History Synthetic

The Theme: History Synthetic

Location: CBPM Room C119

The Speaker: Jae Hyun Lim

Time: Friday of 19^th April 18:30

On April 19^th, we had honor of inviting Pro. Jae Hyun Lim from Hongkong University to give us a lecture. He introduced that he is a Korean and he grew up in Japan. In Hongkong, Japanese architects are popular. He showed that there are 7 Japanese winners for Practical Prize which is a high-level prize. He went on his lecture from two people’s perspective. One is Kenzo Tange (1913-2005), the other is Arata Isozaki (1931-now). He followed three key subjects: War, Education and Architecture. We learned that how the World WarⅡ influenced their design style and how did war and education produce architecture. Not like Tange, Isozake did not know why Japanese was crushed at that time because he was just 10 years old. Then Le Corbusier ‘s theory influenced him so much. He like lift things up, such as cities not interfere with ground and robots capable to elevate itself up. Both of them experienced the same events, but from different perspective. Pro. Jae Hyun Lim ended his presentation by a word “History Synthetic is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflection.”

Image| Song Jingyi

Writer| Guo Yupeng Song Jingyi