The symposium on DeCoding Asian Urbanism explores the current discourse and creation of innovative architecture and urban interventions that are effectively transforming the spatial and operational landscape of the complex Asian city. The focus is to highlight efforts that strategically embrace the rapid growth and the cultural and physical complexity of the built environment in Asia. The symposium builds on an exhibition at the A+D Architecture +Design Museum>Los Angeles, curated by Kenneth Frampton, Ken Yeang and Farooq Ameen. The comprehensive effort including the exhibition, this symposium and accompanying publication stimulates a dialogue between designers, policy makers and public officials who are shaping the Asian city today.
09:00 Introduction
Rahul Mehrotra, South Asia Institute
Abul Khair, Bengal Foundation
Dora Epstein-Jones, A+D Museum
09:30 Keynote: Who Owns the City
Kenneth Frampton
10:30 Definition: Situating the Asian City
Edward Glaesar Triumph of the (Asian) City
Weiping Wu China’s Urban Transformation
Sarah Williams Ghost Cities – Beyond the Image
moderated by Kazi Ashraf
12:30 Lunch
01:30 Definition: Decoding the City
Peter G. Rowe De-Coding East Asian Cities Around Matters of Form
Rahul Mehrotra INDIA: Towards a Smart Urban Turn?
Qingyun Ma Manifesto: China Urbanism
moderated by Farooq Ameen
03:30 Coffee Break
04:00 Mediation: Responding to the City
Farooq Ameen deCoding Asian Urbanism
Jennifer Yoos Parallel Cities
Bimal Mendis A Model for the City of 7 Billion
moderated by Kenneth Frampton
06:00 deCoding Asian Urbanism
Presentation on the A+D Exhibition
Kulapat Yantrasast Experiencing the Code
06:30 Reception
09:00 Welcome
Farooq Ameen, A+D Museum
09:15 Keynote: Mediatory Urban Intervention
Saskia Sassen
10:00 Transformations 1: The Formal Response
Rafael Vinoly TBD
Ken Yeang Eco-Architecture and Eco-Masterplanning
Kashef Chowdhury Consciousness Of Place
moderated by Rahul Mehrotra
12:00 Lunch
01:00 Transformations 2: Dense Ecology:The Premise of Dhaka
Kazi Khaleed Ashraf A Theorem for a Liquid Urbanism
Anuradha Mathur Dhaka in an Estuary
Stephen Kieran Levittown Redux
moderated by Anita Berrizbeitia
03:00 Coffee Break
03:30 Transformations 3: The Sustainable Response
Kongjian Yu The Sponge City Campaign in China
Jonathan D. Solomon Hong Kong: Aformal Urbanism
Diana Balmori Putting the City in Nature
moderated by Peter G. Rowe
05:30 Closing Discussion
More about it: http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/decoding-asia-conference/