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people's architecture wishes you a successful Chinese New Year! May the year of the Golden Pig bring prosperity, good ideas and harmony to everybody! In this newsletter we will give you an overview of ongoing people's architecture activities, publications, people's architecture collaborations, and other select issues on contemporary happenings in China. For further information please contact us.

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SPRING FESTIVAL
FEBRUARY 18, 2007

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3X3#8 BUILDING BEIJING
A PERSPECTIVE ON CHINA | MONTHLY LECTURE SERIES

On March 19, 2007, YUNG HO CHANG will lecture on BEIJING as part of our 3X3 lecture series at the Center for Architecture, New York. YUNG HO CHANG is the principal architect of Atelier Feichang Jianzhu [FCJZ], professor of architecture and head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] in Boston, USA, and professor of the Peking University Graduate Center of Architecture. More news to follow soon. To view our past 3x3 lectures feel free to visit our archive.

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people's architecture is working in close collaboration with beiLAB on setting up the Global Classroom lecture series in Beijing. The program will create a forum that encourages similar and conflicting viewpoints and perspectives of artistic, architectural, academic, scientific and corporate communities. These discussions will cover a variety of topics related to China's urban and social dynamics. beiLAB recently launched a call for their residency programs in Beijing, more info here>>

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URBAN CHINA's issue 13 was entirely devoted to the Pearl River Delta. Please find selected articles on the Urban China website. Further, people's architecture's Bert de Muynck published an article about his fictitious journey through the PRD in 1955: Is China Pre-P[a]R[e]D? [only available in Chinese].

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ART IN AMERICA
NAMOC | BEIJING, CHINA

First survey exhibition of American art ever presented in the People's Republic of China.
Art in America: Three Hundred Years of Innovation features approximately 130 important works of American art spanning the Colonial period to the present age, focusing on painting selected from major U.S. and European collections, including the Terra Foundation and Guggenheim Foundation. The exhibition premieres in Beijing at the National Art Museum of China, from February 10 through April 5, 2007, and travels to Shanghai where it will be jointly presented by the Shanghai Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, from May 1 to June 30, 2007. Guggenheim Press Release >>

PEARL RIVER DELTA CITY
CAC | VILNIUS, LITHUANIA

PEARL RIVER CITY [Contemporary Art from South China] presents many of the artistic facets that can be found in the Pearl River Delta. The participating artists are part of an organizational network that consists of: the 10 year old Para/Site Art Space from Hong Kong, Vitamin Creative Space from Guangzhou, the media collective Videotage from Hong Kong and Alternative Archive, from Guangzhou. It also features several artists two of which are: Jiang Zhi from Shenzhen and artists/architects Gutierrez+Portefaix, based in Hong Kong. More info >>

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HK LAB 3
MAP OFFICE | DEADLINE FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Hong Kong based MAP OFFICE is calling out for proposals for HK LAB 3. The publication will observe Hong Kong from China, reading future in the past and reinvestigate historical moments/spaces to construct an experience in which some mythological invention explore the way we live, speak, exchange and represent. More details on HK LAB 3>>


500m3 DESIGN COMPETITION
DCF| REGISTRATION DEADLINE PH1  MARCH 30, 2007

Beijing based Dynamic City Foundation [DCF] is calling out for architectural ideas for their 500 m3 Design Competition. The competition is part of the development of Gao Bei Dian Art District, renovation of the Phase 1 or 'old factory area', on Beijing's east Fifth Ring Road. More info on the competition>>

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SUSTAINABILITY IS HOT!

Out of a selection of growing websites dedicated to sustainable development in China we would like to highlight the following websites and discussions: China Dialogue [the world's first fully bilingual website devoted to the environment], the Venice Architecture Biennial 2006 Golden Lion award winning Co-Evolution project by the Danish Architecture Center, a video interview with Peter Head, director of sustainability of Arup and the  Sustainable Urban Housing in China project conducted by MIT Building Technology Group [Department of Architecture].

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SPECIAL THANKS

We would like to specially thank MAP OFFICE [Hong Kong] and the GUANGDONG MUSEUM OF ART for support to our work by donating their publications to people's architecture Beijing office annex open research library. If you also would like to donate your publications, please email us.

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