Prof. LI Xinggang will hold a lecture on Monday 10.02.2025. in Urban Design Studio Sarajevo, Vrazova 3 at 18.00
Vital Architecture is a dual response to the ideal habitat of the tradition and the urgent challenge of the present. It takes the field research of “Wandering, Walking, Viewing and Living” as its basic inception, the theory of “Integrated Geometry and Poetic Scenery” as its essential ideology, and the practice of “Engineering-Integrated Architecture” as its design methodology. Through a series of design research and reversible dialogue of “envisioning-thinking-making”, it has evolved into five basic building prototypes and their associated practices, demonstrating how architecture can be integrated with the natural environment, historical heritage, structural aesthetics, community culture, and topography to create contextualized and poetic architectural experiences that interact with their specific environments.
Prof. Li Xinggang, born in 1969 Tangshan China, studied architecture at Tianjing University and received Bachelor of Architecture in 1991 and a Doctor of Engineering in 2012. He established Atelier Li Xinggang in 2003. He is the chief architect of China Architecture Design & Research Group， a professor and PhD advisor at Tianjing University. In 2023, he was elected to be an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Li Xingang’s architectural research and practice, with the philosophy of “Integrated Geometry and Poetic Scenery”, focuses on the creation of a close interaction between natural and artificial aspects of architecture and urbanism, emphasizing the concept of Poetic Ecological Architecture. His design work includes the Museum for Site of Xanadu, Jixi Museum, Gymnasium of the New Campus of Tianjin University, the Renovation of No. 28 Dayuan Hu Tong, and Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Yanqing Zone. His projects have won numerous awards, including the Gold Award of ARCASIA Awards for Architecture (2019), the Gold Awards of the National Excellent Engineering Investigation and Design Awards.
Li Xinggang was awarded the Liang Sicheng Architecture Prize (2020) and the National Engineering Survey & Design Master Award in 2016. Alongside his architectural work, he participated in numerous international exhibitions, including the Venice Architecture Biennale. He also held solo exhibition of “Integrated Geometry and Poetic Scenery” in Beijing (2013/2020).