecture schools from 2010 onwards (including Tongji University Shanghai).

Selected projects

Under construction  Qiantan Lujiazui Mixed Use Project, Shanghai, China Nantou Renovation      Project, Shenzhen, China  
Under construction  Huanggang Port Urban Design, Shenzhen, China 
Under construction  Sunac DongJiaDu Mixed Use Project, Shanghai, China 
Under construction  Grand Canal Urban Design, Hangzhou, China 
2019  Factory Redevelopment, Zhengzhou China 
2019  Xintong Avenue TOD Station Development, Chengdu China

Liu Yichun

Co-founder, partner and principal architect of Atelier Deshaus Guest professor Tongji University RIBA chartered member Columnist for Architectural Journal, The Architect, Shanghai

Profile

Liu has been invited to participate in a variety of major international architecture and art exhibitions, such as ‘Alors, La Chine?’ at Centre Pompidou in 2003, “New Chinese Architecture” Exhibition at Venice Biennale of Architecture 2010 and Milano Trinnale 2012. Liu has lectured in many universities and museums, such as Tongji University, Southeast University, Tianjin University, Central Academy of Fine Arts, University of Hong Kong, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Architectural Institute of France, Museum of Architecture and Legacy of France (Palais de Chaillot), Beijing Centre of GSAPP and Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum. Liu’s works, with Long Museum West Bund as the most representative, have won a number of architectural awards, including the Honorable Prize of “The 7th Far Eastern Architectural Design Award”, Architectural Review’s Award for Emerging Architecture, the Gold Prize in the ASC Architecture Creation Awards for Public Architecture in 2016 and the Honor Award Best in Show for Architecture 2019 from AIA’s China Chapter. The office was recognized as one of 10 Design Vanguards 2011 by Architectural Record and received an Honorable Prize of the 2010 New Chinese Architecture Award by AS.Architecture-Studio of France. 
 
Selected projects 

Under construction  Qintai Art Museum, Wuhan, China 
2019  Riverside Passage, Shanghai, China 
2017  Taizhou Contemporary Art Museum, Zhejiang, China 
2017  Renovation of 80,000-ton silos on Minsheng Wharf, Shanghai, China 
2016  Shanghai Modern Art Museum and its Walkways, Shanghai, China 
2014  Long Museum West Bund

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Professor Dr. Doreen Heng Liu

Doctor of Design, Harvard University Founder, Principal, NODE Architecture & Urbanism Friedman Visiting Professor of Practice in Architecture (2019) University of California at Berkeley Distinguished Professor in Architecture (2020-2025), Shenzhen University, Shenzhen & Hong Kong, China

Profile

Doreen Heng Liu is a Chinese architect born in Guangzhou. She received her MArch from UC Berkeley in 1994 and Doctor of Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2008. 
Her design works have been awarded and published in many international and domestic professional magazines including Architectural Record, Domus, Volume, Abitare and exhibited in various architectural and art exhibitions internationally including Venice, Berlin, Rotterdam, Vienna and many more. In 2014, Doreen was nominated as Curator for the Hong Kong Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. In 2015, she was nominated as Chief Curator for Shenzhen Hong Kong Urbanism and Architecture Bi-city Biennial. Since September 2008, Doreen has been teaching at the School of Architecture, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). In academic year 2015-16, Doreen was appointed as Guest Professor at D-ARCH, ETH. In fall 2019, Doreen was appointed as Friedman Visiting Professor of Practice at University of California – Berkeley. 
 
Selected Projects  

2019  Pingshan Terrace: Pingshan River Nanbu Sewage Plant - Public Infrastructure 
2020  Shenzhen Pedestrian Bridge 
2019  Memories on Terrain - The Site Design of Bao-an Sub-Venue, Baoan District, Shenzhen 
2018  Humen Meisha Primary School 
2018  Table-Landscape: Plot B4, Vanke Design Commune, Liuxiandong, Shenzhen 

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Professor. WU Siegfried Zhiqiang

Prof. Dr.-Ing., Chief Planner of Shanghai World Expo 2010 Vice President of TONGJI University, Beijing

