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Hong Kong Architecture Centre (HKArC) – Friends of Architecture (FOA) Meeting
Date:12/02/2009
Time:7pm to 8:30pm
Venue:G/F, 8 Peel Street, Central
Chairman of meeting:Mr. Alvin Yip
Minutes-taker:Mr. Platteen Tsang
Meeting with architecture students from Hong KongUniversity (HKU) and ChineseUniversityHong Kong (CUHK)
Both students had just taken over the duties from their predecessors in the student association / society respectively. Hence, this is the first official meeting between parties.
Introduction
There are representatives from three parties: representatives from the Department of Architecture and the Faculty of Architecture, HKU; and representatives from the department of architecture, CUHK.
The representatives from the HKU Faculty of Architecture representing also students from the Department of Real Estate and Construction, Department of Urban Planning and Design, and Division of Landscape Architecture. Hence, their interests are multi-disciplinary. Representatives of the Faculty of Architecture will be addressed as RFA hereafter, while, representatives from HKU and CUHK Department of Architecture will be addressed as RDAHKU and RDACU respectively.
‘Basic’
RFA introduced a multi-disciplinary committee called ‘Basic’, which was jointly established by 5 societies from 5 disciplinary courses in HKU. Therefore, ‘Basic’ is actually representing HKU students in the construction field. ‘Basic’ attempted to publish a journal years ago but was stopped.
RFA indicated their intention to revive the ‘Basic’ committee. However, RDACU raised the issue that involvement from CUHK is lacking.
Activities
Mr. Alvin Yip encouraged the participants to suggest potential activities for the parties to developing a closer network and enhancing communication in between, hence to grow a stronger bond, say, for the purpose to voice out louder in the future.
General feedbacks from participants upon this topic are:
1.Activities should be more academic and more informative;
2.Activities could include elements of art and design;
3.Visiting architects office and / or visits to construction sites are good considerations (Popular examples of activities include:
a.A guided tour to International Commence Centre (ICC)
b.Guided tour to places outside Hong Kong, e.g. Architecture Tour to Kaiping
c.Archi-talk by noted architects or designer such as Tadao Ando);
4.Sportive activities are not very popular;
It was suggested that a platform, such as blog or forum, could be established on the internet, so that more students could access to the most up-to-date news if they are interested.
Action: HKArC is suggested to circulate both current and proposed activities to participants for their attention.
A.O.B.
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Next Meeting
Friday 27th February 2009 5pm to 7pm
Venue: G/F 8 Peel Street, Central
It is suggested to hold regular meetings to keep all participating parties more up-to-date to each other.
Sorry for the delay but the minutes for the meeting held on 20.12.2009 will be posted shortly.
Happy Valentine's Weekend! No matter you like architecture or not, i hope you will find this meaningful in life.
Last Wednesday, I went to Sci-Arc for Wednesday lecture as always. The lecturer and topic is "Curtis Roads: Microsound".
Curtis Roads is a composer of electrical and electroacoustic music. Who's Curtis Roads is not important of this sharing. If you want to know more about him, you can probably do a Google Search on him.
The lecture was not only about the music structure and renovation. What amazed me is the sound spatilization, the aspect of music related with space. I attached some excerpts of Road's album. Those pieces are one-minute-long. AND HERE IS ONLY ONE THING YOU NEED TO DO - close your eyes once you click "play", enjoy it.
Some might just want to close this email because Britney Spears probably sounds way better and yes, it is quite not about music, however, the sound is actually doing something. Please keep reading.
Did you see it? When you close your eyes and listen to the sound-track, do you feel the physical from the virtual? Can you imagine a distance, a interval, a contrast, a SPACE with objects, and the movement of the objects?
The space and objects in your mind could be totally different from mine. It is quite about our personal experience. Music(sound) is always motivating a feeling since prehistoric era (if you don't understand, watch any movie on your hand, see what the background music doing for you). And now, sound is no longer pitch and noise, but becoming "sound to volume" " sound to space".
This electronic-generate sound unlimited the limited of space. Although Curtis Roads said that composing these piece is more like a personal hobby/research and the whole sound-to-space is just a out-come of the composition, not much of thinking the contributions to humanities (a sci-arc student asked a question about that, and the answer quite surprised me and disappointed me after this impressive lecture), and after all this, now What can WE (as human being making noise every-single-second) actually do to link up Sound and Architecture? I leave this here.
Please feel free to write back, i will try to get back to you ASAP, i promise.
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