
ZHU HONGNANJIN CO-DIRECTOR OF YONG ARCHITECTS' OFFICE
Ho Yili Ho Hou Design Manager
Vice Dean of the School of Design and Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Lee Chi Yu-Ming Chuan University, General Consultant of Open House Taipei | Open House Taipei
Chiu Wen Jiu Head of Wen Jie Architect's Office
Co-founder of Shu-Zheng Chang 11 Office and Creative Director of Hung Jian-Chuan Education Cultural Foundation
Co-Director of Kai Yu Sing Young Architects, First Prize of the 2008 Taiwan Architecture Award
Ju Ruei Ki Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Ming Chuan University
Assistant Professor, Curator, Department of Architectural Design, Chak Chi Kong University
Wen Shin Art Center (No. 6, Lane 10, Lane 180, Section 6, Section 6, Minquan East Road, Neihu District, Taipei City)
$400 (This price includes liquor and refreshments)
365 days, 1,340 books come from all over the world to the bookstores of the Arts and Sciences.
The second edition of the Art Gallery's Book of the Year 2019-2020 exhibition, which opens its collection program for the Art Gallery, has selected nearly 300 books from the new collections throughout the year: from a collection of works by architects who are “published in print”; to the first edition of architectural classics; to the first era in which architecture and art are intertwined Hand records. The exhibition spans the 1950s and the present, inviting visitors to glimpse the origins of the concept behind the fascinating architectural spaces of the present. This exhibition will encourage creative reading through the “Salon” and reconnect design thinking with design ideas through discussions with speakers about books. The Opening Salon will invite eight speakers from the architectural and artistic circles to each bring a selection of books to share their stories and imaginations.
Eight architecturalists are invited to recommend one book during the opening, they are Hung-Nan Chu, Albert Ho, Jeanne Lee, Jay Chiu, Grace Cheung, Kyle Yang, Ray Chu, and Curator Jr-Gang Chi. Books they recommend are those crucial to their professional training and practice. As they are pursuing and passing on their idealism through their creation, these publications facilitate their transformations and achievements.
Jay Chiu and Albert Ho express their expectations for the development of modern architecture by introducing the collection of essays of Mies van der Rohe(1886-1969) and Fernand Pouillon’s(1912-1986) discourse on the housing planning in Paris respectively. These selected books also draw out the personal stories behind the speakers, such as Hong-Nan Chu's insights and revelations from the discussions on Transparency with the author Robert Slutzky in his class at the University of Pennsylvania. Grace Cheung spoke about receiving a Braille book unexpectedly during her study in New York, which led her to discuss the upcoming publication of paper sculptures. This experience broadened her imagination towards a more minimalist and three-dimensional approach to architectural publications.
For these professionals, books are time capsules that evoke past memories, meanwhile, continuously guide them to expand their imagination between the origins of their creations and their aspirations for the future. The interconnected knowledge system within physical books forms an invisible network, deepening and serving as a crucial indicator of architectural influence. As the speakers share the role of these books, the people and events they encountered throughout their careers are linked, as well as the spatial awareness they planted in the audience. The "unknown" feeling when picking up a book waiting to be read remains a beautiful experience that continues to inspire us and the next generation of architectural readers.