In this lecture, Meng Yan, co-founding principal of URBANUS Architecture & Design will share URBANUS’s recent work in Shenzhen, spanning from architectural projects to urban design and research, with a particular emphasis on Urban Village Coexistence, the latest publication on urban villages. The book, edited by URBANUS and bilingually published in English and Chinese by Shanghai Culture Press in 2024, collects textual and visual essays of leading thinkers on Chinese urban villages with a focus on the case of Shenzhen.

This event is co-sponsored by the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities, and the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art.

Organized by An Tairan & Mo Sifei