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introduction
Nearly all large architectural firms in the United States find themselves competing for projects in China, many with nearly half of their work load being done in its rapidly developing urban areas. It is likely that most if not all of our students who enter practice will at some point work on a large-scale project in China. The imperatives for architectural academia engaging in the modernization of China are not only economic, but also intellectual and ethical. Whereas China's wealthier and smaller neighbor, Japan, has the most sophisticated and fully developed indigenous language of modern architectural expression, China, the largest country in the world, does not. New strategies for indigenous and sustainable urban transfigurations are equally urgent.
The University of Florida School of Architecture's professors and students are expertly poised for engaging these critical issues. With our school's strong design and theory curriculum, supported by the familiarity of several members of the faculty with China, we are becoming particularly effective and advantaged, in publishing and implementing applied design research in the emerging field of Chinese modern architecture and contemporary urbanism. Following on internal developments over several years, and on University-based objectives for internationalization, the Hong Kong-China Program was successfully launched with 21 students and 3 faculty participants in May 2004.
The program attracts applicants with strong interest in attaining a global edge ' academically and professionally - through exposure to design research and practice in China, and has given students and faculty an advantage in pursuing international scholarships and grants, positions with international firms, and other opportunities in Asia.
Program director, Nancy Margaret Sanders and co-director, Robert MacLeod lead students on tours of a wide range of significant historic and contemporary buildings and complexes including the scholar gardens of Suzhou, the imperial palaces of Beijing, vernacular Shanghai lilong and Beijing hutong housing, walled villages of Hong Kong, traditional temples, bamboo opera structures, 16th century Portuguese colonial architecture in Macau, contemporary high-rise housing and retail complexes, Norman Foster's Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, and the acclaimed contemporary houses at the Commune by the Great Wall. The design research of the program focused this past year on emerging high-density suburbs and the ubiquitous new 'podium-city' housing developments in the New Territories of Hong Kong and was exhibited at the 1a Space Gallery in Kowloon.
Design Education Across Cultural and Geographical Borders
The University of Florida School of Architecture Hong Kong-China Program is meeting the challenges of academic internationalization, exchange, and globalization.
Top Students:
Twenty-one graduate and undergraduate students were selected from 35 strong
applicants eager to participate in the program. The program is receiving
wide interest and promises to be an asset in attracting graduate students
to the School of Architecture in the future.
Historic Sites and Cultural Experiences:
Program participants explored a wide range of significant historic and
contemporary buildings and complexes including the scholar gardens of
Suzhou, the imperial palaces of Beijing, vernacular Shanghai lilong and
Beijing hutong housing, walled villages of Hong Kong, traditional temples,
bamboo opera structures, 16th century Portuguese colonial architecture
in Macau, contemporary high-rise housing and retail complexes, Norman
Foster’s Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, and the acclaimed contemporary
houses at the Commune by the Great Wall.
 UF students analyzing a Suzhou water garden |
 Traditional ‘lilong’ housing in Shanghai |
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| UF student, Jose Jordan, analyzes a Suzhou garden (left); Students and faculty visit a remote temple in the outskirts of Hong Kong (center); students experience the old city fabric of Yau Ma Tei in Kowloon (right). |
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Custom Language and Culture Lessons:
Through twice-weekly custom-catered Cantonese and Mandarin language lessons,
students gained exposure to Chinese culture, language, and history, opening
up possibilities for them to bridge east-west divides in their education
and career choices. Faculty also participated in the lessons, expanding
their opportunities to build academic and professional ties in China.
Students also enjoyed a traditional Chinese painting workshop organized by Lina Li of the UF Beijing Center for International Studies.
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| UF Students take a break in a local YauMaTei café (left), and students have a chance to try their language skills inside the Tin Hau Temple. | |
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| UF students and faculty at the Executive Mandarin Learning Center where they received 5 weeks of Chinese language training; Students Saji Matuk and Holly Trick test their language skills while enjoying a traditional Peking duck meal with a local intern from the Urbanus firm in Beijing (center); students Coral Brandt and Marco Downs learn traditional Chinese painting techniques (right). | ||
Forum Discussions/Workshops with Host Universities:
Dynamic and interactive dialogues and workshops were held with three major Universities – Shenzhen University Department of Architecture, hosted by Gong Wei Min, Chair; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, hosted by Professor Liu Shixing; and Tsinghua University Department of Architecture, Beijing hosted by Vice Dean Xiao. Program participants toured their schools of architecture, surveyed exhibitions of student work, and participated in discussions with program heads, faculty, and students.
