DECODING ASIAN URBANISM

DeCoding Asian Urbanism explores the current discourse and creation of innovative architecture and urban interventions that are effectively transforming the spatial and operational landscape of the complex Asian city. The focus is to highlight efforts that strategically embrace the rapid growth and the cultural and physical complexity of the built environment in Asia. The research builds on an exhibition at the A+D Architecture +Design Museum>Los Angeles, curated by Kenneth Frampton, Ken Yeang, and Farooq Ameen. The comprehensive effort includes the exhibition, a symposium, and accompanying publication intended to stimulate dialogue between designers, policymakers, and public officials who are shaping the Asian city today.

While the scale and pace of 21st-century urbanization is staggering and unprecedented, new urban development in Asia alone in the next two decades will likely exceed the urban growth worldwide of the last two hundred years. While Asian cities have historically drawn on their history and regional culture, this critical assimilation has been vastly superseded by the sheer velocity of urban growth inspired by external/global/western models. DeCoding Asian Urbanism focuses on those critical interventions that go beyond globalization to achieve a substantive systemic innovation in the Asian City.


Typology

Research, Urbanism

Location

Asian Cities

Year

2012-2020

Status

In Progress

Size

Client

Collaborators

A+D (Architecture and Design Museum), Harvard University Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asian Institute, Bengal Foundation, Art Center College of Design, Columbia University, Beijing University

Design Team

Farooq Ameen, Ovgu Nurozler, Nathaniel Berg, Maria Jose Herrero Gonzalez, Sameer Ameen, Brian Newman, Prem Mehta, Ibai Rigby, Stacey Rigley


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