The renowned scholar and cultural critic Professor Leo Ou-fan Lee will give a talk on "Garden in the City: Towards a Humanistic Architecture". Professor Leo Lee will explore the possibilities of reinventing a new aesthetic form of architecture in China under the super-modern "impact from the West", and if Hong Kong could rise to the challenge?

The talk will be followed by a roundtable discussion featuring a panel of distinguished architects and curators of the "2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture":

Ou Ning, Chief curator, Shenzhen
Marisa K. S. Yiu, Chief curator, Hong Kong
Pauline J. Yao, Curator, Shenzhen,
Eric H. Schuldenfrei, Curator, Hong Kong

Date:  December 11, 2009 (Fri)
Time:  5:30pm - 7:30pm
Venue:  Rayson Huang Theatre, The University of Hong Kong
Language: English

Free Admission

For online registration and further information please visit :
http://jmsc.hku.hk/leolee_reg

Co-organizers:
School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, HKU;
Project for Public Culture, the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, HKU;
2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture.

Sponsors:
MUSE magazine;
"Azalea(1972) Endowment Fund" &
HKU Culture and Humanities Fund"

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Velentina Ma, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, HKU at 22194012/ 91230252 email : velentinam@hku.hk