Summer China Program
Celebrates 25th Anniversary in Historic Shanghai Slaughterhouse
Eight students from the
School of Architecture and Department of Landscape Architecture joined
Professor James Warfield in hosting the faculty of the College of
Architecture and the Urban Planning at Tongji University at a 25th
anniversary banquet celebrating CAUP’s longest affiliation with a
foreign university. The occasion was held at the newly renovated design
center "1933," which served for half a century as the primary beef and
pork slaughterhouse in Shanghai, and today continues as the upscale home
of the Ferrari Club of Shanghai, the Lamborghini showroom, and shops
including Rolex, Chanel, Pierre Cardone, and Prada. Special invited
guests included prominent architectural theorist and educator Professor
Dr. Zheng Shiling, lead theme architect of Shanghai's world fair EXPO
2010, and Professor Wu Jiang, Warfield’s teaching assistant in 1988 who
has gone on to serve as Vice Mayor of Shanghai and is now Vice President
of Tongji University.
The banquet focused upon
the 1987-2012 collaboration of Tongji University and the UIUC School of
Architecture, a program which CAUP honored in its recent publication International Design Programs at Tongji University by placing the
words of Warfield and the freehand sketches of the Illinois students as
the opening chapter, chapters following the University of Illinois
belonging to Princeton University, the Ecole National Superieur
d’architecture Paris-Bellevill, the University of California at
Berkeley, Yale, Kyushu University, Georgia Tech, MIT, Harvard, Penn and
40 other international universities.
The 1933 banquet was the
social conclusion of the six-week China program which featured two weeks
of travel in Beijing and Shanxi Province and four weeks of classes in
Shanghai at CAUP. During the first weeks, students traveled to numerous
UNESCO World Heritage sites including the Great Wall at Mutianyu, the
Temple of Heaven and the Forbidden City in Beijing, and the Yungang
Grottos, the Hanging Temple, the Buddhist temples of Wutai Shan, and the
walled city of Pingyao in Shanxi Province. Subsequently, at Tongji
University, students attended four weeks of lectures by prominent
Shanghai architects and educators, early-morning tai chi classes,
Chinese language classes, and calligraphy and watercolor studios.
In the Yangtze River Delta, students traveled to the water towns
of Zhouzhuang and Tongli and the garden city Suzhou, all World Heritage
sites, as well.
Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning students
interested in participating in future China programs should contact
Professor James Warfield for information.
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