Cole Roskam | Designing Reform: Architecture in Post-Mao China
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Building 7, 7-429
77 MASSACHUSETTS AVE, Cambridge, MA 02139
MIT Department of Architecture / Fall 2017 Lecture Series
HTC Forum, organized by Elizabeth Brown and Caroline Murphy, PhD students, History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art, Department of Architecture
Cole Roskam has been an associate professor of architectural history and theory in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong since 2010. His research and teaching include topics in 20th century and contemporary architectural and urban history as well as theory. He is particularly interested in understanding architecture’s role in mediating moments of transnational interaction and exchange between China and other parts of the world. His articles and essays have appeared in Architectural History, Artforum International, Grey Room, the Journal of Architectural Education, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, among others.
He is currently working on a book manuscript based upon his dissertation, Civic Architecture in a Liminal City: Shanghai, 1842-1937. A second book project, provisionally titled Designing Reform: Post-Revolutionary Architectural Culture in the People’s Republic of China, 1973-1989, considers China’s engagement with international architectural methods of design, discourse, and pedagogy following the Cultural Revolution. Other ongoing projects include topics of transnationalism, the problem of translation, architecture and dissent, and Hong Kong.
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