Tsinghua Design Lecture · Design Community

On 6 June 2017, Haobo Wei took part in the Tsinghua Design Lecture · Design Community conversation on “Personality, Locality and Modernism”. This page focuses on Wei and West-Line Studio’s work, alongside photographs of the event.

Standardisation and individuality may appear contradictory, yet both are indispensable to modern architecture. The former represents the spread of technology and rationality in modern society; the latter reveals how culture qualifies that uniformity. In architectural practice they need to be integrated rather than set against one another: how can a universal modern architectural system create buildings with a distinctive character and a sense of place?

Design Director of Guiyang Architectural Survey and Design Co., Ltd., and Principal Architect of West-Line Studio. The source presents Chetian Village Cultural Centre, the entrance to Chishui Bamboo Sea National Forest Park in Guizhou, and the Chishui Exhibition Centre at the China Danxia World Natural Heritage Site.

Date: 6 June 2017. Venue: the basement café, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. Organisers: Design Community magazine and the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University.

The original programme scheduled Haobo Wei’s presentation for 13:30–14:00.

Organised jointly by Design Community magazine and the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University, the series explores contemporary architectural thought and practice, providing a forum for architects to exchange work and design ideas.