In celebration of the opening of Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, Cooper Hewitt presents session one of the inaugural Making Home Saturday Series program. Curators Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Christina L. De León, and Michelle Joan Wilkinson introduce the exhibition’s themes, participants, and development, and explore how the exhibition’s diverse contemporary perspectives and approaches to home across the United States, U.S. Territories, ...
Winner of the 2023 National Design Award for Landscape Architecture, Kongjian Yu is a globally recognized landscape designer, founder of Turenscape, and a founder of Peking University College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Several of Yu’s core ideas for nature-based climate adaptations, including the sponge city concept, have been implemented nationwide in China. In this illustrated talk, Yu will discuss ...