CAFAa Lecture Series
The CAFAa Lecture Series was initiated by the CAFA School of Architecture in 2018. Based in the front of academic architecture, it invites prestigious scholars, educators, architects and artists to take part in a variety of activities including discussions, lectures and conferences, to jointly construct international architectural platform that is critical, comprehensive and open.
Combination of keynote speech and relevant seminar is the highlight of this academic lecture series. CAFA has hosted Rem Koolhaas (Pritzker Architecture Prize Winner, Honorary Professor of School of Architecture at CAFA)'s "Recent Preoccupations" lecture and "Generic Village" seminar, Mosen Mostafavi (Former Dean of Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Honorary Professor of School of Architecture at CAFA)'s "Architecture and Situation" lecture and "Post Bauhaus: Intellectuals, Architecture and Social Regeneration" seminar, Cao Xun (pretigious landscape architect, professor at Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Special-term Professor of School of Archaeology and Museology at Peking University)'s three lectures “Chinese Art of Gardening”, "Chinese Landscape Masters" and "Gardening Master Zhang Nanyuan", and "Inheriting the Sage's Knowledge: Seminar on Cao Xun's Academic Thinking" seminar. On October 29, 2019, internationally prestigious architect, the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize Winner Arata Isozaki will give the fourth lecture of this academic series at CAFA - "Arata Isozaki: Third Space | IKI+SHIMA".
CAFA invites Mr. Isozaki to be the keynote speaker, not only because he's this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize Winner, or because of his twenty-year friendship with CAFA, but because of his many key practices that has transcended traditional planning and architecture since the 1960s, his critical thinking brimmed with poetic charisma, and the unique characters of his time refracted in his thinking. Like the "Arata Isozaki: Third Space" Oita exhibition revealed, the uniqueness likes in the experimental works in terms of "information collection, art cooperation and installations", in the "intercrossing" cultural activities in fields like "art, design, music and theater", and in the idea practices in fields like "thinking, fine arts, design and cultural criticism". In this lecture, Mr. Isozaki will elaborate on his cross-cultural experience since 1960s in microscopic narrative, using his 2019 Oita exhibition as a thread, and the postcolonial theorist Homi K. Bhabha's "Third Space" concept as a theoretical frame, to bring us the cultural and thinking practices that way transcend architecture itself, and to review and refelct on the many architectural movements he has encountered, triggered, got involved or intervened. Meanwhile, we are also very honored to invite some important history theorist, practical architects, intellectual artists to gather in CAFA in this autumn, take part in three discussions themed "The Architectural Movements since 1960s", "Arata Isozaki and China" and "Arata Isozaki and Contemporary Art", and discuss the complexity and energy of the time in Arata Isozaki's architectural ideas, cross-cultural practices and art criticisms from various perspectives. The scholars will also take the Chinese modernistic context as a foundation, the global course of history as a vision, the contemporary issues as an entry point, their individual experience and diverse practices as angle, to discuss the dialectical relationship between architectural movements and their times in a multi-cultural context - it will be both a reflection of history and a projection into future.
| About the Activity |
CAFAa Lecture Series Ⅳ
Lecture
Arata Isozaki: Third Space | IKI+SHIMA
Speaker
Arata Isozaki, internationally renowned architect and 2019 Pritzker Prize Winner
Presenter
Zhu Pei, professor and dean of School of Architecture at CAFA
Time
2019.10.29 14:30-16:00
Place
CAFA Lecture Hall
*The lecture does not require appointment.
Seminar
The Architectural Movements since 1960s
Part 1: The Architectural Movements since 1960s
Part 2: Arata Isozaki and China
Part 3: Arata Isozaki and Contemporary Art
Presenter
Zhu Pei, professor and dean of School of Architecture at CAFA
Participating Architects
Zhang Yonghe, renowned artist, architecture educator, professor of School of Architecture at Tongji University, founder and chief architect of Atelier FCJZ
Wang Mingxian, architecture and art history scholar at Chinese National Academy of Arts, expert at CAFA Visual Art Innovation Institute
Liu Jiakun, renowned architect, founder and chief architect of jiakun arc, expert at CAFA Visual Art Innovation Institute
Shi Jian, renowned architecture critic, curator, partner of Archi Position
Zhou Rong, renowned architecture critic, architecture scholar, associate professor of School of Architecture at Tsinghua University, expert at CAFA Visual Art Innovation Institute
Zhang Li, professor and deputy dean of Tsinghua University, chief editor of World Architecture magazine
Zhang Lufeng, professor at Center of Architecture Research and Design at University of Chinese Acadey of Sciences
Li Xinggang, chief architect at China Architecture Design & Research Group, chief executive of Li Xinggang Architecture Studio
Wang Hui, renowned architect, founder and chief architect of URBANUS
Tong Ming, renowned architect, professor of Department of Urban Planning at Tongji University, founder and chief architect of TM STUDIO
Hua Li, renowned architect, founder and chief architect of TAO
Participating Artists
Liu Xiaodong, renowned artist and professor of School of Plastic Arts at CAFA
Zhang Zikang, director of CAFA Art Museum
Qiu Ting, renowned artist, professor and dean of Department of Landscape, School of Chinese Painting, CAFA
Time
2019.10.29 16:15-17:45
Place
CAFA Lecture Hall
| About the Speaker |
Arata Isozaki
Born 1931 in Oita City, Japan. In 1954 graduated from the Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. In 1963 established Arata Isozaki & Associates, the base from which he has continued to work ever since. From his 1960s work such as Oita Prfectural Library, to his 1990s work in locations such as far afield as Barcelona, Orlando, Krakow, Nagi in Okayama Prfecture, Kyoto, Nara and Berlin, to his 21st century work in the Middle East, China, Central Asia and elsewhere, Isozaki has created an architecture so personal in its ideas and spaces that it defies characterization in any single school of thought.
Academic Presenter
Fan Di'an, Lv Pinjing, Zhu Pei
Key Planners
Zhu Pei, Han Tao, Wang Zigeng, Hou Xiaolei, Liu Yanchen, Huang Liangfu, Liu Siyong, Zhang Qian
Poster Designers
Wang Zigeng, Gong Yi
Organizer
CAFA School of Architecture
Co-organizers
CAFA Visual Art Innovation Institute
CAFA Art Museum
CAFA Art Info