Talking Architecture is a series of live-interviews hosted by the course Talking Architecture (VIS 2359), conducted by students and moderated by Instructor Diego Grass. These events are spin-offs of GSD-sponsored public lectures held during the semester. They intend to extend the conversations between these guests and the GSD community.
In this first session, we talked with Xu Tiantian (1975-), founding principal of DnA_Design and Architecture (http://www.designandarchitecture.net/), based in Beijing since 2004. Xu received her M.A. in Urban Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and her BArch from Tsinghua University. Before establishing DnA, she worked at several design firms in the United States and the Netherlands, including OMA —in which she was involved in the CCTV project. She has engaged extensively with rural revitalization processes in Songyang, Zhejiang province, which she featured at Aedes Architecture Forum and Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018.
This interview was conducted on February 19, 2021, and questions were performed by students Shane Ah-Siong, Selwyn Bachus, Jack Chen, Chris D’amico, Alaa Hamid, Noy Mizrachi, Tara Oluwafemi, Gabrielle Redding, Kenismael Santiago-Pagan, and Sheng Zhao.
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