ARCHITopia 2 - Cross-cultural meeting between Shanghai and Brussels

Shanghai already hosted in 2007, now it is Brussels’ turn to receive a vast audience and inform on Chinese architecture and urbanism developments. An exhibition as well as a four-day conference starting April 8th 2008 will mainly focus and debate on the design work of selected architectural firms from China. Exhibition “Shanghai-Brussels: ARCHITopia 2" 10 April – 10 June 2008 Lectures debates of the exhibited architects: 8 April 2008 – 7 pm “Chinese-ness of contemporary Chinese architecture” 9 April 2008 – 2 pm Lecture debate UCL ARCHITOPIA: Architecture, Utopia and Urbanism 9 April 2008 – 6 pm “Context of creation of young Chinese and Belgian architects” 10 April 2008 – 6:30 pm “ARCHITopia – Architectural Creation in China under Globalization” 12 April 2008 – 4 pm “Boudoir talk on architecture” http://www.architopia.org/