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Marisa Yiu and Eric Schuldenfrei have just been awarded as one of the winners of the 29th Annual Architectural League Prize. Currently on view a mini installation entitled, ‘ReSource Vitrine: A didactic diorama’ in New York. Visit http://archleague.org for more details
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Marisa Yiu and Eric Schuldenfrei are selected to curate 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. The Hong Kong Curatorial Team is led by Marisa Yiu (Chief Curator), and also composed of Alan Lo (Curator for Arts, City Integration and Events), Eric Schuldenfrei (Curator for Exhibitions, Education, Film and Media), and Frank Yu (Curator for Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape). The team was announced Wednesday Sept 9th 2009.
2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture is a cooperative cultural event that is shared by the two cities under a “Two Cities, One Biennale” approach. Funded by the Government, the Hong Kong portion of the Bi-City Biennale is aimed at promoting education and public discussion around architecture, urbanism, design and culture in a dynamic exhibition that is free and open to the public. The team encourages the active participation of local Hong Kong and a great opportunity for companies, the youth, institutions, local community, general public, the entire city to participate. ‘CITY MOBILIZATION: BYOB (Bring Your Own Biennale)’ invites everyone to bring your OWN to engage and make this Biennale successful. See www.hkszbiennale.org for more details on exhibits and events.
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DECEMBER 2009
The 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture opened its doors on December 4, 2009. The biannual exhibition was held on West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, Kowloon, Hong Kong, until February 27, 2010. Visit www.hkszbiennale.org for more information.
Urban Cinematics: Film, City & Narrative, an international symposium at the University of Cambridge, December 8 & 9, 2009
AUGUST 2009
eskyiu presented their recent work at the Architectural Association Shanghai Summer School on August 19th, 2009, 6pm.
Urban Pastoral was exhibited at Innocentre, 72 Tat Chee Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
JULY 2009
eskyiu presented Architecture and the End of Ethics at Columbia University on July 15th, 2009, 6:30pm in Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall.
APRIL 2009
Returning from the 2008 Venice Biennale, Urban Pastoral was exhibited at the Heritage Discovery Centre at Kowloon Park from Feb 28th-April 30th 2009. For the response exhibition in Hong Kong eskyiu worked with The Organic Farm (Ms. Chu Pui Kwan / Mr. Fung Chi Fai) and urban farmers Dr. Arthur Van Langenberg and Ms. Nim Yin Chan for growing expertise and farming collaborations.
Remaking Hong Kong Architecture as Culture, Response Exhibition of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice Biennale Hong Kong Exhibition — Fabrica Cultura, www.venicebiennale.hk
Opening Ceremony
28 February 2009 Saturday 2:00 pm
Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre
Concluding Forum
On home ground — architectural culture & Hong Kong society
Saturday 18 April 2009 2:30 – 6:00 pm
Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre
Eric Schuldenfrei presented a lecture titled ‘Urban Dialectics’ as a component of a wider seminar on Cinematic Urbanism. He also participated as an instructor for ‘Narrascape: Urban Environment as Narrative System’, a workshop with the University of Cambridge hosted at Nanjing University on April 6-11, 2009.
MARCH 2009
Friday March 13th 2009- Marisa Yiu gave a lecture as part of the Archi-Talk, called Architecture engaging the Public at 7pm. Hong Kong Architecture Centre (Peel St.).
Marisa Yiu founding partner of eskyiu shared projects as part of their design practice with a focus on the installation entitled, ‘Urban-Pastoral: fabricating a vertical landscape’. This project represented Hong Kong at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale International Exhibition 2008 and was exhibited at the Heritage Discovery Centre in Kowloon Park (at the Venice Biennale Response exhibition ‘Remaking Hong Kong’ from February 28th- April 30th 2009). She also showed other public installations completed in New York, London and Hong Kong to discuss the relationship between Architecture, Society and the ‘Public’.
Eric Schuldenfrei talked about Urban Pastoral on Radio Television Hong Kong(RTHK) Radio 3
DECEMBER 2008
On 9 December 2008, Marisa Yiu presented at Pecha Kucha Hong Kong Volume #4 as part of a special Pecha Kucha for Business of Design Week featuring both local and dutch creatives.
DECEMBER 2008
“An unexpected, perverse beauty & order within” On December 17, 2008 Joshua Roberts, Marisa Yiu, & Eric Schuldenfrei organized a wide array of short films to be installed at dysemevas in Hong Kong.
Marisa Yiu’s essay and current research is published in New York based LOG Journal issue 13/14 – A special double issue surveying the significance of the seminal year 1968 forty years later. Essays examine the events and aftershocks of 1968 via the subsequent development of architectural and cultural movements over two generations. Other contributors include Jean-Louis,Yona Friedman, Anthony Vidler, Paul Virilio.
NOVEMBER 2008
Eric Schuldenfrei was invited to speak at the conferences and symposia entitled, Cold War Culture on 21 & Saturday 22 November 2008. This major conference brings together some of the most exciting thinkers on art, design and architecture in the post-1945 period to reflect on the ways in which Cold War politics shaped art and design. Organised in conjunction with the V&A’s landmark exhibition, it offers new perspectives on a period which continues to grip the imagination today.
NOVEMBER 2008
On Saturday, November 15th 2008, Marisa Yiu and her team participated in the Graham St. Market Festival showcasing design installations from her Department of Architecture seminar entitled, ‘The Politics of the Object: Transformative public and cultural landscapes”.
OCTOBER 2008
Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu were invited to speak on their recent work as part of the Lecture series at the University of Michigan Taubam College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Lecture Hall Rm 2104 Art + Architecture Building
OCTOBER 2008
Presentation of eskyiu’s work and Eric Schuldenfrei’s Research at Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA. Discussions took place with Scott Klinker the Designer-in-Residence and Head of the 3D Design Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art.
OCTOBER 2008
Six ideal cities built with 100,000 LEGO bricks were created on 11th October 2008 as part of an educational program called Building Asia Brick by Brick: My Ideal City. Marisa Yiu and Eric Schuldenfrei co-organized the event with The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups, Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design and the Faculty of Architecture HKU.
SEPTEMBER 2008
Representing Hong Kong this year at the Hong Kong Pavilion at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale International Exhibition. Urban-Pastoral: fabricating a vertical landscape by Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu officially opened at the FABRICA CULTURA (CULTURE FABRICATE) exhibition.
SEPTEMBER 2008
Urban Pastoral: fabricating a vertical landscape featured in an article entitled, Green Shoots of Recovery by Dick Chan (Gafencu), covered by Design Boom and previewed by Time Out Magazine.
AUGUST 2008
eskyiu: Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu were awarded 40 under 40: Designs Next Generation for Greater China’s design vanguard in Architecture by Perspective Magazine and Cierre Italia.
MAY 2008
Marisa Yiu’s article and research entitled, ‘ChinatownBOUND’ was published in DOMUS, China magazine. Edited by Ms. Qin Lei.