Profile

Prof. WU Siegfried Zhiqiang, a leading urban designer and planner, is devoted to sustainable urban design and AI supported urban planning. He advocates urban design innovation both in practice and in methodology for global urban sustainability. Prof. WU achieved his doctor’s degree in urban and regional planning at Technical University of Berlin in 1994 with his doctoral dissertation about “Globalization of Metroplis at the Millennium”. Prof. WU is Vice President of TONGJI University, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), Academician of German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), Academician of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science (IVA) and Honorary Fellow of American Institute of Architects (Hon. FAIA). Prof. WU serves as Co-Chair of International Steering Committee of World Planning School Congress, Permanent Member of UNESCO-UIA (International Union of Architects), Member of Advisory Committee - Creative Economy –United Nations Special Unit for South-South Cooperation, UNDP and Vice President of Urban Planning Society of China. Prof. WU is Chief Planner of World EXPO Shanghai 2010 and Qingdao World Horticultural Exhibition 2014. He is also the Chief Planner of the Earthquake Placement Plan in Sichuan and the Chief Planner of urban design concept for the Subcenter of Tongzhou in Beijing.

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Ya-Hsin Chen

Associate KCAP Architects & Planners, Shanghai

Profile

Ya-Hsin Chen graduated from the architecture department of Tam-Kang University Taiwan in 2001 being awarded the Taiwan National Golden Award for Architecture. In 2005 she received her Master degree in architecture at TU Delft. She worked as an urban designer and architect at KAAP3 ontwerpbureau in Rotterdam, Loxodrome Architects and Planners in Venlo and Foster and Partners in London.  
In 2010 Ya-Hsin Chen joined KCAP as representative of KCAP China. In 2014 she was appointed associate and 2018 associate partner. She is responsible for the office management of KCAP Shanghai and KCAP’s projects in Asia. Through more than 10 years’ practice in China, Ya-Hsin has successfully brought KCAP’s multi-disciplinary approach to complex challenges in Asian cities. The projects range in scales and context, from strategic masterplanning, urban regeneration to waterfront development. 
 Ya-Hsin is regularly invited as lecturer at planning institutes and legal authorities. In 2015, she was guest professor at China Art Academy in Hangzhou and previously guest critic at HKU and Tam-Kang University in Taiwan.

Selected projects

Under construction  East Dike, Shenzhen, China, 1st Prize, Shortlist WLA 2020
Under construction  Guangming Reservoir, Shenzhen, China, 1st Prize
2020  Chishi River Masterplan, Shenshan Special Cooperation Zone, China, 2nd Prize
2018  Qingdao Port City, Qingdao, China, 1st Prize
2017  Jinan Southern Mountain Eco Masterplan, Jinan, China, 1st Prize
2016  Zhangjiang Science City, Shanghai, China, 1st Prize
2014  QianHai Masterplan Subunits #8/10, Shenzhen, China, 1st Prize
2011  Sungqang-Qingshhuihe Regeneration Masterplan, Shenzhen, China, 1st Prize

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Professor. ZHANG Li

Dean and Tenured Professor of School of Architecture, Tsinghua University Deputy Chief Architect of Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University and Chief Architect of Atelier Teamminus , Beijing

Profile

Professor Zhang Li (Li Brian Zhang / Brian Chang), is Dean at the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. There, he founded the design research laboratory Atelier TeamMinus in 2001, where he still works as leading architect. Furthermore, Zhang Li is Editor-in-Chief of the renowned Chinese magazine World Architecture. At the same time he is board member of the Architectural Society of China (ASC). Zhang Li’s research focusses on pre-industrial oriental philosophy and its contemporary reinterpretation. As an advocator of the ‘Soft Sustainability’ concept, he developed a design idea in relationship with the space and the human body. Abroad, he has been a Visiting Professor (2017) in the Polytechnic University of Turin, Professor of Practice (2012) in Syracuse University and the Visiting Critic (2010) in the National University of Singapore. He has also taught joint-studio projects in a number of institutions, including GSD, Harvard; Barcelona School of Architecture, UPC; Berlage Institute in the Netherlands. Zhang Li has been a keynote speaker or guest panellist at different international events, including ArchiLab 2002 (Orléans, France), Sensual City 2009 (Paris, France), Datum KL 2011 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and ISAIA 2012 (Gwangju, Korea). He moderated the Tsinghua Session in the 2012 Pritzker Beijing Architecture Forum. From 2014 to 2015, he was the director of Venue Planning and Sustainability in Beijing’s bid for the Winter Games 2022. 
 
