Jeffrey Johnson is Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky College of Design. He previously taught for 10 years at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University where he was the founding director of Asia Megacities Lab. Unfrozen interviews Johnson about his work at the Asia Megacities Lab, including the “China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanism,” exploring the most persistent typology of China’s urban expansion.
Show Notes
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Intro/Outro: “Blockbuster,” by Sweet
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Discussed:
- Steven Holl’s Linked Hybrid, Beijing
- SOHO Jianwai, Beijing
- Hutongs, lilongs, and other older “gated communities”
- Design and Solidarity > Megablocks functioning under zero-Covid lockdowns
- Neighborhoods > Defined by walls
- KPF
- “66” Projects
- Roppongi Hills
- New Songdo City
- Hudson Yards
- Lincoln Center
- Pacific Park / Barclays Center
- Flushing, Queens as an export investment market for Chinese developers
- Jiading – Yun Ho Chang
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