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Seventh International Symposium on Asia Pacific Architecture to convene in Hawai'i
Hawai'i hosts the Seventh International Symposium on Asia
Pacific Architecture June 14-16, 2007 at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Architecture (UHM SoA).
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Seventh International Symposium on Asia Pacific Architecture to convene in Hawai'i
/Architecture PR News/ - HONOLULU, HI, June 08, 2007—Hawai'i hosts the Seventh International Symposium on Asia Pacific Architecture June 14-16, 2007 at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Architecture (UHM SoA).
The theme of the three-day conference, "Architecture + Movement," is shorthand for a host of challenges facing the modern architect—sustainability, emerging technologies, the environment, transit, infrastructure, and new concepts of community.
Keynotes for the event will include William Mitchell, author, MIT professor and director of the MIT Media Lab's Smart Cities research group; Donald MacDonald, FAIA, noted architect of bridges and historic bridge renovations; Robert Ivy, editor of the awardwinning publication Architectural Record, and National President of the American Society
of Landscape Architects, Pat Caughey.
This year's symposium is co-sponsored by UHM SoA and the Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning in Shanghai, China. Some sessions will be web cast with Tongji University—which hosted the last Asia-Pacific architecture symposium in Shanghai
in 2005.
Guest speakers, local and global, will offer participants unique perspectives from diverse places around the world. Architecture students will also be able to present their projects in this international setting.
Cultivating a local identity and maintaining cultural diversity while minimizing negative environmental impacts are reoccurring themes.
"Shanghai is where much of the building is taking place today," said UHM SoA Dean W.H. Raymond Yeh. "This is the second time the school is collaborating with Tongji University, and I anticipate a lively debate on the future of Asia-Pacific cities."
The symposium will focus on world, national and local issues. It's an opportunity for Asia-Pacific architects and planners to network and share their ideas.
UHM SoA offers the only nationally accredited professional doctoral program in architecture in the United States.
The Kenneth Brown Design Awards, to recognize design excellence in Asia Pacific Architecture, will hold an award presentation for the 2007 winners (Ana Heringer of Australia and Atushi Kitagawara of Japan) on Wednesday evening. Kitagawara will be on hand to receive the award at the opening reception.
Private developers, government planners, students and the public are invited to attend. Details and registration information are available by calling 808-956-3469.
June 14-16 Seventh international Symposium topics to include:
1.) Urban Systems - transit, communication, emerging urban technology, sustainability
How is technology keeping up with the new urbanization and how is this affecting the built environment? This discussion topic will include examining new developments against historical precedents and will project probable future urban design scenarios.
2.) Impacts of the New Mobility - migration and new urban form
While the Asian population, particularly in China, urbanizes in the largest migration in human history, America is the opposite, decentralizing to the suburbs with alarming speed. What are the roles of the automobile and other modes of transit in these developmental movements?
3.) The Bio-regionalism - urbanization, green space and environmental impact
The positive and negative impacts of the new urbanization in human terms will be discussed with case studies including the bio-regionalism concept which emphasizes integration of land use with natural systems such as parks and agriculture within the city to minimize the negative environmental impacts of human movement while providing biological and cultural diversity.
4.) Urban Housing and People Movement Matrix
Is there an identifiable matrix of movement of housing dwellers and their needs?
What are the new neighborhood and community structures and how could they be enhanced to support the new city population?
5.) Student Creative Design Projects
Selected student projects from the different schools on the topics of Architecture and Movement inclusive of the concerns of the previous sessions will be presented and discussed.
6.) Movement of Information and Ideas
Global networks have enabled the global village predicted fifty years ago by Marshall McLuhan. It took most of that time for universities and other institutions to recognize this new environment of information, and capitalize upon it. How are the new institutions in Asia Pacific being prepared to participate? How can the lags between innovation and application be accelerated?
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