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| UF faculty and students discuss urbanization issues with Shenzhen University architecture professors. | UF students discuss first year architectural models with vice dean Xaio at Tsinghua University |
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| Prof. Liu Shixing gives a presentation to UF students and faculty on the Jiao Tong architecture program. | Students Coral Brandt and Freida Speicher chat with a first year student in her studio at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. |
Engaging K-12 internationally:
UF SOA students gave a lively and interactive presentation to
thirty pupils from a primary school during the program’s public
exhibit at 1a Space Gallery in Hong Kong.
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| University of Florida student Richie Gelles gives an interactive presentation to Hong Kong school children. |
Scholarship and Other Academic Opportunities Created:
The following students received prestigious scholarships to help fund their participation in the program: Freida Speicher, Marco Downs, Michael Chevariat; Students Wei-che Weng and Sonia Mak (HK-China Program 2004 particpant) received graduate teaching assistantship to help with the program; Three students from the 2004 program, Silan Yip, Adam Casey, and Richie Gelles have been hired by award-winning firms enabled by their participation in the program and the assistance of Professors Sanders and MacLeod. Ms Yip and Mr. Casey will join the Hong Kong firm of R.A.D. ltd. And Mr. Gelles will join the firm of Urbanus in Beijing. Mr. Gelles was also awarded first place in the UF film festival for his documentary video on Hong Kong for his seminar course with Professors Sanders and MacLeod.
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| UF graduate teaching assistant Sonia Mak inspects architectural
model of Shanghai at the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall (left),University
Scholar recipient, Silan Yip, studies the Suzhou gardens (center)
and graduate student Derek Winning sketches the Pudong Special Economic
zone from Shanghai’s tallest building. |
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UFIC scholarship recipient, Freida Speicher, studies a stair detail in the newly built Planning Building by Urbanus in Shenzhen. |
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Research Imperatives of the UF SOA in Asia
The University of Florida School of Architecture Hong Kong-China Program is committed to creating and supporting faculty research and publication.
Opportunities for Faculty:
Dr. Diana Bitz, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, received
a grant and a stipend to help support her participation in the program
as a way to develop scholarly research on the subject of the contemporary
Asian city. Dr. Bitz contributed extensively in the tours, forums, and
courses. She wrote an introductory essay for the studio exhibition booklet,
titled “Vernacular: Rice at the Banquet”
and also exhibited her research at the 1a Space Gallery.
Program director, Nancy Margaret Sanders and assistant director, Robert MacLeod, were able to further develop their research in the areas of high-density urbanism, Asian mega-cities, and contemporary practice in China. They presented their papers, “The Hypothetical Mega-Podium as Urban Infrastructure” and “Reinventing Sanshui: Emergence as an Urban Strategy” at the Sixth International Symposium on Asia Pacific Architecture held at Tongji University, Shanghai in June 2005. All students on the program also took part in the symposium, viewing multiple symposium-related exhibitions and attending keynote addresses, paper sessions, and banquets.
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| UF architectural history professor, Dr. Diana Bitz shares insights on historic preservation with members of the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design (left) and Professor Robert MacLeod gains insights into the nature of materials and craftsmanship in contemporary Chinese construction. | |
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A visit to Tsinghua University organized through the new UF Center for International Studies in Beijing. |
Asian Mega-Projects: Sixth International Symposium on Asia Pacific Architecture
This year, students and faculty participated in the international joint conference on Asia Pacific Architecture sponsored by Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Architecture. Professors Sanders and MacLeod presented two papers, one on their Hong Kong-China Program research. All students attended panel discussions, keynote addresses, exhibitions, and banquet activities during the 3-day conference, including lectures by architects Ken Yeang, Ole Scheeren of OMA Rotterdam, Haigo Shen, and Jonathan Barnett.
Grants
Program Director, Nancy Margaret Sanders, received a $3000 ‘Internationalizing the Curriculum Grant’ from the University of Florida International Center to support the studio curriculum of the program. Professor Sanders and Professor MacLeod have received three University Scholars stipends and 3 undergraduate research assistants in relation to their research with the program.
