MANTOVARCHITETTURA 2021 – Vector Architects – DnA Design and Architecture

Vector

Founder/Design Principal of Vector Architects Foreign Member of French Academy of Architecture

Plym Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dong Gong founded Vector Architects in 2008. He was elected as the Foreign Member of French Academy of Architecture in 2019 and in the same year, was appointed as the Plym Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been teaching Design Studios at Tsinghua University since 2014.

DnA

Xu Tiantian is the founding principal of DnA _Design and Architecture. She has received numerous awards such as the WA China Architecture Award in 2006 and 2008, the Architectural League New York’s Young Architects Award in 2008, the Design Vanguard Award in 2009 by Architecture Record and the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architect in 2019.

She has built a number of projects, such as Songzhuang Art Center and Ordos Art Museum. In the past years she has been engaged extensively in the rural revitalising process in Songyang and Zhejiang Province. Her groundbreaking “architectural acupuncture” is a holistic approach to the social and economic revitalization of rural China and has been selected by UN Habitat as the case study of Inspiring Practice on Urban-Rural Linkages.

Xu Tiantian received her masters in architecture and urban design from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and her baccalaureate in architecture from Tsinghua University in Beijing.

For MANTOVARCHITETTURA she presents a lecture about Dushan Leisure Center.

Introduced by Matteo Moscatelli, professor of Architectural Design at Politecnico di Milano – Polo di Mantova.

The event will be published on the Mantova Campus Youtube channel.