round table at 751
Cannon Design organized last Sunday a round table at the 751 lecture hall coinciding with the exhibition ‘Unmade in China’ presented at the 2012 Beijing Design Week.
The event started with a short introduction of made and unmade projects done by several offices featured in the exhibition to continue with a discussion about the particular characteristics of the design process in the Chinese market.
Brechtje Spreeuwers, researcher at Go West Project, Michael Tunkey, principal at Cannon Design, Luis Aguirre (AQSO), Jan Felix, director Sparch and Shu Yan Chan, associate at UNStudio, shared their points of view about the typical project conditions and requirements given by the clients, -often unsettled-, the mutation, recycling and imitation of ideas happening in this scenario as well as the singularities of the working method, adapted to offer architectural solutions in a limited and competitive time-frame.
Oct 01, 2012
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Organized by ‘Beijing Design Week’, Dashila(b) and Capital M, the event included speakers such Kenya Hara, designer from Nippon Design Center and director of design for MUJI, Fang Zhenning, curator of the Chinese pavilion of the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, Liang Jingyu, architect from Approach Architecture, Giannantonio Bongiorno, curator of Hutopolis and Luis Aguirre from [...]
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The exhibition ‘(un)made in China’, organized by Cannon Design opened last Thursday at the ‘Ide@s gallery’ in Shanghai. The retrospective features a selection of twelve projects developed by international offices and aims to show not only the value of the architecture itself, moreover the process and the experience of these architects when facing the challenge [...]
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