Publications about the program
“Summer Soujourns.” Gainesville Magazine. June/July 2005. vIII, No.3. P.57
“The Hong Kong Experience.” Perspective Magazine. 2004-2005. College of Design, Construction, and Planning.
“Capturing Impressions of Stilt-Life.” South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. May 2004. Short article on the Hong Kong-China program.
Scholarly Publications on Program Research
Sanders, Nancy Margaret. “Project on the Podium: Design Guidelines for Hong Kong’s Infrastructural Housing Pedestal.” The Fifth China Urban Housing Conference. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. November 2005.
Sanders, Nancy Margaret. “The Hypothetical Mega-Podium as Urban Infrastructure”. Asian Mega-Projects: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Asia Pacific Architecture. Tongji University. 2005. Shanghai.
Sanders, Nancy Margaret. “Super Podium: Hong Kong’s New Multi-functional Housing Base.” Proceedings of the Conference on Sustainable Building, South East Asia (SB04 Series). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2005.
Sanders, Nancy Margaret and Robert M. MacLeod. “vernacular METROPOLIS 1- Podium-city [hong kong]: Intertwining Scalar Extremes in a 60-story Village.” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference of Arts & Humanities. 2005. University of Hawaii.
Yip, Silan. “The Vertical Arcade.” The Journal of Undergraduate Research. University of Florida. 2005.
Global Opportunities: Engaging the Profession in Asia
The Hong Kong-China Program has developed a strong service mission toward professional and community liaison and collaborative endeavor on an international level.
Panel Discussion at the Institute of Planning Theory and Historic
City Conservation:
Hosted by the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design in Beijing, UF
SOA students and faculty participated in a panel discussion on issues
of urban development and planning with 15 professional and academic members
of the government institute. Following the forum, several participants
were given a guided tour on bicycles of the historic hutong houses in
central Beijing.
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| UF architecture students and faculty hear presentations and engage in a discussion on urban planning at the Institute of Planning Theory and Historic City Conservation in Beijing (left) and hear a developer’s point of view at the newest SOHO (stands for "small-office/home-office") experimental housing development. | |
Trade Forum at the Construction Industry Training Authority (CITA), Hong Kong
Hosted by CITA director Eddie K.S. Yiu, UF SOA students and faculty participated in a panel discussion on issues of construction technology in Hong Kong. Students were given a guided hands-on tour and workshop at the CITA facilities observing the training facilities and labs for such trades as traditional bamboo scaffolding.
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| Director Eddie K.S. Yiu leads UF architecture students and faculty on a tour of the Hong Kong Construction Industry Training Authority (left); and student Annaliet Pino tries her hand at traditional bamboo scaffold fastening (right). | |
Professional Office Forums:
Faculty and students were invited to numerous presentations given by award-winning architectural firms in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing including HOK Ltd., Hong Kong hosted by Paul Collins, senior associate; Urbanus - Shenzhen hosted by Liu Xiaodu, principal and Men Yan, principal; Edge Design Institute, Ltd., Hong Kong hosted by Gary Chang, principal; ARK Ltd., Hong Kong hosted by William Liu, principal; Urbanus – Beijing hosted by Wang Hui, principal; QiXin Architects and Engineers hosted by QiXin, President; and CSCEC + Design (Beijing) hosted by Selene Zhang, structural engineer for the Beijing Olympics swimming stadium. At the various professional firms, faculty and students participated in a review and discussion of design projects on the boards with firm principals, toured projects recently completed and under construction with project architects and engineers, and got to know firm principals and design architects on a personal basis over special meals and outings.
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| UF students and faculty view a presentation given by the Urbanus architectural practice in Shenzhen. |
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| Urbanus principal Xiaodu Liu leads UF students and faculty on a private tour of his recently completed Planning Building in Shenzhen (left); ARK principal, William Liu welcomes UF students and faculty to this Hong Kong firm for a presentation and discussion of his recent projects (right). |
 
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| Student Marco Downs inspects architectural model of the Beijing Olympic Swimming Stadium (left); Selene Zhang, CSCEC + Design structural engineer for the stadium, explains the mock ups of the building’s structural skin on site at the Beijing Olympic Green. |
Exhibition:
Prominent professionals, academics, and artists attended the program’s
opening reception of “Vernacular Metropolis 1” held at the
1aSpace gallery in Hong Kong, providing an opportunity to showcase UF
student work and faculty research and further the program’s mission
of international outreach and dialogue.
