Courtesy Joshua Bolchover
Conference
Joshua Bolchover
November 1 2025, 5.00pm
Free admission upon registration
On the occasion of Milano Arch Week 2025 we present a lecture by architect Joshua Bolchover titled Becoming Urban: Developing Districts Unit by Unit.
The world’s climatic future hinges on how developing regions grow. Developing economies are projected to increase their emissions by 5 billion tons while the rest of the world plateaus or declines. The lecture will present prototyping as a method to generate new models of housing and community infrastructure that offer scalable alternatives to current forms of building. Strategies developed in Bolchover’s ongoing work in Nepal, Mongolia and the Philippines will demonstrate this approach and the challenges of working in rapidly urbanizing emerging economies, struggling with the processes of becoming urban.
Joshua Bolchover is an architect and Professor at The University of Hong Kong. His work focuses on innovating design strategies in regions undergoing rapid urban transformation.
In 2020 he started the District Development Unit - to scale initiatives designed to change how developing regions grow. DDU’s housing prototype for Mongolia, The Ger Plug-In 3.0 won the Holcim Silver Medal for Sustainable Construction Asia Pacific Region in 2023. His has been acquired by MoMA (2020), the CCA (2020) and MPlus (2023), and exhibited internationally, including the Venice Biennale (2016, 2018, 2021) Triennale Milano (2016, 2025), Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2022) the Design Museum London (2017) and the Chicago Biennale 2015.
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Credits
Parte di: Milano Arch Week 2025
Highlights
Veduta della Torre Littoria
Installazione luminosa "Luce spaziale" di Lucio Fontana sul soffitto dello Scalone d’onore. Nel vestibolo del primo piano, decorazione parietale di Bruno Cassinari
Modella posa nella sezione del Messico durante un servizio fotografico di moda
Caleidoscopio nella Sezione introduttiva a carattere internazionale, nel Salone d'onore