Date 7.11.2024
Time HKT 12:00pm – 01:30pm
Location Zone F, LSK Architecture Building, CUHK
The practice Assemble is grounded in understanding building as an activity that can be truly constructive but is often wasteful and complicit in practices that exacerbate social issues and contribute to escalating climate and biodiversity crises. In our work, we focus on how contemporary construction, along with its industrial infrastructure and interconnected networks of materials and labor, can be adapted and improved now. This lecture will discuss how we can act pragmatically to improve building practices today, and how we are developing projects to address the most acute and systemic issues in the construction industry through specific and local forms of practice.
Amy Perkins is an architect living and working in Zurich, she is a founding member of Assemble and holds a guest professorship with co-founder James Binning at the EPFL in Lausanne. She is part of the group Annexe who have been selected to represent Switzerland at the Venice Biennale in 2025. Along with Jeremy Waterfield she is guest editor of the GTA Papers issue on The Crit, published in 2024 and has been on the editorial board of Cartha Magazine since 2019.
The lectures and seminars will be conducted in English and open to the public. No prior reservation is required.
Public Lectures:
19 Sep 2024
Peter W. Ferretto @CUHK/Condition Lab
07 Oct 2024
Florian Heinzelmann @NUS/SHAU Architect
07 Nov 2024
Amy Perkins @Assemble