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| Architect Uli Kirkhoff of the RAD architectural practice and others inspect UF exhibit. |
The design research of the 2005 program, PROJECT ON THE PODIUM - Podium-city [hong kong]: Intertwining Scalar Extremes in a 60-story Village, will be on exhibit at the UF Architecture Gallery during the fall 2005 term.
Resources and Facilities
The UF SOA Hong Kong-China Program boasts outstanding resources, facilities, and accommodations:
Facilities
The Chinese University of Hong Kong: architecture library; computer lab; seminar rooms.
The University of Hong Kong: libraries.
Language laboratories and resources at Executive Mandarin Learning Center, Central Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Accommodations
Modern, safe, convenient, clean, and bright student accommodations at YWCA Garden View International House, providing classrooms and meeting rooms, gym and pool, phone, internet, restaurants, botanical gardens. Comfortable and convenient faculty accommodations at SHAMA serviced apartments, centrally located, phone, fax, and Internet.
China Accommodations
Beijing: A fully renovated 19th century courtyard house.
Shanghai: A grand colonial hotel near the historic Bund.
Macau: A new four-star hotel centrally located.
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| View of Hong Kong financial district from the botanical gardens adjacent to the YWCA Garden View International House (left); UF students and faculty enjoy historically and architecturally significant accommodations at a renovated Qing Dynasty courtyard house in Beijing (right). |
Areas of Future Development
The University of Florida School of Architecture Hong Kong-China Program is developing academic and professional opportunities in the following areas:
Professional Continuing Education
Currently developing a continuing education component for visiting architects offering continuing education units through the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR).
University of Florida Center for International Studies in Beijing
Joint program activities including upcoming Asia Education Forum sponsored by the China Ministry of Education.
Workshops and Joint Research Studios
Joint research activities are currently planned with Shanghai Jiao Tong University Department of Architecture and Shenzhen University School of Architecture. Future collaborators include Tsinghua University, Tongji University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Southeast University.
Lecture / Exhibition Series
Currently developing University of Florida School of Architecture “China Builds” lecture/exhibition series, bringing prominent design professional from China to speak at UF.
Traveling Exhibitions
Vernacular Metropolis I and II: Work from the 2004 and 2005 Hong Kong-China Program to travel to Beijing and Jakarta in 2005.
Publication Opportunity
Professors Sanders and MacLeod are preparing two publications inviting student and faculty essays on the subjects of Hong Kong’s sacred street shrines and high rise housing.
Scholarships
Expanding assistance in attaining scholarship and fellowship funding through the Program.
Graduate Teaching Assistantships
Currently offering two graduate teaching assistantships with the Program.
University Scholars Undergraduate Research
Assisting students in developing scholarly and applied research.
Undergraduate and Graduate Courses, Itineraries, and Special Events
Undergraduate
ARC 3291 Special Studies Seminar in Urbanism (3 credits)
ARC 4323 Design Studio VIII (6 credits)
Graduate
ARC 6912 Special Studies Seminar in Urbanism (3 credits)
ARC 6356 Graduate Design
Studio III (6 credits)
ARC 6912 Special
Studies Workshop (6 credits)
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| Graduate student Jeong Uk Lee presents his urban analysis drawings during a design studio class session. |
SPECIAL EVENTS - Hong Kong
Tai Chi demonstration on the Kowloon waterfront.
Traditional village festivities/bamboo opera; Cheung Chau Island annual bun festival
Traditional Junk’ boat trip to outlying islands and beaches.
Traditional meals with local distinguished guest architects.
Professional office visits and workshops at 3 major Universities give students insight to the rapid changes and advancements of the architecture profession in China.
Central and Western District Heritage Trail; Leung Yuk Tau Heritage Trail; Ping Shan Heritage Trail (traditional, active, walled villages, temples and ancestral halls).
Cultural Heritage tour of Macau.
Tours of contemporary buildings in Macau.
Tours of Central financial district including Foster’s Hong Kong Bank and I.M. Pei’s Bank of China
“The Great UF Shopping Tour” including ice-skating at Architeqtonica’s Festival Walk Mall.
