Date: 13 September 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:30pm to 6:30pm 
Venue: G7603, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (Lift no. 2) 
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Uwe Fleckner
Professor of Art History at Hamburg University, Germany
Director of the Warburg Haus, Hamburg
Director of the Advanced School of Art and Humanities, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
Discussant: Prof. CHIU Rebecca L.H.
Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Architecture and Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong
The Bartlett School of Planning of University College London
Language: English

Related news: Click here

Abstract
The Ningbo Museum, designed by the Chinese architect Wang Shu and opened in 2008, is a museum of regional artistic and cultural history round the eponymous city in China’s Zhejiang Province, some two hundred kilometres south of Shanghai. It presents itself both as a “citizens’ museum” (百姓博物馆) with a broad-based educational programme, and as a centre for cultural-history research; and the design of its architectural shell has also been determined by historical considerations. In dialogue with the literati painting tradition of landscapes the museum architecture displays a direct correlation with nature and comments on urban destruction in contemporary China. The lecture will analyse Wang Shu’s use of demolition material from destroyed buildings in regional villages in order to erect his museum architecture and will put it into the intellectual frame of the concept of “spolia” in order to discover its historical significance.

Details and Registration
Limited seats available on a first-come first served basis. Please complete the online registration form on or before 9 September 2023. Successful registrants will receive a confirmation email not later than 11 September 2023.

All are welcome!

Inquiry：
Department of Chinese and History
Tel.：3442 2054
Email：cah@cityu.edu.hk