Selected Projects  

Under construction  Shougang Big Air of Beijing 2022 Winter Games  
Under construction  Zhangjiakou Zone of Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games  
2019  Piazza & Art Space, Horticulture Village, Gujiaying, Yanqing, Beijing  
2019  Gujiaying Horticulture Village Visitor Center, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China 
2016  Aranya Qixing Youth Camp, Qinhuangdao, China 
2016  Gao Ping Rural Library, Liang Hu, China 
2014  Adapt & Reuse Nan-Luo-Gu-Xiang Visitor Centre and Retails, Beijing 

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Ye Yang

Director, Editorial Office, World Architecture Magazine PhD Candidate, MArch., School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing

Profile

Ye Yang is the director of the editorial office of the international known architecture magazine World Architecture (WA), which was founded in October 1980 and is directed by Tsinghua University. It is bilingual, published monthly, and distributed worldwide. WA is one of the largest architectural magazines in China. Before her thriving career as a journalist, Ye Yang was a heritage conservator after her master’s degree study on architectural history. Since the genesis of the International Urban Project Award, Ye Yang contributes her expertise to this German-Chinese cooperation. Also in the name of WA, she hosts lectures, organizes various exhibitions and competitions. WA is one of the most influential platforms of architecture ideas in contemporary China, and facilitates in-depth architecture debates in focusing on hot issues both inside and outside China. In 2002, WA set up the bi-annual WA Award for Chinese Architecture (WAACA). 

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WANG Hao

Co-founder of Atelie Untitled Architects

Profile 

WANG Hao, born in 1978, is the co-founder of Untitled Architects . He graduated from Tongji University in 2002 and University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2006. In 2011, he founded “Anonymous Architects” studio. In 2013, he held a solo exhibition “Experimental Series of Vernacular Dwellings” at the Shanghai Design Center. In the same year, he won the German BAUWELT debut award. He participated in the Shanghai Urban Space Art Season in 2015. Since 2015, he has been a guest lecturer at the School of Architecture and Art, China Academy of Art. He participated in the 15th Venice Biennale in 2016. He is also the co-founder of Bau-Workshop, a civil work camp that seeks to rebuild the residential buildings and promotes residential research and timber structure design. Rùn Atelier advocates that the design starts with daily aesthetics and independent thinking, and implements the architectural concept of "people and houses mutual support". In contrast to traditional humanities, we take the ancient and modern craftsmanship, respect the law of natural symbiosis, and carefully create the beauty of the text and return to the original and contemporary  "Rùn" living aesthetics.

Projects (selection) 

Under construction  Suichang People's Hospital, Suichang, Lisui, Zhejiang, China 
Under construction  K11 Sky Street,  Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
2018  Xiao Yue Pavilion, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China 
2017  Transformation of the New Village Community in Guiyuan,Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China 
2017  Rùn House, Qian Tong Acient town, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China 
2016  Granary, Beilun District, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China 
2016  Cheng House, Pan Village, Biyang Town, Huang Shan, An Hui, China 
2016  Culture Center in Qiantong, Ninghai Town,Ningbo, Zhejiang, China 
2011  Keli Museum, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China 
2010  Wang House, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Hieronimus Nickl

Dipl.-Ing. Architect MBA International Hospital and Healthcare Management, Beijing

Profile

Hieronimus Nickl graduated from the degree course in architecture at Erfurt University of Applied Sciences in 2003. In 2008, he completed an MBA programme in International Hospital and Healthcare Management at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management with a master’s degree. Hieronimus joined Nickl & Partner Architekten in 2003 and has specialized since 2005 as a project manager and team leader in international projects. Since April 2015 he is general manager of Nickl & Partner Architectural Design Consulting Co.,Ltd in Beijing, China. In the same year Hieronimus became board member of Nickl & Partner Architekten AG. Since 2019 he is also the managing director of Nickl Architekten Deutschland GmbH. 
 
