Sheff Lecture by Joe Carter 2014_11_24

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Building Cities:Perspectivesfrom China

My talk is more experiential than academic; from the point of view of a practicing architect. I designed close to 6 million m2 of buildings, and about 600,000 m2 were built . (1 in 10).

“Those with manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains, while those who relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously hunting the shadow, not the substance. But those who have a through knowledge of both, like men armed at all points, have sooner attained their object and carried authority with them.”Vitruvius

Building Cities: Perspectives from China

1. China’s Rapid Urbanization Begins; Challenges for Architects2. Examples of My Work in China3. From Canada to China

A Concluding Thought




Beijing Population: 1950 - 2025

Beijing 1960: Built-up Area 70 km2

Beijing 1990: Built-up Area1100 km2

Beijing 2010: Built-up Area 2400 km2

Montreal: 1000 people/km2 of built-up area Beijing: 5000 people/km2 of built-up area

Physical change not as great as social changehttp://countrymeters.info/en/China

http://countrymeters.info/en/China

China’s Rapid Urbanization: Challenges for Architects and Planners

Blessing and a burden

Liang Si Cheng

What is Chinese and Modern?

A vertically-Stretched Pavilion

Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium, Beijing

Paul Andreau, National Grand Theater of China, Beijing

Rem Koolhaas, CCTV Tower Beijing

Li Xiao Dong

Li Xiao Dong, Liyuan Library, Jiao Jie He Village, Huai Rou, Beijing, 2012

Li Xiao Dong, Liyuan Library, Jiao Jie He Village, Huai Rou, Beijing, 2012

Wang Shu, Pritzker Architecture Prize, 2012

Wang Shu, Hangzhou Art Academy, Hangzhou

Wang Shu, Ningbo History Museum

Wang Shu, Hangzhou Art Academy, Hangzhou

In 2006, Ma Qing Yun became the Dean of the University of Southern California, School of Architecture

Zhang Yong He: Dean of the MIT School of Architecture, 2005-2010

MAD Architects Ma Yansong

Ma Yuan Song, Marylin Munro Towers, Toronto




www.townsnet.cn

Beijing office of a Chicago design firm 1999-2005

My own firm2006 to the present

3 built & 3 not yet built projects

Chinese architectural offices: 1989-1996

http://www.townsnet.cn/

Qingdao Office Building, 1991

Shandong, Yantai, Cai Yun Cheng 1991

Shandong, Yantai, Cai Yun Cheng 1991

Shandong, Qingdao, Fushan Bay Planning 1992

3 km long

Shandong, Qingdao, Fushan Bay Planning 1992

Beijing, Nan Xin Yuan Residential District 1993

Beijing’s First Social Housing Project

Construction Area: 222,000 sq.m. Plot Ratio: 2.16 Population Density: 777 people/hectare


Beijing’s First Social Housing Project



Construction Area: 222,000 sq.m. Plot Ratio: 2.16 Population Density: 777 people/hectare

Ningbo, Beilun Free Trade Zone, 2002

Water Courtyard in Nan Xi Jiang, Zhejiang Province



Ningbo Beilun Free Trade Zone Tower Design 2002


Central Academy of Drama (33 hectare site)

Contract Signing Ceremony Zhu Xiao Di (BIAD) and Dean Xu (Central Academy of Drama

Contract Signing Ceremony

Contract Signing Ceremony

Cooperation with Beijing Institute of Architectural Design, 3RD Department

Cooperation with Beijing Institute of Architectural Design, 2ND Department

Beijing Normal University

Project BriefPerforming Arts/Stage Arts CampusList of room areas for each building140,000 m2 Total Building Area18 m. height limitNo Chinese referencesSimple, square formsModest costLogical zoning

Planning ConceptsGenerate Context by making a “town”: • Use buildings to make space Streets & Squares Courtyards open & closed Conversations between buildings• Dining & Library; heart at center• Formal axis at entrance only• Autonomous departments


Site Planning

Conversations

Design Process Began with Sketches

ConstructionDining (left) and Library (right)

Dining Hall:East and West-facing Façade Design

Dining

Dormitory and Dining

Holes

Student Dormitory:Use five dormitories to make block.


