Abstract:PART 1 About Architecture and Urban Design Practice
Q1 There is a strong regionalism in your architectural ideas which reflect the introspective regionalism, a feature you had talked before, and so how to understand it?
Q2 Can you further clarify this idea regarding your architectural works?
Q3 You had studied high density houses, and would you talk about your views on high density cities?
Q4 You have proposed design ideas about from “m2 to m3: Micro-life”, and is it the kind of the residential model in the high density cities?
Q5 What is the ideal city in your mind?
Q6 How about such small cities in China?
Q7 As you mention Beijing as a megacity and are there some spaces impressing you deeply? Please give us an example.
PART 2 Teaching and Urban Design
Q8 You are always a tutor of supervising architectural design course, and urban design is an important direction of architecture as the first-level discipline, What is your understanding of urban design as a subject?
Q9 A lot of cities in China require high quality urban space and the nation al government advocates urban designing. How do you think about such situation?
Q10 In the end, do you have any idea about the development of China’s urban design? From the urban design perspective, what is your expectation from the young people?