【Lecture 28.10.2025】 Architectural Design as Modern Organization: Global Perspectives
Release time:2025-10-27

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Architectural Design as Modern Organization:

 Global Perspectives



TIME

Tuesday, Oct.28, 8:30-18:00


Venue

Bell Hall Auditorium, CAUP Building B, Tongji University


TENCENT Link

Link:https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/S0jjGwuWvMda

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Password: 200360

8:30-9:00 

Opening Session

Host:HUA Xiahong


8:30 AM Welcome and Introduction

8:40 AM Welcoming Speech  

Prof. ZHENG Shiling  Tongji University

8:55 AM Group Photo 


9:00-12:00

Section 1 

Host:HUA Xiahong


Historical and Theoretical Position: Organizing a System for Modern and Contemporary Architectural Profession

9: 00 

Architecture as Microcosm of Nation-State Governance

Peggy Deamer , Yale University

9: 20

 Community Design as Alternative Collective Practice

Alan Plattus , Yale University ONLINE

9: 40 

Architects, Planning, and Politics in the Brazilian Urban Miracle (1971-1981) 

Ana Paula Koury  Mackenzie, Presbyterian University ONLINE

10: 00 Q&A 

10: 20

An Overview of the Types and Organization of Design Institutes in the Early P.R.C 

LIU Yishi, Qsinghua University   ONLINE 

10: 40 

Changing the Face of Contemporary Cities: The Transnational Operations of Architectural Design Firms and Technology Providers 

Davide Ponzini, Paolo Scrivano, Polytechnic University of Milan

11: 00  

The Union of International Architects 

Rui Leão , General Secretary , UIA

11: 20 Q&A

11: 40 Closing of Section 1 

13:00-18:00

Case Studies: Architectural Design Through Technological and Intellectual Organization 

Section 2.1

Host:LIU Kan


Organization as Efficient Production: 

How Architectural Design institute/ Big Design Company works

13: 00 

From Plan to Market: the Production Transition of Large State-owned Design Institutes 

HUA Xiahong, BI Jingyuan , Tongji University

13: 15 

Architecture’s Imperial Complex: The Design of American Architecture Corporations 

Aaron Cayer California , State Polytechnic University  ONLINE

13: 30 

Complexity and Contradiction in Dual Licences System: between Architect Registration and Organization Qualification

ZHANG Ziyue, LI Xiangning, Tongji University

13: 45 Discussion 

14: 05

 Is there life after the author’s death?

Lorenzo Ciccarelli, University of Florence

14: 20 

A Knowledge-Practice-Institution Mechanism: Reinterpreting Chinese Traditional Architecture by the Southeast University Architectural Design Institute 

ZHANG Qi, LI Haiqing , South-East University

14: 35 Discussion  

14: 55 Tea break  

Section 2.2

Host:Peggy Deamer


Organization as Social Collaboration: How architects collaborate with other entities

15: 30 

HouseEurope! A Question of Values 

Olaf Graewert , Co-initiator of HouseEurope  ONLINE

15: 45 

Design Revolution and the Struggle for Equal Collaboration in Architectural Process 

LIU Ye , Qsinghua University 

16: 00 

State Owned: A Reconsideration of the Development Course of State-Run Architectural Design Organizations 

WANG Yuanshun, North-West China Architectural Design Institute

16: 15 Discussion

 Section 2.3

Host:Davide Ponzini


Transnational Practice through Design Organization: How globalization influence architectural design

16: 35 

 (A) Building Works on Time: Architecture, Transnational Capital, and the Production of Velocity in 1980s Shanghai 

WEN Zengxin, ZHANG Xiaochun, Tongji University

16: 50 

Institutionalizing “Global Architecture” American

Architecture Agencies and the Making of Contemporary Shanghai (1979-2020) 

LIU Kan, Tongji University

17: 05 Building Airport as an Agency for Foreign Investment and Technological Import, Taking Shanghai as an Example 

WU Jiao, Chang’an University

17: 20 Discussion  

17: 40 Closing of Section 2