Lecture Go West at Tongji University, May 19

How does Kunming deal with its history?
Where in Shijiazhuang can you find farmers?
What is the relation between modern architecture and urban villages in Lanzhou?

The Go West Project tries to answer these and more questions in a lecture at  Tongji University / College of Architecture and Urban Planning, this Wednesday. The lecture will give an overview of urbanization in China, and will deeper go into three phenomena in three different cities in central and western China.

DETAILS

May 19, 10.00 AM

College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University
Auditorium Hall, Building B
1239 Siping Road
Shanghai

ABOUT US

Daan Roggeveen is a free-lance architect who worked in MADA s.p.a.m. Shanghai and NL Architects Amsterdam. He has realized exhibitions, prize-winning competition submissions and interior design projects. His photographic work emphasizes on the contemporary city and its development, varying from real estate adds in Ukraine to parking in Belgium.

Michiel Hulshof works as China-correspondent for the Dutch weekly Vrij Nederland and the Netherlands Press Agency (ANP). Between 2001 and 2008 he wrote for several newspapers, amongst which Vrij Nederland, de Volkskrant, die Tageszeitung and le Courier International. He is (co-)author of several books and publications, amongst others “Moralitime”, “Those Europeans are strange!” and “How to become a politician”.

Both Michiel Hulshof and Daan Roggeveen live and work in Shanghai, PRC.