Selected Projects 

2017  New University Heart Center building, Hamburg, Germany 
2015  Dalian Children’s Hospital, Dalian, China 
2014  Hospital of the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 
2011  Shenyang Children’s Hospital, Shenyang, China 
2009  University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, Germany

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Chris Bosse

Director of LAVA Asia Pacific, Sydney

Profile

Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck founded LAVA in 2007. It was established as a network with offices in Sydney, Stuttgart and Berlin. This international network of leading architects uses the latest research and technology to build efficient, sustainable beautiful structures. Educated in Germany and Switzerland, Bosse bases his work on the computerized study of organic structures and resulting spatial conceptions. His award-winning design projects have won Bosse an international reputation as a new generation architect who pushes the boundaries of traditional structure and architecture by digital and experimental form-finding. Whilst Associate Architect at PTW in Sydney Bosse was a key designer of the Beijing Olympics Watercube, winner of the Atmosphere Award at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale. The following year he received the Emerging Architect RIBA award, in 2012 Perspective's 40 Under 40 for Asia’s rising design stars and an Australian Design Honour in 2015. LAVA was the 2016 Laureate of the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. Alongside his architectural practice, Bosse is Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney and lectures worldwide. 
 
Selected Projects 

Under construction  German Pavilion Expo 2020, Dubai, UAE 
Under construction  Zhejiang Gate Towers, Hangzhou, China 
Under construction  Hainan Ocean Flower Resort, Hainan Island, China  
2019  Ecokid Kindergarten, Vinh, Vietnam 
2017  Bayreuth Youth Hostel, Bayreuth, Germany  
2016  Philips Lighting Centre, Eindhoven, Netherlands 
2016  Powerhouse Museum Exhibition, Sydney, Australia

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Hao Dong

Partner and Co-Founder of Crossboundaries, Beijing

Profile

Holds a Bachelor degree in Architecture from the Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, and a Master’s degree in Architecture from Pratt Institute, New York, USA. He used to work in one of the biggest state-owned design enterprises, Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD) after living and studying in the United States for almost 5 years. Hao is a co-founder and the managing director of Crossboundaries’ Beijing office. 
Crossboundaries’ major projects include the Affiliated High School of Peking University, Chaoyang Future School, Aimer Lingerie Factory, Beijing Zhengtong BMW Museum, Soyoo Joyful Growth Center, Family box, Jiangsu Beisha & Shuoji Kindergartens etc. Crossboundaries’ work has been published across a range of leading industry magazines and is also frequently featured in online design media. We have received multiple international accolades, most recently including the 2018 and 2019 German Design Award, 2018 Architizer A+Award, 2018 Architecture MasterPrize, nominated for 2019 Architectural MasterPrize – eduction projects, nominated for 2021 DAM Prize, was selected as the“AD 100 designers”of year 2015 and 2017 as well as 2019. Hao has written for FT China’s education column, and is teaching at Tsinghua University, Peking University and the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), as well as participating as juror for the Architizer A+ AMP Architecture Masterprize Awards. Recently he has also taught Design Thinking at several innovative educational organizations, including the Affiliated High School of Peking University, China campus of the United World College, Moonshot Academy and IDEAS camp for younger students.  

Selected Projects  

2020  Jinlong Prefab School, Shenzhen, China 
2019  Pop-up campus – Infitity 6, Shenzhen, China 
2019  Jiangsu Beisha Kindergarten, Jiangsu, China 
2018  ETU School, Beijing, China 
2017  Chaoyang Future School, Beijing, China 

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Thomas Fritzsche

Founder + Head of Design thomas fritzsche architects | tfa, Member of the German Chamber of Architects, Member of the German Sustainable Buildings Council (DGNB), Member of the German Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai

Profile

thomas fritzsche architects | tfa is a German office, founded 1988 by Thomas Fritzsche in Stuttgart / Germany. Since 2005 thomas fritzsche architects | tfa is based in Shanghai / China and operates an office in Köln / Germany. With 32 years of experience in Germany and Asia, 174 designed projects and 85 completed buildings thomas fritzsche architects | tfa ensures German experience and German quality. Through the design and completion of many projects as business parks, buildings for work and workplace interiors, thomas fritzsche architects | tfa consistently developed a strong expertise as a well-recognised workplace-specialist. The participation in conferences, trade-fairs and research on workplace design strengthens this expertise constantly. Sustainable design is for thomas fritzsche architects | tfa the only way to design surroundings of highest quality, to protect the environment and to improve the quality of people’s lives. thomas fritzsche architects | tfa designs all stages of a project as master planning, architectural design, interior design and landscape design. In addition thomas fritzsche architects | tfa monitors all external planers and supervises the construction site. 
 
