Updating China: The Avant-garde and Sustainability in its Contemporary Architecture
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, 13 Apr 2011 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm |
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| Location: | Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design |
| Cost: | free |
| URL: | http://home.design.iastate.edu/news.php?...ICLEID=420 |
| Contact: | ChiuShui Chan |
| Phone: | 515-294-8326 |
| Channel: | College of Design |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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Xiangning Li is an assistant dean and director of international programs as well as an associate professor in theory and criticism at Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shanghai, China. He has published extensively on contemporary Chinese architecture and urbanism, including a book based on his dissertation, The Real and the Imagined: An Analysis of Value Perspectives in Contemporary Urban Studies. Since 1999, Li has been a guest editor and frequent contributor to Time+Architecture, one of the leading architectural magazines in China.
He was a visiting scholar at MIT in 2006, and was a UFI fellow at MAK Center of Art and Architecture in Los Angeles and Erasmus Mundus visiting professor at TU Darmstadt, Germany, both in 2009. He has lectured widely, including at Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Southern California, and the Canadian Center for Architecture.
Li served as a curatorial consultant for 2007 Shenzhen Biennale and 2008 Shanghai Biennale as well as the Shanghai EXPO Village's public art program. He is the chief curator for the ongoing serial Sino-German forums and exhibitions sponsored by the Goethe Institute, Germany. He is also the curator of the 2010 Hainan Design Biennale and a co-curator of 2011 Chengdu Biennale. Li recently was appointed the director of the Shanghai Contemporary Architecture Culture Center, which will open in 2011.
Li received his doctorate from Tongji University in 2004.
Li's presentation is in conjunction with the "Updating China" exhibition on display in the Pickard Chilton Gallery of the King Pavilion and the Lightfoot Forum, both in the College of Design.