ARCHITECTURE’S CHALLENGES THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS

Qiaolun HUANG

FRENCH ARCHITECTURAL/CULTUREAL ICON IN CHINA

FRENCH FOOD IN CHINA

ARCHITECT AS ONE OF THE “WORST/MOST USELESS” PROFESSIONS.

NO DEMANDS?

FACEBOOK AS A OUTCOME OF DEMANDS?

OSCORP TOWER IN SPIDERMAN VS AL HAMRA TOWER IN REALITY

PART I

Sci-fi architecture in movies: a sideline or a profound indication to Architecture

"To me, it (Sci-Fi filmmaking) seemed an amazing opportunity to conceive an idea, build it, experience it, and be able to share it with people in a short period of time.” --- Joseph Kosinski

Long construction period and the turbulent economic and political environment

Culture-specific VS Non culture-specific

Local VS Global

The success of Zaha Hadid

Fixed location VS Travelling through time and space

Fetish for digital rendering/architectural animation

Fetish for iconographic diagrams

“Old-fashion” diagrams from Peter Esienmen Bjarke Ingels

Concept and story as disseminatable mediums

Popularity of image-based architecture websites

PART II Revolutionary changes around us

Mark Zuckerberg + Frank Gehry = ??

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Space that generates revolution does NOT mean revolutionary space

In the information age, the space you need for revolutionary changes:

Architecture become more and more irrelevant to the social revolutionary changes.

From church, palace to expo, train station, bank, factories etc.

Architectural revolutions after the First and Second Industry Revolution

Mutual benefits

Architectural revolutions after the information revolution??

Parametricism

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Architecture fails to benefit from the raising of grassroot and participatory culture

"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. "

“ The culture of the 21st century will be the culture of dissemination and dispersal."

Ending quotes

Rem Koolhaas