Dezeen is teaming up with Chinese language studio MAD to host a dwell speak about the way forward for Beijing with the agency’s founder Ma Yansong, architect Peter Prepare dinner and the founders of Drawing Structure Studio. Watch right here at 9:30am London time on Friday 17 March.
The speak coincides with the top of Blueprint Beijing, an exhibition curated by Ma and executed by MAD.
Blueprint Beijing shaped the structure element of the Beijing Biennale, and invited 20 architects and artists from all over the world to current work themed round the way forward for Beijing.
Prepare dinner and Drawing Structure Studio have been amongst the architects invited to take part, and can current their contributions to the exhibition in the course of the speak.
The dialog shall be moderated by Dezeen’s editor-at-large Amy Frearson, and can discover the previous, current and way forward for Beijing’s structure.
Ma based MAD in 2006 and now leads the studio alongside his companions Dang Qun and Yosuke Hayano.
The agency’s initiatives embody city planning, giant complexes, municipal buildings, museums, theatres, live performance halls, and housing.
Amongst MAD’s accomplished initiatives are an undulating concrete library in China, a stadium embedded within the floor and lined in grass roofs additionally in China, and a Passivhaus housing block surrounded by white curved balconies in Paris.
The agency’s Lucas Museum of Narrative Artwork is at present beneath development in Los Angeles, and it not too long ago unveiled plans for a feather-like terminal for Changchun airport in China.
British architect Prepare dinner at present practices alongside Erlend Blakstad Haffner at Prepare dinner Haffner Structure Platform, the agency that the pair co-founded.
Prepare dinner’s contribution to Blueprint Beijing includes an in-depth exploration of two of his drawings, titled Filter Metropolis and Metropolis as a Room.
Prepare dinner is greatest identified for co-founding the avant-garde structure group Archigram alongside Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb within the Nineteen Sixties.
The group put ahead a collection of radical proposals together with a miniature capsule house and a city-airship hybrid.
Archigram received the Royal Gold Medal in 2002 – regardless of by no means having constructed a constructing collectively – in recognition of the affect their conceptual work has had on generations of architects.
Li Han and Hu Yan based Beijing-based apply Drawing Structure Studio in 2013. The conceptual apply explores the trendy Chinese language metropolis via intricate architectural drawings that map, distort and replicate on present areas.
The studio’s works have been exhibited at occasions together with the 4th Chicago Structure Biennial, the Chinese language and Japanese pavilions on the sixteenth Venice Structure Biennale, and the seventh Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-Metropolis Biennale of Urbanism and Structure, amongst others.
Works by Drawing Structure have been acquired by museums all over the world together with the Museum of Fashionable Artwork in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Fashionable Artwork, and The Artwork Institute of Chicago.
Partnership content material
This speak was produced by Dezeen for MAD as a part of a partnership. Discover out extra about Dezeen partnership content material right here.