The Shenkar Forum for Culture and Society is starting its sixth year of activity with a symposium on identity and globalization.
The forum will be dedicated to the topic of identity and globalization and there will be two key speakers from China: Professor Xiaodong Li and Professor Alexander Tzonis.
During the symposium Professor Xiaodong Li, head of the Architecture Department and a professor of History and Theory in the University of Tsinghua in Beijing, China, will review contemporary Chinese architecture and the question of globalization issues in the face of locate needs.
During his lecture Lee will critique the development of architecture in China while addressing the conflicts and contradictions that have typified the last three decades. He intends to examine, analyze and review architecture in China and provide insights about various perspectives of rehabilitation.
In the last part of the lecture he will present several of his own works. Professor Alexander Tzonis is a lecturer of architectural theory, a professor emeritus in Delft University of Technology, Program Director of DKS - Design Knowledge Systems Research Center, guest professor of the University of Tsinghua in Beijing, China. He will discuss the concept of third ecology that he developed with his mentor, the architect and designer Serge Chermayeff. They both co-wrote two important books that deal with this subject while working in Yale University. "First Ecology" is nature, "Second Ecology'" is range of technocratic and arrogant changes made by man to the environment that could be representative of an "entire world" completely separate from nature. In "Third Ecology" Tzonis presents the actual and symbolic interdependence between the natural world and the man-made world within the ecological system. Return to third ecology status is not a return to some abstract idea but rather a very real and practical plan that incorporates basic design with architectural tools and know-how, a plan that is developed and adapted to our current ecological state of affairs in the world. According to Professor Micha Levin, head of the Interdisciplinary Art Department in Shenkar College and moderator of the evening: "This is a rare opportunity to catch up on issues that are relevant to all the architectural world and gain information first-hand about Chinese architecture in the last thirty years". Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
Lorber Auditorium, Mitchell Building
14 Yeda Am, Ramat Gan Free entrance!
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2005