On the night of September 24th, following a lecture at Tsinghua University, Toyo Ito joined a round-table dinner talk with young Chinese architects at the MAD office. The dinner topic was on Asian Architecture Practice. The other five dinner guests were: Ma Yansong, Xu Weiguo from Tsinghua, Zhang Ke from Standard Architects, Liang Jingyu from Approach Architects and Fang Zhenning, architecture critic and event moderator for the evening.
The dinner conversation was both casual and passionate, encouraging all six participants to speak freely about their observations and opinions on architecture, as well as their personal experience within the discipline. Invited guests and architecture students were treated to a unique, architectural and cultural discussion.
This is the third dinner talk organized by MAD. The ROUND TABLE TALK is a series of cultural discussions around dinner tables in worldwide cities. The idea came from MAD DINNER, MAD's first book published by ACTAR in 2008. In the book, people from all tiers of society were gathered together at an imaginary table, the central format of the book, and invited to share their experiences, opinions and observations.
The video of the complete dinner talk will soon be posted online. read more
