1. ARCHITECTURE’S CHALLENGES THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS
Qiaolun HUANG

2. FRENCH ARCHITECTURAL/CULTUREAL ICON IN CHINA
FRENCH FOOD IN CHINA

3. ARCHITECT AS ONE OF THE “WORST/MOST USELESS” PROFESSIONS.

4. NO DEMANDS?
FACEBOOK AS A OUTCOME OF DEMANDS?

5. OSCORP TOWER IN SPIDERMAN VS AL HAMRA TOWER IN REALITY
PART I

6. Sci-fi architecture in movies: a sideline or a profound indication to Architecture
"To me, it (Sci-Fi filmmaking) seemed an amazing
opportunity to conceive an idea, build it, experience it,
and be able to share it with people in a short period
of time.” --- Joseph Kosinski

7. Long construction period and the turbulent economic and political environment

8. Culture-specific VS Non culture-specific
Local VS Global
The success of Zaha Hadid

9. Fixed location VS Travelling through time and space

10. Fetish for digital rendering/architectural animation

11. Fetish for iconographic diagrams
“Old-fashion” diagrams from Peter EsienmenBjarke Ingels

12. Concept and story as disseminatable mediums

13. Popularity of image-based architecture websites

14. PART II
Revolutionary changes around us

15. Mark Zuckerberg + Frank Gehry = ??

16. +
Space that generates revolution does NOT mean
revolutionary space
In the information age, the space you need for revolutionary changes:
Architecture become more and more irrelevant to the social revolutionary changes.

17. From church, palace to expo, train station, bank, factories etc.
Architectural revolutions after the First and Second Industry Revolution

18. Mutual benefits
Architectural revolutions after the information revolution??
Parametricism
?

19. Architecture fails to benefit from the raising of grassroot and participatory culture

20. "People can inhabit anything. And they
can be miserable in anything and ecstatic
in anything. More and more I think that
architecture has nothing to do with it. Of
course, that's both liberating and
alarming. "
“ The culture of the 21st
century will be the
culture of dissemination and dispersal."
Ending quotes
Rem Koolhaas