This is an interview series of The Beijing Urban Architecture Biennale (BUAB) 2020’s pilot exhibition, where 20 internationally renowned architects are invited, including:
Andres Jaque,
Carlo Ratti,
Herman Hertzberger,
Juan Carlos Sancho,
Kengo Kuma,
Kenneth Frampton,
Massimilano Fuksas,
Nader Tehrani,
Pascal Flammer,
Patrik Schumacher,
Peter Cook,
Peter Eisenman,
Rafael Moneo,
Rem Koolhaas,
Ricardo Bofill,
Sancho Madridejos,
Sou Fujimoto,
Studio Fuksas,
Toyo Ito,
Thom Mayne,
Thomas Heatherwick,
Winy Maas.
(Names are in alphabetical order.)
The interviews revolve around these 5 questions:
- How should architecture seek a balance between all the complex parameters?
- Is architecture going towards arts in the future? Or technology?
- Where's the boundary of the architecture discipline?
- What kind of city is Beijing?
- What kind of biennial is needed in Beijing?
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About Nader Tehrani
Nader Tehrani is an Iranian-American designer and educator. He is the Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York, and previously a professor of architecture at MIT, where he served as the Head of the Department from 2010 to 2014. He has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Toronto. He is also Principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry.
Tehrani’s work has been recognized with notable awards, including eighteen Progressive Architecture Awards, AIA Cote Top Ten Award in 2019 and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture in 2007. He is also selected as the recipient of the 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, an award which is given “to an architect of any nationality who has made a significant contribution to architecture as an art.
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About Global Knowledge LeiFeng
Co-organizer of the Beijing International Urban and Architecture Biennial 2020. In charge of nominating and inviting internationally renowned architects to this series, as well as organizing oversees teams to conduct interviews and filming.
An architectural intellectual media initiated by Prof. Rong Zhou of Tsinghua University. A community of more than 300 members from over 50 institutes around the world, committed to knowledge collection. LeiFeng originally means virtuous volunteers in mandarin. Here it represents a group of architecture enthusiasts who dedicate to share their knowledge with a larger community. Knowledge LeiFengs gather and consolidate the latest information and news around the world, to deliver to you the most up-to-date knowledge about architecture and related disciplines.
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