NCKU launches integrated design course to benefit architect students
Tainan, Taiwan, Feb. 27, 2013
Combining academic excellence with industry momentum has been one of the missions for the faculty in National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan. A special topics course covering the designs in architecture projects is launched recently by NCKU Department of Architecture, helping the architecture majors to get the whole picture of a building project.
This is the first attempt for Taiwan’s architect departments to launch an intensive course to bring in the expertise from the academic and the industry in the field of architecture, according to NCKU Vice President Chih-Chin Ho.
He said, architecture projects involve various experts, knowledge, and disciplines, and NCKU has every potential to serve as a platform to integrate different various disciplines for students and bridge the gap between academia and industry as well.
The course is based on the building project of the Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts (WWYCA) which is currently the largest design project in Taiwan.
With the first-hand information provided by Mecanoo Architecten, a Delft-based architecture firm which takes charge of the design of WWYCA, the course is designed to help the students to familiarize with the aspects involved in a building project including the design concept, structure, sound, and theater. A visit to the construction site is also arranged.
Francine Houben, a leading Dutch architect and the founding partner and the creative director of Mecanoo Architecten is invited to be the first keynote speaker, starting the course, Feb. 26.
All the designers, engineers and consultants involved in the WWYCA will be invited to give a talk in the course, according to Tay-Sheng Jeng, Director of the Department of Architecture, NCKU.
He said, “Taiwan has been organizing international architectural design competitions and introducing genuine concepts to fuse in Taiwan culture, which has elevated Taiwan’s international profile but triggered some opposition from the public.”
Most of the winners of the competitions are foreign architects and the design and the applied techniques are failed to be rooted in local culture of Taiwan, Jeng added.
The WWYCA is currently the largest design project in Taiwan, which costs more than eight hundred million dollars. The Center has been proposed by the Executive Yuan to be one of the Ten New Infrastructure Projects in Taiwan, according to VP Ho.
There are 18 classes included in the course and in the last class Houben will be invited to host an international forum with Prof. Dana Buntrock from University of California, Berkeley, discussing the WWYCA Project related to local culture and contemporary architecture development in the world.
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Combining academic excellence with industry momentum has been one of the missions for the faculty in National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan. A special topics course covering the designs in architecture projects is launched recently by NCKU Department of Architecture, helping the architecture majors to get the whole picture of a building project.
This is the first attempt for Taiwan’s architect departments to launch an intensive course to bring in the expertise from the academic and the industry in the field of architecture, according to NCKU Vice President Chih-Chin Ho.
He said, architecture projects involve various experts, knowledge, and disciplines, and NCKU has every potential to serve as a platform to integrate different various disciplines for students and bridge the gap between academia and industry as well.
The course is based on the building project of the Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts (WWYCA) which is currently the largest design project in Taiwan.
With the first-hand information provided by Mecanoo Architecten, a Delft-based architecture firm which takes charge of the design of WWYCA, the course is designed to help the students to familiarize with the aspects involved in a building project including the design concept, structure, sound, and theater. A visit to the construction site is also arranged.
Francine Houben, a leading Dutch architect and the founding partner and the creative director of Mecanoo Architecten is invited to be the first keynote speaker, starting the course, Feb. 26.
All the designers, engineers and consultants involved in the WWYCA will be invited to give a talk in the course, according to Tay-Sheng Jeng, Director of the Department of Architecture, NCKU.
He said, “Taiwan has been organizing international architectural design competitions and introducing genuine concepts to fuse in Taiwan culture, which has elevated Taiwan’s international profile but triggered some opposition from the public.”
Most of the winners of the competitions are foreign architects and the design and the applied techniques are failed to be rooted in local culture of Taiwan, Jeng added.
The WWYCA is currently the largest design project in Taiwan, which costs more than eight hundred million dollars. The Center has been proposed by the Executive Yuan to be one of the Ten New Infrastructure Projects in Taiwan, according to VP Ho.
There are 18 classes included in the course and in the last class Houben will be invited to host an international forum with Prof. Dana Buntrock from University of California, Berkeley, discussing the WWYCA Project related to local culture and contemporary architecture development in the world.
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