AIA Shanghai Lecture | Alvin Huang
'Technology / Technique / Techné'

It can be said that the catalyst for every major advancement within the discipline of Architecture has been a parallel advancement of technology. Recently the introduction of computation within the field of Architecture has enabled new generative design techniques, new digital fabrication processes, and new performative building technologies. However, technology is not the end (solution), but rather the means (provocation).  In this talk Alvin Huang, AIA shares the exploratory practice of his firm Synthesis Design + Architecture, an award-winning design research practice and that leverages technology as a means to challenge convention and imagine alternatives.

Associate Professor - University of Southern California School of Architecture, Los Angeles, USA

Founder - Synthesis Design + Architecture, Los Angeles, USA

www.synthesis-dna.com

Biography - Alvin Huang, AIA

ALVIN HUANG, AIA is an award-winning architect, designer, and educator specializing in the integrated application
of material performance, emergent design technologies and digital fabrication in contemporary architectural
practice. His work spans all scales ranging from hi-rise towers and mixed-use developments to temporary pavilions
and bespoke furnishings.

His work has been published and exhibited widely and has gained international recognition with over 30 distinctions
at local, national, and international levels including being selected of as one of 50 global innovators under the age of
50 by Images Publishing in 2015, being featured as a "Next Progressive" by Architect Magazine in 2014, and being
named one of Time Magazine's 25 Best Inventors of 2013. He has been an invited critic, guest lecturer, and keynote
speaker at various institutions in the US, Canada, Mexico, Chile, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Israel, India, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, and China.

Registration

AIA Members - Free

Non Members - RMB100

Those who do not register in advance may pay 100RMB at the door if seating is available

Time

May 25, 2018

6:30pm - 9pm