SOUTHERN CHINA METROPOLIS: Urbanism of the Greater Bay Area

NYIT-Tsinghua University Symposium
November 18, 2020, 7:00pm
Online Event

This symposium aims to explore issues related to the urban metropolitan regional of the Pearl River Delta region, also known as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of Southern China. During the past four decades, since the initiation of China’s Open Door Policy and the establishment of Special Economic Zones, Guangdong Province, population 115m, has been transformed from a largely rural territory to a complex mix of urbanization, industry and agriculture. Amidst the context of the greatest speed and extent of urbanization ever to occur, southern China has attracted migration from all over China, worldwide investment into the “world’s factory”, and the sustained attention, interest, and involvement of architects in China and abroad. A variety of experts in practice and academia will contribute to this event with presentations followed by a panel discussion, reflecting on the history of this unprecedented urban transformation, its present conditions, and importantly, to speculate on the future of urbanism in Southern China.
This symposium is a collaboration between SoAD-NYIT and Tsinghua University Graduate School of Architecture in Shenzhen, China.

Welcome & Introduction: Maria R. PERBELLINI, Dean, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology
Organized by: Tom VEREBES, Professor, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology
Moderated by: Giovanni SANTAMARIA, Chair, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology
Presenters / Panelists:
Eunsook CHOI, Director, KPF, New York
GAO Yan, Associate Professor, Future Human Habitat, Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen; Principal Architect, HCD-iDEA Design & Research, Hong Kong, Shenzhen
LI Shiqiao, Weedon Professor in Asian Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
Esther LORENZ, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
Jeffrey RAVEN, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology
David Grahame SHANE, Adjunct Professor in Urban Design, Columbia University GSAPP
Tom VEREBES, Professor, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology
XU Weiguo, Executive Dean, Future Human Habitat, Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen