We would like to warmly invite you to join our 3. general meeting! Due to the current circumstance we decided to organise the meeting on zoom.

Time: Tuesday 15.12.2020, 18:00,
Zoom ID: 996 2991 4629
Passcode: 223410

Please note, the general meeting is only open to members and the registration is not required.
We look forward to seeing you soon!

Seminar on History and Theory of Architecture in 2020

Topic: “Palladio: From His Time to His Influences”

Time: Friday November 20th and Saturday November 21st. Please note the time zone is Beijing (GMT+8)

Host: 

Prof. Dr. Werner Oechslin, Head of Werner Oechslin Library, Former Director of gta, ETH Zürich

Prof. Lu Yongyi, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

You can join the seminar via Zoom or Tecent Meeting: 

Zoom link: zoom 563 449 9171

Tecent Meeting: 656 284 1258, Code: 005297

Poster Design Copyright: Sonja Zagermann © scaa.ch 2020

FREITAG Factory Tour

How to transform used truck tarps into highly functional and unique bags? How to connect the “recycling” concept from product to flagship store? How the FREITAG people think and act in cycles?

FREITAG has been at home in the Nœrd industrial complex in Zurich-Oerlikon since 2011. This is where the truck tarps we collect are taken apart, washed and cut to size. In February we offer the opportunity to visit the famous Freitag Factory with us. There will be a guided tour through the expansive facility in Zurich North.

Date and Time:
Friday 28.02.2020, 16:00h

Venue:
Freitag lab, Binzmühlestrasse 170b, 8050 Zurich.

Language:
English/German

Guide:
Immanuel Streuli (Hausarchitekt at Freitag)

Registration:
info@scaa.ch
Due to limited capacity, early registration is strongly recommended to ensure your participation.

Cost:
Free for SCAA Members, CHF 20 for non-members, CHF 10 for students

Followed by an apéritif in Noerdkantine

Architektur in der goldenen Mitte
– Moderne Transformation Chinesischer Tradition in der Architektur

Im alten China existierte Architektur nicht als eigenständige Disziplin. Trotzdem entstanden während der 2000 jährigen Geschichte meisterhafte Bauwerke, wie die verbotene Stadt, die buddhistischen Pagoden und die chinesischen Gärten. Heute steckt China mitten in einer dramatischen Transformation welche Retortenstädte, Bauten wie das Vogelnest in Beijing und die Wolkenkratzer in Shanghai hervorbrachte. Wie können wir die heutige Architektur in China verstehen? Gibt es überhaupt einen roten Faden, der sich von den Anfängen Chinas in die heutige Zeit zieht? Wenn wir sehen, wie die heutige Architektur auf gesellschaftliche, ökologische und ökonomische Aspekte in Megacities reagiert, stellt sich die Frage, ob nebst dem Blick in die Zukunft, nicht auch wieder ein Lernen von der Vergangenheit hilfreich wäre.

Mulan Sun

geboren und aufgewachsen in Beijing und Tianjin in China, seit 2005 wohnhaft in der Schweiz. Mulan Sun
hat an der ETH Zürich mit einem Master of Science in Architektur abgeschlossen. Sie ist Gründerin und Präsidentin
der Swiss-Chinese Chamber of Architects and Artists (SCAA). Von 2018 bis 2019 ist Frau Sun Gastprofessorin an
der Universität Tianjin. Sie hat sowohl an der ETH Zürich als auch an der Tianjin Universität in China mit dem Schwerpunkt “Moderne Transformation der Chinesischen Tradition in der Architektur” unterrichtet.

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Referentin: Mulan Sun, MSc Arch ETH, Inhaberin SML Architektur, Präsident SCAA

Gäste der Podiumsdiskussion:
Dr. Christian Renfer, Ehemaliger Denkmalpfleger des Kantons Zürich
Dr. Jessica Imbach, Dozentin Asien-Orient-Institut, Universität Zürich

Moderation: Tian Chiang, MSc Arch ETH, Associate MACH Architektur, SCAA Vorstand

Zeit: Friday, 20.12.2019, 18:30
Ort: Volkeshaus (Grüner Saal) Stauffacherstrasse 60, 8004 Zürich
Sprache: Deutsch
Eintritt: SCAA Mitglieder gratis, Nichtmitglieder CHF 20
RSVP: info@scaa.ch (erforderlich)

Anschliessend Apéro

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Poster Design Copyright: Sonja Zagermann © scaa.ch 2019
www.sonja-zagermann.ch

Image Copyright:
Michael Wolf photographs architecture of density #39, 2014, 3’178 x 266 cm
Michael Kenna photographs Great Wall, 2007, 20.3 × 20.3 cm

Max Bill and Bauhaus 100
马克斯·比尔 包豪斯一百年
Private guide in Haus Bill by Dr. Angela Thomas Schmid

Time: Friday, 1.11.2019, 18:30

Place: Haus Bill, Rebhusstrasse 50, 8126 Zumikon

Language: English

Cost: SCAA Members free, non-members CHF 20, Students CHF 10

RSVP: info@scaa.ch (Mrs. Ling Chen)
Due to limited capacity, early registration is strongly recommended to ensure your participation

Followed by an Apéritif in Haus Bill

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Portrait of Max Bill: Marcel Vogt – ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv
Picture of Haus Bill: Georg Aerni, Fotograf, Zurich
Poster Design by Sonja Zagermann © SCAA.ch 2019
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Haus Bill
To coincide with the Centenary – 100 years of Bauhaus, SCAA is proud to organise a private guided tour by Dr Angela Thomas Schmid in Haus Bill, designed by Max Bill. The residential home and artist’s studio was built in 1967. Today, it is home not only to Angela Thomas Schmid but also the Max Bill Georges Vantongerloo Foundation. The classic Bill structure has been preserved in its original condition and geothermal energy and solar electricity systems have recently been installed.

Max Bill
Max Bill was a great Swiss polymath: an artist, architect, industrial designer, graphic designer, and teacher. He attended the Bauhaus where he was taught by Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer. Bill remained closely associated with the Bauhaus school and was a key figure in developing and propagating its principles, especially through his professorship at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich and as a founder of the Ulm School of Design. Through his pursuit of a new visual language that could be understood by the senses alone, Bill defined the conventions of Swiss design for decades to come. His influence spread even as far as South America, where he was a catalyst for the Concrete Art movement.

Angela Thomas Schmid
Art historian, Exhibition Curator, Author, president of the Max Bill Georges Vantongerloo Foundation, second and last wife of Max Bill.

SCAA would like to extend its heartfelt gratitude to all of you for the participations in SCAA membership and your support in the realization of high-quality events and projects from the founding year of SCAA in 2017 until now.

With great pleasure SCAA would like to invite you to join its 2. Generalversammlung / General Assembly.

Registration is kindly required via info@scaa.ch (Mrs. Ling CHEN)

Free entry, followed by an Apero

Modern architecture between crafts, industrialization and artistic individuality:
the case of the Bauhaus and its forerunner the Werkbund

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Time: Thursday, 8. August 2019, 13:30 – 16:00
Place: Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin, Luegetenstrasse 11, 8840 Einsiedeln
Language: English
Cost: SCAA Members free, non-members CHF 20.-, Students CHF 10.-
RSVP: info@scaa.ch (Mrs. Ling Chen)

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Program: 

13:30 – 15:00 Workshop Reviews and Presentations

Lead by Prof. Werner Oechslin

❊ Classic and History

Prof. FENG Jiang (South China University of Technology)
The Houses with Balcony Access in Dessau

Prof. Yao Donghui (Zhejiang University of Technology)
‘Das Englische Haus’:The book shaping German modern architectural kulturbild

❊ Teaching Models

Dr. Jiang Jiawei (Tongji University)
From Pictorial Illusion to Three Dimensions: A Study of Josef Albers’ mural Paintings in collaboration with Architect King-Lui u

Prof. Qian Feng (Tongji University)
Johannes Itten and his Teaching at Bauhaus

Dr. Wang Yulin (Tongji University)
The Visualized Bauhaus: A Case Study on László Moholy-Nagy’s Vorkurs

❊ General Topics

Dr. Lu Tan (Tongji University)
Disconnected Space: Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of History in the “Ruins of the Bourgeoisie”.

Prof. Qing Feng (Tsinghua University)
Functionalism and Teleology

❊ Pre-modernism

Prof. Lu Yongyi (Tongji University)
Back to the Original: from primitive hut to learning by doing

❊ Italian and Chicago

Prof. XU Haohao (South China University of Technology)
The Modernism in Italy between Critical Rationalism and Interpretivism

Prof. Yang Jing (Tianjin University)
Chicago Tribune Competition and Skyscraper in Glass and Iron: the research of the unbuilt skyscraper project of Bauhaus

15:00 Keynote lecture by Prof. Laurent Stalder, director of the gta Institute, ETH Zurich

16:00 Apéro

PREFABRICATION WITH INTEGRATION
_____ Prefabrication architecture in china

Speacker:
Prof. Jingxiang Zhu, The Chinese University of Hongkong
Patrick Schwalm, Renggli AG
Time: Friday, 19.07.2019, 17:30
Place: ITA – Institut für Technologie in der Architektur, ETH Hönggerberg
Language: English
Cost: SCAA Member free, non-member CHF 20, Student free
RSVP: info@scaa.ch (Mrs. Ling Chen)

Followed by an aperitif

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For the upcoming event, we are thrilled to welcome Prof. Jingxiang Zhu 朱竞翔 to give a speech on the subjects of prefabrication and sustainable design.

Jingxiang Zhu is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture Hong Kong (CUHK). His research focuses on new spatial structures, lightweight building systems and sustainable building technologies. Prof. Zhu has completed a multitude of built projects in Mainland China and Kenya, and has won the China Innovator of the Year Award in Architecture from The Wall Street Journal in 2012, First Prize of Local Academia in the Hong Kong Construction Industry Council Innovation Award 2015, Technique Exploration Award and Youth Explorer Finalist Award in the 4th China Architecture Media Awards 2016. He also designed the Dou Pavilion for China’s national pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale 2016.

Paysages Partagés
景 观 共 享
( A Project of ICI & AILLEURS Scholarship in Canton Berne)

Art Talk & Exhibition

Time: June 22 2019, 15:00 – 17:00
Place: Haute Route 45a, 2502 Bienne (Atelier Luo Mingjun)

Presented by
Luo Mingjun 罗明君 – Cliché 成见
Li Wei 黎薇 – Present 礼物
Marina Porobic – Identity 身份

Moderated by
Sun Mulan 孙慕蘭

Followed by Apéro riche

Language: English, Chinese
RSVP: info@scaa.ch (Mrs. Chen Ling)
SCAA Members free, Nonmembers CHF20, Students CHF10

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Landscape is actually a kind of visual effect, which is usually interpreted as a scene of a region. With the continuous expansion of human activities and the deepening of commercialisation, the landscape of human society has become intuitive or more visible to the naked eye. For example, overwhelming commercial propaganda and widespread dissemination of videos and images, landscapes are becoming more and more alienated and humans have completely lost their resistance to widespread images or expanded things. To be honest, the landscape is kind of “Deceit”. It deliberately tries to figure out people’s minds, gain people’s approval. The people who are willing to stay on the surface and do not intend to explore the essence are obviously more than before. Whether it is a “Concentrated Spectacle”, a “Diffuse Spectacle”, or an Integrated Spectacle, it is a means of domination in society. so, what or how is the new relationship between landscape and people today?

景观，其实就是某种视觉效果，通常被解释为一个地区的景象，随着人类活动的不断扩张，并且随着商业化的深入，人类社会的景观化也变得越来越直观，也就是越来越肉眼可见。比如铺天盖地的商业宣传，影像和图像形式的广泛传播，景观越来越趋于异化，人类对某种广泛扩张的来势汹汹的图像或者事物完全失去了抵抗力。实话说，景观完全是个幌子，它处心积虑地揣摩着人们的心思，获得人们的认同，而甘于停留于表象而无意探究本质的人在今天显然要比以往都要多。无论是集中的景观（Concentrated Spectacle）、弥散的景观（Diffuse Spectacle），还是综合的景观（Integrated Spectacle），都可谓社会中的统治手段。那么，如今景观和人的新关系到底如何？

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Luo Mingjun, lives in Switzerland since 31 years. She is an artist who commutes between two different cultures. Previously, she obtained a complete academic education in Hunan province in China. In the early 1980s, when 85 New Wave has risen in China, young artists adopted the method of western contemporary art and applied “readymade products” to their works. Take a pioneering attitude, subvert or criticise the concepts of obsolete art. When she moved to Switzerland in 1987, during living and working in a foreign country, the inner conflict and anxiety of self-identity in the two different cultures became big subjects that the artist had to think about. Facing the transformation of ideology and cultural identity caused by two opposing cultural environments, she created an intermediate zone for her own dialogue and communication, a “Third Space”, or a “No Man’s Land” and got attention. Luo Mingjun will present the process and experience of her creation through the interpretation of some of her works in the lecture.

Li Wei, born in 1981 in Beijing, is a visual artist who currently lives and works in Beijing, China. He received his BA from the Sculpture department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2007. Lí Wei adopts a hyperrealistic style in his sculptures, focusing on conveying the emotions of the figures. The objective and clinical themes in Lí’s works reveal his doubts in human nature, and of humanity’s cruelty and ignorance. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions including Nobody Cares, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2015); Peace, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan (2014); Hero, Today Art Museum, Beijing (2011). Currently he joins the exhibition “Mirrors – The Reflected Self” with the artwork “Hi” in Museum Rietberg in Zurich.

Marina Porobic, born in 1978 in Zagreb, Croatia, studied Art History and English Literature at the University of Lausanne. After an internship in the Louvre Museum in Paris, she was scientifique assistant to the director in the Centre Pasquart in Biel. Before becoming an independent curator for the Abbey Church in Bellelay in 2012, she worked for the Federal Office of Culture in Bern. Marina Porobic is auteur and editor of several artists books and articles.

Download the pdf here: http://scaa.ch/doc/paysages.pdf

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Other opening Hours in Atelier Luo Mingjun during the Project
Paysages Partagés :
June 20/21/26/27/28 2019, from14:00 to18:00
Finnissage: June 29, 11:00 – 13:00
Admission free

Recommend Program: Robert Walser – Sculpture
A “Presence and Production” Project in public Space
by Thomas Hirschhorn
June 15 – September 8, 2019, Place de la Gare, Biel/Bienne
www.robertwalser-sculpture.com
Admission free

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Poster Design by Wang Tao Copyright © SCAA.ch 2019, Pictures: Maggia Delta by Ferdinand Hodler/Come fly with me by Luo Mingjun/Present by Li Wei

Gravitational Field 
— Structure and Urban Regeneration

Presenation:

URBAN LIVING STORIES
— SCAA special event on international women’s day

Panel Discussion with:

“Architecture of Infinity” The magic of sacred spaces
— SCAA Film evening with director Christoph schaub

Date: Thursday, 28.02.2019
Place: Houdini Kino/Bar, Badenerstrasse 173, 8004 Zürich
Host: Swiss-Chinese Chamber of Architects and Artists (SCAA)
Language: Film in German with english subtitles
Cost: Free for SCAA and SCAAs members, CHF 20 for non members, CHF 10 for students.
Registration: info@scaa.ch (Mrs. Ling Chen) Due to limited seating capacity, early registration is strongly recommended to ensure your participation

Made by Robots – Visiting the Arch_Tec_Lab and the Robotic Fabrication Lab at ETH Zürich

Guide: Hannes Mayer, senior Researcher and member of the board of Gramazio Kohler Research. He is the director of education and oversees all research, publication and exhibition projects at the chair.

NCCR: http://www.dfab.ch

Gramazio Kohler Research: http://gramaziokohler.arch.ethz.ch/

Private guided tour for SCAA through the exhibition
«Walter Bosshard / Robert Capa – The race for China»
in dialogue and talk with curator Madleine Deplazes and author Zhang Wei

Time: Sunday 16.12.2018, 14:00
Place: Fotomuseum, Grüzenstrasse 45, 8400 Winterthur
Guide: Madleina Deplazes (Museum curator) und Zhang Wei (Author <Eine mango für Mao>)
Language: German (English guided tour at 15:00 upon request)
Cost*: Free for SCAA members gratis. CHF 20 for non members. CHF 10 for students (*museum admission fee is not including)
RSVP: info@scaa.ch, til 12.December 2018

(Followed by an aperitif in museum bistro George)

More about the exhibition: https://www.fotostiftung.ch/ausstellungen/bosshard-capa/
Please find enclosed the poster of the coming event.

We look forward to welcoming you soon on Sunday 16.12 in Fotomuseum and celebrating together the successful year 2018! Until then, all the best!

Let it grow 顺其自然
Architect Wang Yan (Shanghai)
Dialogue with Hans-Christian Rufer (Zurich)
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Time: Friday, 23.11.2018, 19:00
Place: Sihlquai 131, 8005 Zurich
Language: English
Registration: info@scaa.ch
Co-Host: ETH Alumni Chapter Beijing
Cost: Free for SCAA and SCAAs member, 20 CHF for nonmember
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WANG Yan
Born in 1978, Shanghai.

In 2001, he graduated as bachelor architect from Tongji University. In 2004, he received Diplom Architect at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. At present, he works in Shanghai as partner and principle architect of GOA architects. From 2014 on, he teaches as associate professor in Tongji University CAUP.

His architecture works, SPSI Art Museum, Dingli Art Museum, Huaxin Reception Center, etc. have widely received honor, and published in domestic and foreign media, such as<Detail> <Archdaily> <Time Architecture> <Architectural Journal> etc.

Hans-Christian RUFER
Born in Hamburg in 1981 and grew up in Basel.

He studied architecture in Zurich and Tokio and has a Masters degree in Architecture from ETH Zurich. He is an independent architect and researcher based in Zurich. His work, research and teaching focuses on transdisciplinary neighbourhood development, cooperative housing and the adaptive reuse of vacant spaces.

Currently he works in various collaborations on developing people centered processes for cooperative living models and transdisciplinary design research on creating access to affordable housing in spain.

At ETH Zürich he has taught and researched with Dirk Hebel, Urban-Think Tank and Atelier Bow Wow. His independent work as well as his research and teaching work at ETH has been published in Archithese, Ground Up Magazin, Casabella, FCL Magazine, Arte, Architettura ecosostenibile, Altstadt Kurier, La Voz de Galicia as well as a series of books on the Dirk E. Hebel Design Studios at ETH.

Download the poster:

http://scaa.ch/doc/letitgrow.pdf