Joshua Bolchover
Associate Professor
Articheture
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Biography
Joshua Bolchover is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he is researching and designing buildings in rural China. Recent exhibitions include Utopia Now: Opening the Closed Area, a research project on the Hong Kong and Shenzhen border at the Venice Biennale 2008. He has curated, designed and contributed to several international exhibitions including Get it Louder, a touring exhibition in China; Airspace: What Skyline does London want; Hydan; Can Buildings Curate and has exhibited at the HK-SZ Biennale. Joshua was a local curator for the Manchester-Liverpool section of Shrinking Cities between 2003 and 2005. He has collaborated with Raoul Bunschoten, Chora researching strategic urban projects and has worked with Diller + Scofidio in New York. Previously he has taught architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, London Metropolitan University, Cambridge University and the Architectural Association. He was educated at Cambridge University and at the Bartlett School of Architecture.
Research Interest
His current research focuses on the complex urban-rural ecology of cities INCREMENTAL URBANISM: ULAANBAATAR`S GER SETTLEMENTS
Publications
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Settling the Nomads: Rural Urban Framework, an Incremental Urban Strategy for Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Mulan Primary School, Huaiji, Guangdong, China 2012 Spieglen auf dem Lande: Grundschule in Mulan (Guangdong) Rural Urban Framework: Tongjiang Recycled Brick School, Shicheng County, Jiangxi China, 2009-12 Rural Urban Framework: Emerging architecture practice of the year
