The renowned scholar and cultural critic Professor Leo Ou-fan Lee will give a talk on “Garden in the City: Towards a Humanistic Architecture”. Professor Leo will explore the possibilities of reinventing a new aesthetic form of architecture in China under the super-modern “impact from the West”, and if Hong Kong could rise to the challenge?

The talk will be followed by a roundtable discussion featuring a panel of distinguished architects and curators of the “2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture”:

• Ou Ning, Chief curator, Shenzhen
• Marisa K. S. Yiu, Chief curator, Hong Kong
• Pauline J. Yao, Curator, Shenzhen
• Eric H. Schuldenfrei, Curator, Hong Kong

• Date: December 11, 2009 (Fri)
• Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
• Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, The University of Hong Kong
• Language: English
• Free Admission
• Online Registration