Tours of traditional marketplaces including the Jade market, the Peel Street market, and the Temple Street Night Market.
Gallery Walk to current exhibits of modern Chinese art including the Shoeni Gallery, John Batten Gallery, Para/Site Art Space, Fringe Club, Artist Commune at the Cattle Depot, Hong Kong Arts Center and Hong Kong Visual Arts Center; Viewing of art film “Corbu” by Mathias Woo at the Sheung Wan Civic Center.
Hiking outings on Lantau Island.
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| Students examine a temporary vernacular bamboo opera construction in Hong Kong (left); Students sketch the contemporary museum on 16th c. Portuguese ruins of Sao Paolo in Macau (center); students sketch the skyline of Hong Kong from the roof gardens of the new International Finance Center by Cesar Pelli and Rocco Yim (right). |
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| Program participant made the journey out to the Tai-O stilt house village to study the original settlement patterns of Hong Kong (left) and Silan Yip and Adam Casey visit the 16th c. Portuguese ruins of Sao Paolo in Macau (right). | |
Special Events and Outings in China
Special events and tour sites for Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, and Shenzhen included both contemporary and historic sites and are led by local architectural experts and academics and included tours of the new CBD in Shenzhen; in-depth sketching outings to the ancient scholar gardens and temples of Suzhou including water taxis on the cities ancient canals; visiting the acclaimed Xin Tian Di development in Shanghai; ascending the skyscrapers of the new Shanghai Pudong special economic zone; visit to Tiananmen Square; tours of traditional hutong and lilong housing; tours of Beijing’s imperial palaces, temples, and gardens; climbing the Great Wall of China; and touring the private contemporary houses of the Commune by the Great Wall.
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| Touring the Cantilever House in Beijing by Antonio Ochoa (left), UF students descend the Great Wall of China (right). | |
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| UF student Catherine Anderson inspects modern bamboo construction at a house by Kengo Kuma in Beijing (left). Students toured the Forbidden City in central Beijing (right). | |
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| Touring the famous Suitcase House in Beijing by Architect Gary Chang (left); UF students ascend the Great Wall of China (right). |
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| UF students and faculty inspect new building under construction in Shenzhen by famous architect Arata Isozaki (left). |
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Introduction to the Studio Project
vernacular METROPOLIS 1
Podium-city [hong kong]: Intertwining Scalar Extremes in a 60-story Village
The work of the 2004 Hong Kong – China Program design studio began with an examination of Hong Kong extremes: the very small and the very large as manifest in the traditional little red street-shrine and the urban phenomenon of the podium - a big-box, multi-level housing base that incorporates every urban amenity imaginable. In the former we discover an art of the street, authentic in its spontaneity, moving in its utility, and powerful in its ubiquity. In the latter we see an unfinished project of urbanism and place making; monumental, overbearing, ambitious and unapologetic. By definition both are podia, plinths or pedestals, metaphorical bookends of a 60-story village.
As we explored the possibilities of such a scalar tension, we found ourselves interested in that which might reside between the very small and the very large, as its ultimately within this forgotten middle ground of the Asian mega-city that people make their place, conduct their lives.
The first set of drawings, models, and photographs of the studio attempt to invert, unfold, unravel, and loosen the hermetic black hole of the podium, and to consciously, and conscientiously, construct joints, pockets, and portals to rituals of street-life as defined through the chora of street-shrine. Some drawings attempt to deliver deliberate mis-readings of the podium and shrine, intertwining them to invest the secular one with the spirituality of the other. Others speculate on an alternate existence to the realm of podium form, dreaming an alternate podium of liquid, effervescent, or delirious qualities. While aiming to amplify the promise of the podium as a dynamic and functional response to changing lifestyles, the work questions the disparities between a life conducted indoors in one developer’s hyper-mall and a life conducted in the organic and free space of street and square.
The first stage of the studio work, conducted during May and June 2004 was exhibited at 1aSpace in Hong Kong and at the University of Florida Architecture Gallery. The final design research of the program (outline below) will be exhibited at the University of Florida in January 2005 and in Jakarta in May.