Theater Design

China Canada British Columbia

Green Building Exchange

May 2008

中国 - 加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚绿色建筑交流会

Montreal 1973

800 Seat

Theaters

Theaters

800 Seat

263 Seat

Xing Fu Cun Mixed Use Development120,000 m2, 2002

Beijing, China

Xing Fu San Cun Concept Study

Xing Fu San Cun Mixed Use Development





Xing Fu San Cun Mixed Use Development: Layered Space


Collaboration with KDG Architects, ShanghaiTianjin International Tennis Center

2007Shanghai, China

Tianjin International Tennis Center, West District of Tuanbo New Town, Jinghai County,

60,000 m2 venue for the 6th East Asian Games. Completed in 2012

Qiu Kang, Head of KDG2007 (left) 1987 (right)

Tianjin International Tennis Center








Fangshan Mountain Resort







Mi Yun Village Hotel





道的空序列观间

入口 – 道 – 主殿 – 园杏台 – 壁画银 / 藏楼– 经

道寝宿长 / 会客

Daoist Temple at the Great Wall










Musical Bricks, Montreal 1966

Mattawa, Oil Pastel Painting, 1970

The world was one, and we had to be anxiously concerned about its needs. We had to build a new kind of world, one that was just, one that transcended nationalism, sexism, racism and any kind of religious intolerance. Cultural diversity was important. Our survival included searching for synergetic relationships and preserving the

cultural gene pool.

Expo 67

A Humane “Inner” City A Humane “Outer” City

Back to school, thanks to Maureen AndersonUnderstanding of architecture as part of larger enterprise of city building both inner and outer.

Adventure Playground, Pointe St. Charles

Neighbourhood Relations, Pointe St. Charles

Community Gardens, Pointe St. Charles

• Renovate Old St. John’s House, 1976• Lino-Cuts of Local Life, 1979• Harbour Symphony, 1983

Renovate Old St. John’s House




Harbour Symphony, 1983

St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1865

St. John’s, Newfoundland, as a Natural Amphitheater

Harbour: Stage

Sloping Town: Audience Seating

Southside Hills:Backdrop

Sample Sheet Music for Ship’s Horn, Harbour Symphony, 1983-2003

Hear a sound sample at: http://www.townsnet.cn/artWriting/harbourSymphony/hsShortSelection80.mp3

Tianjin University Campus, 1985

Tianjin University Professors, May,1985

China, Confucius Temple, Qu Fu, Shandong Province, 1985

China Sketches, 1985

China Sketches, 1985

中国印象—速写

China, Confucius Temple, Qu Fu, Shandong Province, 1985

Tianjin Water Park Dawn Breeze Pavilion

1985

天津水上公园

With Tianjin School of Architecture Teachers

Student Work 1986 -7

Beijing Railway Station, May 20,1985

北戴河旅游酒店

Zhong Jing Architects and Engineers1989-1993, Beijing, China

Miao and Dong Embroidery

Five Colours Earth

Miao and Dong EmbroideryMiao and Dong Embroidery

Miao and Dong EmbroideryFive Colours Earth Fashion







Why are we building cities? What is China’s role?

Cities are the infrastructure and nodes of an emerging global community.

"The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now,

if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.”

T. de Chardin

The Great Unity, All Under Heaven is One Family (China)Maturation of Humanity (Baha’i)All-inclusive Family (Toynbee)Omega Point (de Chardin)Grand Synthesis (Lazlo)Majestic House (Du Fu)Global Village (McLuhan) New World Order

India

Chi

na

Indigenous North America

Jew

ish

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istia

n / W

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IslamA

frica

A Shared DreamA Common History

A Common HeritageA Common HomeA Common Future

Evolution has a purpose

"Heaven is my father and earth is my mother..all people are my brothers and sisters, and all things are my companions...“Zhang Zai (1020-77)

McGill Poet, Frank Scott “The world is my country

The human race is my race”

Map of Human Maturation

The construction of the inner and outer city is a necessary part of the construction of the Great Unity. Cities are nodes of the global village.Urbanization Wave: West/China/India/Africa. China has much to offer,

not just city-building experience.