Selected projects 

2018  Financial Street Towers 1-6, Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China 
2017  Nongfa Office Tower, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China 
2016  Guangfu Office Tower, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China 
2013  SPD Bank Office Tower, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China 
2013  Ningbo Bank Office Tower, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China 

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Stephan Rewolle

Associate Partner at gmp Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners, Beijing

Profile

Stephan Rewolle, born in 1967 Born in Skive, Denmark, studied Architecture at TU Braunschweig in Germany as well in Graz, Austria and at the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1996 he joined Gerkan, Marg and Partners. Eight years later he got head of their office in Beijing in China. Over the years at gmp he has managed numerous prestigious projects, including the Chinese National Museum in Beijing, the Southern Railway Station in Hangzhou, and the Tianjin Binhai Cultural Center. Since 2010 Stephan Rewolle is Associate partner of von Gerkan, Marg and Partners. 

Selected Projects  

2019  AIIB Headquarters & Asia Financial Center, Beijing 
2019  Hangzhou South Railway Station 
2017  CHAO Hotel, Beijing 
2015  Bund SOHO, Shanghai 
2011  National Museum of China, Beijing

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Xu Tiantian

Founding Partner and Principal Architect,DnA_Design and Architecture, Beijing

Profile

Xu Tiantian is the founding principal of DnA _Design and Architecture. She has received numerous awards such as the WA China Architecture Award in 2006 and 2008, the Architectural League New York’s Young Architects Award in 2008, and the Design Vanguard Award in 2009 by Architecture Record and the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architect in 2019. She has built a number of projects, such as Songzhuang Art Center and Ordos Art Museum. In the past years she has been engaged extensively in the rural revitalizing process in Songyang and Zhejiang Province. Her groundbreaking “architectural acupuncture” is a holistic approach to the social and economic revitalization of rural China and has been selected by UN Habitat as the case study of Inspiring Practice on Urban-Rural Linkages. Xu Tiantian received her masters in architecture and urban design from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and her baccalaureate in architecture from Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Selected Projects  

2019  Dushan Leisure Center, Dushan Mountain, Lishui, Zhejiang Province, China 
2017  Hakka Indenture Museum, Six Village, Dadongba, Lishui, Zhejiang Province, China 
2017  Shimen Bridge, Shimen Village, Wangsong Street, Lishui, Zhejiang Province, China 
2017  Wangjing Memorial Hall, Wang Village, Lishui, Zhejiang Province, China 
2016  Brown Sugar Factory, Xing Village, Zhangxi Village, Lishui, Zhejiang Province, China

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Yung Ho Chang

Founding Partner and Principal Architect, Atelier Feichang Jianzhu, Beijing

Profile

Educated both in China and in the US, Chang received Master of Architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984. Since 1992, he has been practicing in China and established Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ) with Lijia Lu in 1993. He has won a number of prizes, such as First Place in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition in 1986, a Progressive Architecture Citation Award in 1996, the 2000 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, and the Academy Award in Architecture from American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006, and 2016 China Architecture Media Award Excellence in Practice Prize. 2019, FCJZ has been recognized as one of the 100+ Best Architecture Firms 2019 by Domus magazine. Recently, Jishou Art Museum has won the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2020 Architecture Award and the ArchDaily China Building of the Year 2020 Award. He participated in many international exhibitions of art and architecture, including six times in the Venice Biennale since 2000. He has taught at various architecture schools in the USA and China; he was a Professor and Founding Head of Graduate Center of Architecture at Peking University from 1999 to 2005; he held the Kenzo Tange Chair at Harvard GSD in 2002, the Eliel Saarinen Chair at Michigan in 2004, and between 2005 and 2010, he headed the Architecture Department at MIT. He was also a Pritzker Prize Jury member from 2011 to 2017. 