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| Drawings by Richie Gelles (above left), Sabah Azhar (lower left) and word matrix by Adam Casey and Catherine Anderson(right). | |
Commentaries from Participants
“After many coordination meetings, several screeching airplanes landings and a little red taxi whisking us a way we were off to a new day in a fresh city unknown to us all. Professor Sanders was waiting to greet us with her warm smile. Gleaming from ear to ear it was a gracious hug of reassurance. We were all on a journey of a lifetime. During the following several weeks I was exposed to the depths of Hong Kong and Chinese culture. Visiting ancient walled villages. Zipping through modern cities. Exploring charming fishing villages. Skipping over to Macao an island country just an hour jet boat ride away. Hopping over the border to Mainland China to find our home for a while in Shenzhen, Beijing, Suzhou, and Shanghai. Of course, as all traveling students, professors included, we made the trek up the Great Wall of China. We crossed boundaries and entered territories previously unknown to all my fellow travelers. Professor Sanders’ profound knowledge and love of our new home was the guiding spirit of the entire trip. I will forever be indebted to her for unlocking a door that I never knew existed – an open door to the never sleeping city of Hong Kong and the ancient Chinese culture.”
David Crabtree
“It was a semester that focused on many things that we do not get the opportunity to do at the University. It became a cultural exploration as well as an understanding for architecture in the professional field.”
Sabah Azhar
“As a pupil of Professor Sanders, I have participated in the Hong Kong/China Summer 2004 program. This program consisted of two parts: the informal immersion in a distant social context and the formal academic setting. Professors Sanders first-hand knowledge outside the classroom has always been exemplary in proper use of etiquette, understanding customs, culture within context, and the translation and evolution of these practices and ideas into a coherent architectural dialogue.”
Salvatore Gomes
“I have been fortunate enough to experience the Hong Kong study abroad program that Professor Sanders recently contributed to the University of Florida, School of Architecture. This trip that Professor Sanders led generated the most architecturally profound critical thinking for everyone involved. The experience scholastically has been by far the most beneficial to me and has opened many doors in my life that, without her, would have remained closed.”
Adam Casey
“The Hong Kong studio has been highly influential for those students who participated. Students from the program, including myself, felt the Hong Kong studio has been the most critical part of their education, forever shaping the way they now consider their understanding of architecture and the world.”
Silan Yip
“Through Professor Sanders’ vision and organization, a traveling design studio to Hong Kong, China was introduced in the summer of 2004 in which she led twenty-one undergraduate and graduate students on an intensive six-week tour. As a member of the initial group of students whom traveled to Hong Kong, I can only praise the experience and the professor that made it possible. For the duration of the program, Professor Sanders has encouraged exploration, discussion and understanding of the Chinese culture. She also demands innovative, meticulous and evocative work from her students. In response to her students’ projects, Professor Sanders’ has organized gallery shows in Hong Kong and the University of Florida, with further gallery shows taking place at the University of Texas and Jakarta, Indonesia.”
Shannon Shirah
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to the following individuals and institutions for their generous assistance.
Dr. Lee Ho Yin
The University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture
Shenzhen University Department of Architecture
Gong Wei Min, Chair
Tongji University Department of Architecture, Shanghai
Dr. Wang Fangji
Graduate Student Zhou Ming, Graduate Student Deng Whengun
Ms. Sonia Mak, MArch University of Florida 2006
Tsinghua University Department of Architecture, Beijing
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering
Professor Liu Shixing
Construction Industry Training Authority, Hong Kong
Eddie K.S. Yiu
Lee Wing Cheong
Urbanus, Beijing
Wang Hui, Principal
QiXin Architects and Engineers
QiXin, President
CSCEC-Sports Architecture Division
Selene Zhang, Structural Engineer Beijing Olympic Swimming Stadium
University of Florida Beijing Center
Dr. Sherman Bai, Director
Dr. Lina Li, Assistant Director
Urbanus, Shenzhen
Liu Xiaodu, Principal
Men Yan, Principal
Edge Design Institute, Ltd, Hong Kong
Gary Chang, Principal
HOK Ltd Hong Kong
Paul Collins, Senior Associate
ARK Ltd., Hong Kong
William Liu, Principal
YWCA International House, Hong Kong
Vivian Chow
Jaqueline Law
Executive Mandarin Limited
Winnie Ngai
All China Women’s Federation, Beijing Hao Yuan Hotel