There are very few studies published concerning Chinese Modernist and Contemporary architecture. In most cases, they concern a repertoire of building cases with few critical notes. The intention of this conference is to contextualize the architecture in China in the last 120 years in the historical and cultural events in the complex scenario of the development of the 20th Century. The discussion is centred not only on the technical discussion on architecture, such as typology morphology and language, but mostly on the reasons which generate certain solution and decorative elements in key masterpieces in China.
What is more important in this analysis is to find the relationship between Chinese Modernist architecture under the influence of Western trends. This relationship can not simply be classified as “copy”. On the contrary, it is a complex relationship between Wester influence, Chinese identity and necessity, and even more the presence of Western Modernist architects in China beside Chinese architects who study in Europe and United States. Their talents, the quality of their work and even the geniality of certain solution testify a very complex debate, full of original idea and great professionalism which generate masterpieces in cities like Tianjin, Beijing, Qingdao, Guangzhou and so on. This debate is not limited on the Modernist architecture, but it is still vivid even today. The context of the Chinese architecture is particularly interesting because it expresses very precisely what Kenneth Frampton called “Critical Regionalism”, or the local interpretation of the international trendin architecture.
However, the conference will point out some fundamental concepts and examples in architecture from the Modernist age until the most recent cases in architecture built in China to illustrate some fundamental concepts in this difficult but fascinating fields.
Prof. Paolo Vincenzo Genovese
He is architect and Ph.D. in “Architectural and Environmental Technology”, graduate in Polytechnic of Milan with top score. Since 2004 he is full professor and also Master and Ph.D. tutor in the Schoolof Architecture of Tianjin University in China. He is the founder and director of Lab of Bionic Architecture & Planning Research Center in his university.Visiting professor in Polytechnic University of Milan and Roma “La Sapienza”. Since 2020 he open in the School of Architecture of Tianjin University the programBelt and Road Initiative for Culture. He has published eight monographs, tenbooks in cooperation, more than four-hundred papers and a novel.
His study, research and expertise concern design of architecture, bionic approach in the architecture planning, urban planning, restoration of traditional building and villages, history of modern architecture, metaphysics of ancient architecture, sustainable architecture, eco-villages, Data-Driven Analysis and Data-Driven Design.
In 2010 he won the “Haihe Friendship Award” in Tianjin for his cultural contribution in China. In 2018 he won Tianjin University Outstanding International Student Mentor, and in 2019 won the title of honorary citizenship villager of Lindian Xinmin Village. In 2019 he was invited to be aspecial expert of the Foreign Expert Advisory Committee of Beijing Global Talent Exchange Association. He is member of the prestigious Aspen Institute in Italy. He is actively involved in international conferences as keynote speaker.
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