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Current Work: DnA_Design and Architecture

Date
Tue
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May 31
Time
7:00 pm
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8:00 pm
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DnA_Design and Architecture | Huiming Tea Space, Jingning She Autonomous County, China, 2020. Photo credit: Wang Ziling

The spring 2022 Current Work series focuses on architectural practices designing museums, schools, and cultural centers that contend with the complex legacies of place. DnA_Design and Architecture is an interdisciplinary practice founded in Beijing, China, in 2004. Its founding principal, Xu Tiantian, practices what she calls “architectural acupuncture”: a subtle, localized approach to the revitalization of rural China’s built environment. In collaboration with village communities and provincial governments, DnA has built over 20 public structures in China’s mountainous Songyang County and other rural regions. Using natural materials and local craft, its work celebrates each site’s cultural heritage while opening new social and economic futures in the places where it works.