BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:577@ssa.ccny.cuny.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T193000 DTSTAMP:20240522T204152Z URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/spring-2023-sciame-lecture-series-shi qiao-li/ SUMMARY:Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series: Shiqiao Li DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be held in person and is part of the Spring 2 023 Sciame Lecture Series\, titled "Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture a nd Landscape in Translation."\n\n \;\n\nShiqiao Li is the Weedon Profe ssor in Asian Architecture\, School of Architecture\, University of Virgin ia\, where he teaches history\, theory\, and design of architecture\, and directs the Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment Program. He is the author of Understanding the Chinese City (2014)\, Architecture and Modernization (2009)\, and Power and Virtue (2006). With Esther Lorenz\, he is the auth or of Typological Drift: Emerging Cities in China (2022)\, and editor of K owloon Cultural District (2014). With Scott Lash\, he is the editor of The ory Culture &\; Society Special Issue: Against Ontology: Chinese Though t and François Jullien (2023).\n\n"Constructing a Ming Maritime Infrastru ctural State": Between 1405 and 1433\, the Ming state sent seven large arm adas to the Indian Ocean in one of the greatest geopolitical experiments i n Chinese history. Abruptly canceled perhaps due to the Ming state’s res ource exhaustion\, these armadas nevertheless present an intriguing case s tudy for what it could mean for a Ming maritime infrastructural state. The study of the constructed environment has always been one about the indepe ndent city\, memorably formulated in one instance by Max Weber. By shiftin g the narrative to one about the infrastructural state\, this lecture seek s to understand the intricate relationship between the city and the state. In the case of the Ming maritime expansion\, the material forms of the ar madas – from the numbers and sizes of ships to people and gifts on them – somewhat resemble a floating city like the new Ming capital of the For bidden City simultaneously being constructed in Beijing. Looming large as a mobile forbidden city\, they sought to expand the prestige\, influence\, and trade monopoly of the Ming state into the South Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean by establishing alliances with local kings and chiefs\, supp ressing hostile forces\, and constructing official factories from Malacca to Calicut. The armadas attempted to replicate the long-standing craft of state-building through infrastructural developments but encountered intrac table problems. This unprecedented endeavor to enlarge the Ming state into the Indian Ocean left an enduring legacy\; it stimulated Indian Ocean tra de\, linked coastal trading cities in the South China Sea\, Java and Sumat ra\, the Gulf of Thailand\, Bay of Bengal\, Malabar\, the Persian Gulf\, a nd East Africa\, paving the way for Vasco da Gama to enter and disrupt thi s pre-existing maritime world order.\n\nSuggested Reading: Shiqiao Li\, “The State Function of Architecture”\, Routledge Handbook of Chinese A rchitecture (London and New York: Routledge\, 2022)\, pp.702-12.\n\n \ ;\n\n"Across the Pacific Rim: Architecture and Landscape in Translation" b egins with what the Pacific Ocean is: a fluid place\, a sea where ideas\, people\, and artifacts move. It questions the framing of this great body o f water as a barrier or a void\, concepts that are rooted in colonialism a nd imperialism. Instead\, it posits the Pacific as an active stage for exc hanging and translating ideas\, concepts\, materials\, and technologies ab out constructed environments. The designers\, scholars\, practitioners\, a nd activists featured in this series are situated along the Pacific Rim. T hey examine areas\, products\, and product histories along the Pacific Rim . They call on this positionality to offer exceptional\, transnational\, b oundary-breaking\, hybrid practices and research that contribute to a shar ed environment and a collective future.\n\n \;\n\nAll lectures are fre e\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School o f Architecture Sciame Auditorium with a remote option available.\n\nIf you are interested in attending via Zoom\, please register here.\n\nSee https ://www.ccny.cuny.edu/return-campus for current requirements for in-person visitors.\n\n \;\n\nThis lecture series is made possible by the Spitze r Architecture Fund and the generous support of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO o f Sciame Construction. 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