Shanghai Expo 2010 – Pre-trip Seminar (1) 

Shanghai Expo - Master Planning and Planning Issues
 
 
 
Guest Speaker
 
Professor WU Giang, Vice President, Tongji University, Shanghai; Former Director General of Shanghai Municipal Urban Planning Administration Bureau 
 
Date:  20 January 2010 (Wednesday)
 
Time:  7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
 
Place:   The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups
             The Theatre, 7/F, 21 Pak Fuk Road, North Point, Hong Kong  (Quarry Bay, MTR Exit C)
 
 
Cost:    HK$30 per head
 

Organiser:  HKIP
 

Tentative Outline of the Seminar
 Shanghai Expo – Master Planning
 Heritage buildings on the Expo Site: Conservation, Reuse and Integration
 Planning Issues and solutions
  

About the Speaker
Prof. WU Jiang, Planner and 1st Class Registered Architect of China, is currently the Vice President of Tongji University, Shanghai.  He is the Vice Chairman of Shanghai Architecture Society, and the Steering Council Member of the Architecture Society of China (ASC), as well as the honorary member of Sculpture Society of China (SSC). He is also the editorial committee member of several top academic journals such as TIME + ARCHITCTURE (Tongii University), WORLD ARCHITCTUM (Tsinghua University), URBAN PLANNING FORUM (Tongji University) and PUBLIC ARTS (Shanghai University).
 
Prof. WU has been teaching History and Theory of Architecture, Urban Design, and Historical Preservation in Tongii University from 1986 to 2003; a visiting scholar in the University of Hong Kong from 1993 to 1994; a senior visiting scholar in the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University from 1996 to 1997.  In the past 20 years, Wu has published more than l0 books and more than 60 articles in his research fields on western architect history and theory, as well as Shanghai modern city architecture history and built conservation study.  From 1998 to 2001, he was the Deputy Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning in Tongji University, and from 2001 to 2003, he was the Assistant President of Tongji University.  From 2003 to 2008, Professor Wu was the Deputy Director General of Shanghai Municipal Urban Planning Administration Bureau.

Registration
All members are welcome.  As there is a limit no. of seats the premises can accommodate.  Therefore, registration for the seminar will be on first-come-first-served basis.
 
Please contact HKIP for more details and fax or email your particulars to HKIP (Attn. Ms Monique Tai, Tel. No. 2915 6212, Fax No. 2915 7616 or email at hkiplann@netvigator.com) for reservation:
 
 

Flyer:

Seminar on 20 Jan 2010.pdf

Reply Slip:

Seminar 20 Jan 2010 (registration form).doc



 
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