Artist Talk | ARTitecture - The Multi-layered Relationship between Art & Architecture  

Art or structure, form or function comes first in architecture? Walk inside a large-scale sculpture, do we call it a work of art or architecture? Architect or artist coming from different positions may have different interpretation towards these issues. The relationship between architecture and art has always been complex. Since ancient Rome, architecture embraces systematic aesthetics, which has been deconstructed in the postmodern era. Is there still a need for aesthetics in modern architecture? And how do we define art and architecture now?  

This dialogue between architecture professor and architect/artist will delve into the multi-layered relationship between architecture and art from ancient to modern and East to West. 

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About Speaker 

Prof. Chang Ping Hung, Wallace 

Fellow of HKIA; Registered Architect in Hong Kong and China; Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, HKU; Chairman of 1a space; Director of the Urban Place Research Unit; Visiting Scholar in Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University; Advisory Committee Member on Revitalization of Historic Buildings. He is both an architectural practitioner and theorist on urban design, cultural conservation and community participation. His award-winning designs range from urban washroom to university academic building. Also, he is a social activist to promote a civil consciousness on urban environment, community conservation and sustainable planning, including his recent advocacy on the redevelopment planning and architecture of Shek Tsai Leng [Dills Corner Garden] Elderly Caring District. He has been conducting research with exhibition in Habitat City and Bamboo Theatre. His latest research, Kai Tak River Green Corridor Community Education Project [HKADC 2013 Award of Arts Education, International Award for Public Art 2015], focuses on cultural identity and urban sustainability issues during the urban transformation process in Hong Kong and southern Chinese cities. To recognize his contribution to the promotion of cultural conservation, he was awarded Certificate of Commendation by the Secretary for Home Affairs in 2015. 

Haynie Sze Wing Yee 

Haynie Sze is an architect/art practitioner who graduated with a Master of Architecture (2005) and a Master of Art in Fine Arts (2021) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has been active in art making, exhibition venue design and curating, besides her career as a practising architect. She has also founded the 3fifteen Art Space and the ARTUP Art Consultancy. Her award-winning artworks have been exhibited in local and international art exhibitions. Public artworks include Whistling Aloft and the Letters installed at the Hong Kong Science Museum Plaza in Tsim Sha Tsui and the Central Post Office, Hong Kong. Venue design for the Hong Kong Jockey Club Heritage X Art X Design Walk Event Tai Po exhibition was awarded the Best Temporary Architecture Design (2015) of the CHIVAS 18 Architecture & Design Award. Her curatorial role includes being a curatorial team member of the Venice Biennale of Architecture – “Delta Four (1984-2044)” (2014), and has participated as an exhibitor team member in the SZ/ HK Bi-city Biennale of Architecture – “City Mobilization” (2009) & “Beyond the Urban Edge: The Ideal City?”(2013), and Venice Biennale of Architecture – “Quotidian Architectures” (2010) & “Vertical Fabric – Density in Landscape” (2018). 

She currently focuses on art teaching, curating and architectural research on spatial psychology and perception.