Empire/Nation

City/City-State

Tribe

Family

World Community

The Evolution of Social and Political OrderGreater and greater release of human capacity

Globalization

Humanity’s Collective Maturation Process(process comparable to the maturation of the individual)

放纵型专制型

Summary (2 of 2)

Humanity’s collective maturation can be compared to the maturation of the individual.

China was the leader of our collective

development until about AD1300.

Development continued with Islam, from about 600

to 1500, building a civilization, a knowledge

bridge, that stretched from Fuzhou to Seville. The fruits of the Chinese,

Hindu, Jewish, and Greek worlds – and everything in between – was absorbed

and shared across all that same territory.

Islam’s turn to lead exactly corresponded with the

Dark Ages of the West. Islamic civilization caused

the Renaissance in Europe. The west has led

us into the 20th century.Its materialistic consumer

paradigm currently dominates the globalization

process.

The world is challenged to build a civilization that is

both materially and spiritually advanced, and

that draws on our collective heritage.

Learning from the Discourse on Social and Economic Development

“Outer” City “Inner” City

Some Criteria for the Sustainable “Outer City”• Mixed-use • Rich street life based on pedestrians and public transportation • New green city infrastructure for water and waste • A net zero energy and water community• Agriculture imbedded into the community

Some Criteria for the Sustainable “Inner City”• On-going Capacity Building• Individuals who are constructive, responsible protagonists • Communities that are originators and encouragers, that work together with a common purpose • Institutions that provide for meaningful participation

Architects grow in Discourse “A” but the inclusiveness habit spreads the search, and Discourse “A” begins to merge with Discourse “B”.

Writing

POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS1. China's Sacred Literature (English)

http://www.slideshare.net/qiaokate/resonance-20131214-en-29594114

2a. China's Development Pattern as Found in its Sacred Literature (English)http://www.slideshare.net/qiaokate/chinas-development-pattern-as-found-in-its-sacred-literatureda-tong-conf-20130620-en

2b. China's Development Pattern as Found in its Sacred Literature (Chinese)http://www.slideshare.net/qiaokate/21-29593948

3a. The Great Harmony (English)http://www.slideshare.net/qiaokate/the-great-harmony

3b. The Great Harmony (Chinese)http://www.slideshare.net/qiaokate/the-great-harmony-chinese

4a. China's Resources and Potentialities (English)http://www.slideshare.net/qiaokate/china-r-p-en-201001231

4b. China's Resources and Potentialities (Chinese)http://www.slideshare.net/qiaokate/china-resources-and-potentialities-chinese

5. A Selection of Contemporary Design by Younger Mainland Chinese Architects, 2014 http://www.slideshare.net/qiaokate/chinas-younger-architects-2014

Prepared for the International Research Workshop: A Cross-Cultural Transfer of Building Environmental Information, March 14-16, 2002, at the Liu Center for the Study of Global Issues, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. The conference paper was published, July 2003, as a chapter in Buildings, Culture and Environment: Informing Local & Global Practices, edited by Raymond J Cole and Richard Lorch.

Contemporary Chinese Architectural and Planning Practice: Aspirations and Challenges

ARTICLESThe Maturation of Citieshttp://www.townsnet.cn/artWriting/writing/papers/theCity/theCity.htm

http://www.townsnet.cn/artWriting/writing/papers/chinasArchitectsAndPlanners/chinasArchitectsAndPlanners.htm

BOOKSome Thoughts on China and the New World OrderChina Worker’s Publication Company, Beijing, China, 2009 http://ebook.newlightbook.com/book_show.asp?id=139 (Downloading is a little slow. Patience!)

The Great Unity and China’s Development Pathhttp://www.slideshare.net/qiaokate/the-great-unity-da-tong-draft-2014-01-02bilingual

http://www.slideshare.net/qiaokate/21-29593948

http://www.slideshare.net/qiaokate/china-resources-and-potentialities-chinese

http://www.slideshare.net/qiaokate/chinas-younger-architects-2014

http://ebook.newlightbook.com/book_show.asp?id=139

http://ebook.newlightbook.com/book_show.asp?id=139

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Sheff Lecture by Joe Carter 2014_11_24

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