Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale Of Urbanism/Architecture 2011/12

The 2011/12 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture was on stage from the 15^th of February at the roof garden of Kowloon park. 50 teams, including the international well-known offices, Steven Holl, OMA, KPE among others will be the participants to the Biennale. JUT Foundation for Arts and Architecture is invited by Mr. Gene K. King who is the leading curator of Taiwan’s participation in the Biennale. Three projects, <Illegal Architecture>,<The Vertical Village>, and <Ruin Academy> will be presented. Another exhibition room of Taiwan will be showing <Urban Network Booting>, which is curated by Professor Shu-Chang Kung, Chun-Tei Tseng and Wei Tseng from Graduate Institute of Architecture of National Chiao Tung University.

  

  

  

The three subjects, illegal constructions, villages and ruins are represented and are correspond to the theme of Bi-City Biennale “Time, Space, People”. Considering the power represented by architecture, scrutinizing the rapid change of the environment, and meditating a future city, it is possible that the long-neglected spaces such as illegal constructions, villages and ruins are the familiar but obscure bases incubating our magnificent dream of a grand metropolis.

  

   

<Illegal Architecture- Exhibition of Architects Wang Shu X Hsieh Ying-Chun>, <The Vertical Village> and <Ruin Academy> were three major projects of JFAA which all combined the exhibition with massive research and workshops. The three projects all looked at the urban phenomena from different perspective and all came to realize between 2009 to 2011 when there was a rapid and sharp change over the saturated urban texture in Taipei. At the same time, they challenged the principles and the conditions of architectural practice and urban planning in Taipei.

As the changes of a city are more and more drastic, our ideas about architecture take shape more and more powerfully. These small bases, no matter how insignificant, they confronted the humanistic value of a city and our worldview through a macro scale. By offering different points of view, it is expected that the Taipei city could be better understood. Exhibition ends on 23 April 2012.