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Rocco Yim in Conversation with Paul Finch

London November 16, 2013

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November 16, 2013
3:00 p.m. — 4:30 p.m.

WORK Gallery
10A Acton Street
London WC1X 9NG

WORK is pleased to present Reconnecting Cultures: The Architecture of Rocco Design, an exhibition of work by one of the most sensitive and progressive practices to emerge from the Far East.

Rocco Design Architects’ work is grounded in the belief that architecture is the embodiment of culture. Based in Hong Kong—where modern and traditional cultures co-exist, and values from diverging times and places converge and collide—the practice employs different aesthetic and architectural strategies to respond to disparate cultural and physical landscapes.

Through architectural models, photographic prints and sketches, Reconnecting Cultures explores how Rocco Design Architects gives formal expression to concepts that underpin contemporary culture: identity, spatiality, community, density, connectivity and materiality. The exhibition includes material relating to several of the firm’s key projects, including: Guangdong Museum and Guangzhou City Library in Guangzhou; School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, iSQUARE and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government Headquarters in Hong Kong; and Bamboo Pavilion, Berlin.

To coincide with the exhibition, WORK is pleased to welcome Rocco Design Architects’ founding co-director, Rocco, Yim, to participate in two AfterWORK Events. Yim will be in conversation with Paul Finch, editorial director of Architects’ Journal and the Architectural Review, and programme director of the World Architecture Festival, on Saturday 16 November, 3-4:30 pm at WORK. Yim will also give a guest lecture at Central Saint Martins on Friday 15 November, 6:00-7:30 pm. Jeremy Till, Head of Central Saint Martins and Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Arts, London, will introduce the lecture.

Following both events, Yim will be available to sign copies of the recent monograph on the work of Rocco Design Architects published by Black Dog Publishing, Reconnecting Cultures: The Architecture of Rocco Design.

RSVP to press@workgallery.co.uk

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