KYOTO Design Lab [D-lab] will hold public lectures by Adrien Verschuere [Baukunst / EPFL] and WOHA (Mun Summ Wong + Richard Hassell).

Looking forward to seeing you.

Time: 15:00-18:30 Friday 14 February, 2020
Venue: 60th Anniversary Hall, Kyoto Institute of Technology
Admission free

Technic as Space

Lecturer
Adrien Verschuere [EPFL]

Summary
The lecture will investiguate technic as a mean of unveiling alternative production of spaces. Instead of through the inexorable permanence of its forms, architecture will be considered here as a “dispositive”, engaging new types of relationship between built and non-built environment, assuming its potential as both being a spatial « agent » and a « product » of its time, able to re-unite humans and non-humans, subjects and objects.

Biography
Studies in Architecture at ISA St-Luc Tournai, Belgium and at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (diploma with Prof. E. Zenghelis in 1999). He was a design architect at the office of Herzog & de Meuron, Basel between 2000 and 2003 and collaborated with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture – Rem Koolhaas, Rotterdam until 2001. Adrien Verschuere is the co-founder of the architecture firm Made in, Geneva, Switzerland. 
In 2008, he established BAUKUNST in Brussels and from 2017 in Lausanne. Besides his current teaching position at the Université Catholique de Louvain, diploma tutor, Adrien Verschuere is regularly invited as guest critic or lecturer in various institutions, among others : the FAUP Porto, IRGE Universität Stuttgart, Berlage Institute Rotterdam,  USI Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio, ETH Zürich and the EPF Lausanne. In 2017, the first built projects were both nominated to the Mies van der Rohe Award.
From 2019, Adrien Verschuere is Visiting Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Garden City, Mega City: strategies for the 21st century sustainable city

Lecturer
WOHA(Mun Summ Wong + Richard Hassell)

Summary
The 21st century promises to be very different from the 20th century: we face global warming, unprecedented population growth, limited space and natural resources. So why are cities being planned using components that were developed in post-war Europe and America?
In this lecture, WOHA Founding Directors Mun Summ Wong and Richard Hassell will speak about the trajectory that WOHA’s projects have taken on from climatically appropriate designs, to skyrise greenery, to holistic designs that not only focus on the environment but also build and foster communities. They will share ideas on what the designers of hyper dense cities of the 21st century could and should be doing to make them great places to live.

Biography
WOHA was founded by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell in 1994. Rather than being overwhelmed by the challenges of climate change, population growth and urbanisation, the Singapore-based practice researches and innovates new architectural and urban solutions to tackle the problems of the 21st century.
WOHA has accrued a varied portfolio of work and is known for its distinct approach to biophilic design and integrated landscaping. The practice has won a number of architectural awards, most recently the 2019 Urban Habitat and Best Mixed-Use Building awards from the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and 2018 World Building of the Year for Kampung Admiralty and 2018 Best Tall Building Worldwide for the Oasia Hotel Downtown.
WOHA’s Platinum Green Mark-rated PARKROYAL on Pickering hotel has become one of Singapore’s most iconic buildings, receiving the 2015 CTBUH Urban Habitat Award, the 2014 Design for Asia Grand Award and the 2013 World Architecture News Hotel of the Year Award.
The practice currently has projects under construction in Singapore, India, China and Australia.
A travelling exhibition devoted exclusively to their work opened at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Germany, in December 2011, and four monographs have been published on WOHA’s projects to date. “Garden City Mega City”, a summation of their template for rethinking architecture and cities for the 21st century was published in 2016.
WOHA’s “Garden City Mega City” exhibition opened at The Skyscraper Museum in New York in March – September 2016 and thereafter in Mexico for the Mextropoli Festival from March – April 2017. The exhibition returned to the United States in February – April 2018 where it was on show at the Austin Central Library in Texas.

Kampung Admiralty © Darren Soh

Oasia Hotel Downtown © Patrick Bingham-Hall

PARKROYAL on Pickering © Patrick Bingham-Hall

SkyVille @ Dawson © Patrick Bingham-Hall

Richard Hassell and Mun Summ Wong © Studio Periphery