Casa Àsia in Barcelona is organizing a second important activity for June 21st, 2012. If in the morning it will host the business seminar entitled "Hong Kong: Commercial Platform of the Sector of the Spanish Food and Agriculture and Wine Sector in China", in the afternoon it is going to host a free conference by Stephen Siu Yu Lau on "Chinese Megacities: Tendencies and Issues for a Sustainable Urban Development".
Stephen Siu Yu Lau, has a degree on architecture by the University of Hong Kong (HKU, 1979) and a Master's Degree by the University of London (1981). He is the Director of the Faculty of Architecture at the Hong Kong University, Co-chair of Research, Design Coordinator and Supervisor of the Environmental Teaching Laboratory. He is also an expert in environment and sustainability, more specifically on the design of green buildings, low emission of carbon and sustainable cities. He is a Board Member of the Steering Group of the Hong Kong Professional Green Building Council (香港綠色建築議會), and an appointed member to two of Hong Kong Government's Appeal Panels for Architects and Noise Control Ordinance.
The conference will be in English without translation and will take place in the Casa Àsia headquarters, Tagore Auditorium, Diagonal Avenue 373, Barcelona, at 7 pm.
The event will bep resented by Rafael Bueno, Director of Politics and Society of Casa Àsia; Anna Vicenza Nufrio, architect, Marie Curie COFUND researcher, Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM/UPM); and Felipe Pich-Aguilera, architect, President of the Green Building Council España (GBCe), Director of the Chair of Industrial Building and Environment (CEIM) and teacher of projects and the Superior Technical School of Architecture of the International University of Catalonia ESARQ-UIC.
You can download a brochure of the event as a pdf file from Casa Àsia website.
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Skyline of Hong Kong from Victoria Peak. Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0[/caption]
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