Co-hosted by Yale Club of Beijing and Yale Center Beijing.

Event Time

Monday, April 15, 2024

Registration

6:30 pm-7:00 pm

Presentation and Q&A

7:00 pm-8:30 pm

Location

Yale Center Beijing 
36th Floor Tower B of IFC Building 8 Jianguomenwai Avenue Chaoyang District, Beijing (Yong'anli Subway Station, Exit C) 

Registration and Fees

Registration
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Ticket: RMB 60 for Yale alumni, and participants of past Yale Center Beijing programs; RMB 80 for regular admission.

*The registration fee for the event is non-refundable. Unless due to a force majeure reason, Yale Center Beijing will not refund any part of the registration fee if a participant fails to attend the event.

Walk-ins will not be accepted.

The language of the event will be English. . 

Note: Seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

The Event

The "glass house" is a very unique architectural design category, veritably a "room with a view." From the earliest "glass house"––the Crystal Palace built for the London World Expo in 1851—to the Farnsworth House designed by master architect Mies van der Rohe in 1945, to many contemporary masterpieces that use glass as the main construction material, glass has been used to show transparency, openness, and adaptability of buildings. Architect Andrew Heid '02 has long worked on the use of glass in private homes and other types of buildings. On April 15, he will bring his latest book Glass Houses to Yale Center Beijing to showcase 50 outstanding architectural works, delving into the impact of glass on architecture as a medium of communication between human and nature.

The Speaker 

Andrew Heid '02
Founding Principal, NO ARCHITECTURE

Andrew Heid received his master's degree in architecture from Princeton University after graduating from Yale School of Architecture with a bachelor's degree. As a licensed architect, Andrew is Founding Principal of NO ARCHITECTURE, a practice that seeks to create harmony between nature and architecture. The firm has built ongoing residential and cultural projects in Oregon, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Canada, and China.

Andrew has exhibited work at the Hong Kong Shenzhen Biennale, the Shenzhen Design Forum, MoMA, and the Beijing Architecture Biennale. He is currently Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a visiting assistant professor at Pratt, and a contributing editor at Phaidon.

The Moderator

Xiaoyi Pu MED '17
China Representative, Pei Architects

Xiaoyi Pu graduated from the Yale School of Architecture with a Master's degree and is currently the China representative of Pei Architects. She has worked for Kengo Kuma & Associates and Kohn Pedersen Fox in the past. Xiaoyi has won the AISC Architecture Award, and her book Chinese Vernacular Architecture published by the Foreign Languages Press, won the "National Top Ten Books for Young People Award" issued by the Ministry of Education in May 2017.