Selected Projects 

2020  Forbidden City College, Chongqing 
2019  Jishou Art Museum, Jishou, Human 
2018  Concrete Vessel, Beijing 
2015  Novartis Shanghai R&D Campus, Master Plan and Laboratory Building, Shanghai 
2013  Vertical Glass House, Shanghai

Professor. Song Yehao

Professor of School of Architecture, Tsinghua University Deputy Chief Architect of Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University Co-founder and principal of SUP Atelier, Beijing

Profile

Prof Song is Co-founder and principal of SUP Atelier in Beijing. He is also Professor at the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University since 2008. Prof. Song researches on sustainable theory and design within the scope of architecture, urban studies, and building technology, while highly promoting the combination of modern design and vernacular architecture in China. He is one of the leading academic in the sustainable architecture in china and his book holistic design of architecture with ecological concerns becomes the milestone for Chinese sustainable architectural research. He is key consultant for government and authorities. He works as secretary-general of the Green Building’s Theoretical and Practical Group, Chinese Green Building Committee. His also embrace the architectural practice for over 20 years. Projects have been awarded worldwide, including gold medal at ARCASIA award of Architecture, winner of engineering prize on World Architecture Festival, first prize of Excellent design award of Ministry of Education in China, “project of the year” on Architizer Award.  

Selected Projects 

2018  Swirling Cloud The Information Pavilion for BJFU Garden Festival 
2017  Village Lounge of Shangcun 
2015  Central Canteen and Student Centre of Tsinghua University 
2012  Waterfowl Pavilion of Beijing Zoo 
2006  Changshu Library 

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Satoshi Ohashi

Director of China at Zaha Hadid Architects, Beijing

Profile

Born in Japan and raised in America, Satoshi Ohashi has worked globally in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo. He has worked and collaborated closely with Zaha Hadid since 1987. He is currently a Senior Associate at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) directing the Beijing studio. ZHA is a British international architecture and design firm founded by Zaha Hadid in 1980, with its main office situated in London. In 2002 her former associate Patrik Schumacher became her business partner. In 2014, she was the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize. She was awarded the Japanese Praemium Imperiale art prize in 2009. Her architectural style can be described as flowing or kinetic. Patrik Schumacher defines her style as parametric, meaning that it has an‘eleganc e of orderly complexity that gives an impression of seamless fluidity’. Over time, her designs became ‘more organic and more flowing’ such as the first building she designed in China, the Guangzhou Opera House, which was completed in 2010. These earlier works have been described as both ‘archaic and futuristic’. In 2015, around 400 architects worked for ZHA on more than 950 projects in 44 countries. Zaha Hadid died in March 2016.  

Selected Projects 

2019  Beijing International Airport 
2018  Leeza SOHO, Beijing, China 
2014  Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, South Korea 
2014  Wangjing SOHO, Beijing, China 
2013  Innovation Tower Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China 
2012  Galaxy SOHO, Beijing, China

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Jens Kump

HPP Partner , Beijing

Profile

Mr. Jens Kump is a partner of HPP Architects, leading the design team and operations in China and East Asia. He has over 30 years’ experience in architectural design and project executions for buildings both in Germany and abroad since he joined HPP in 1999. According to the global development strategy of HPP International, Mr. Kump started working in Shanghai as the founder & director of HPP China office in 2006, and joined the HPP partnership in 2014.

During his 15+ years’ experience in living and working in China, Mr. Kump has realized numerous of remarkable architectural projects for the local Chinese culture. His portfolio encompasses a wide range of building typologies including culture and education, sports, office, complex, transit-oriented development, urban renovation and refurbishment. Mr. Kump brings the international design approach with technological innovative ideas to China and completed many architectural design and projects of different scales, with high quality and local characteristics for the Chinese market. Nowadays Mr. Kump is frequently invited to be an expert judge member for the government's international projects.

Selected Projects

Under Construction   Pudong Soccer Arena, Shanghai, China
Under Construction   Jinyu Xingfa Cement Factory Renovation, Beijing, China
Under Construction   Nanshan Science & Technology Innovation Center, Shenzhen, China
Under Construction   Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Taicang Campus, Suzhou, China
2019                          Shenzhen North Station Huide Tower, Shenzhen, China
2018                          In-Bund Office Building, Shanghai, China