China Building Heritage – Exhibition, Conferences, Round Tables

Since the end of the 20^th century, Chinese architects and urban planners have been challenged by a giant space production in China. But what are their attitudes towards history? Some are trying to relate with heritage in urban and rural areas creating new spaces, from domestic to public, from collective to individual, from culture to craft, from social to commercial use…

Different traditional and creative thinking introduce architecture and cities as a work of art bridging know-how, technology and social life. By using different processes and influences, they question their relation with the fundamental element of Chinese traditions. Being actor of a new reading on their own history they induce a new understanding of their culture and raise the question of heritage.

On an innovation path, this exhibition presents the work of most influential contemporary architects and planners as follow: 3andwich Design, Amateur Architecture Studio, Approach Architecture Studio, Archi-Union, Archstudio, Atelier Chen Haoru, Atelier Deshaus, AZL Architects, Jiakun Architects, Onearth Architecture / Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, O-Office, Original Design Studio, People’s Architecture Office, Rural Urban Framework / Hong Kong University, Trace Architecture Office, Vector Architects, ZAO/Standardarchitecture, ZHANG Jie / AN-Design Architecture, CHEN Yun / Dinghaiqiao Mutual Aid Society, Jérémy CHEVAL & Purple Roof Art Gallery, TM Studio, SHAO Yong, ZHOU Jian, ZHOU Ke

Date of exhibition: September 15, 2018 to January 20, 2019
Opening: September 15, 7pm
Location: Archipel Centre De Culture Urbaine, 21 place des Terreaux 69001 Lyon, France
Curators and production: Archipel Centre De Culture Urbaine, Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Saint-Étienne, École Urbaine de Lyon
With the kind support of: École Urbaine de Lyon, Parc International Cévenol / Centre d’Art Contemporain Sino-Français

Conferences and round tables in Lyon (in French and Chinese)

Saturday September 15, 2018: 11:30am-1pm – Round table “China Building Heritage”, with Caroline Bodolec (Centre d’études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine), Florence Graezer-Bideau (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Hua Li (Trace Architecture Office), Zhuo Min (China Academy of Arts), hosted by Valérie Disdier (Archipel Centre De Culture Urbaine) ; 2pm-2:30pm – Conference of Liu Yicun (Atelier Deshaus) ; 2:45pm-3:15pm – Conference of Chen Haoru (Atelier Chen Haoru) ; 3:30pm-5pm – Round table “China Building Heritage in Cities”, with Jérémie Descamps (Studio Sinapolis), Michel Lussault (Ecole urbaine de Lyon), Wu Shabing (Icomos Wuhan), Jiang Ying (O-Office), hosted by Jérémy Cheval (Ecole Urbaine de Lyon); 5pm-5:15pm – Fan Zhe introduces the Parc International Cévenol / Centre d’Art Contemporain Sino-Français

Sunday September 16, 2018: 11:30am-12pm – Conference of Hua Li (Trace Architecture Office); 12:15pm-12:45pm – Conference of Zhang Ke (Standardarchitecture); 1:45pm-3:15pm – Round Table “China Building Heritage in Rural Areas”, with Chen Haoru (Atelier Chen Haoru),  Fan Zhe (Parc International Cévénol / Centre d’Art Contemporain Sino-Français), Bruno Jean Hubert (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais), Marlène Leroux (Archiplein), Shao Yong (Université Tongji), hosted by Françoise Ged (Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine); 3:30pm-4pm – Conference of He Jianxiang (O-Office)

Location: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, 8 bis quai Saint-Vincent 69001 Lyon
Curators and production: Archipel Centre De Culture Urbaine, Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Saint-Étienne, École Urbaine de Lyon
With the kind support of: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, Nouvel Institut Franco-Chinois
See full program: China Building Heritage Leaflet ; Archipel Centre De Culture Urbaine

And to go further, some Chinese architects will also join Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine in Paris for conference and round table

Conferences and round table in Paris 

Monday September 17, 2018: 7pm – Les Entretiens de Chaillot, conference of He Jianxiang and Jiang Ying architects, O-office Architects, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Tuesday September 18, 2018: 6:30pm-8:30pm – Rendez-vous Chine, Nouveaux enjeux urbains et ruraux, nouvelles pratiques chinoises

Location: Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, 7 avenue Albert de Mun, Paris 16e, Métro Iéna or Trocadéro (Entretien de Chaillot: Auditorium; Rendez-vous Chine: Plateforme de la création architecturale)
Organizer: Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Observatoire de l’architecture de la Chine contemporaine
See full program and register here for Entretien de Chaillot: www.citedelarchitecture.fr/fr/evenement/jianxiang-he-et-ying-jiang-architectes-o-office-architects-guangzhou-guangdong-chine
See full program and register here for Rendez-vous Chine: www.citedelarchitecture.fr/fr/evenement/nouveaux-enjeux-urbains-et-ruraux-nouvelles-pratiques-chinoises