Casey Wang

 

Master of Architecture in Urban Design,
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Bachelor of Science in Architecture,
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

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Adjunct Associate Professor,
Urban Design at The University of Hong Kong,
Faculty of Architecture

Adjunct Associate Professor,
Urban Design at School of Architecture,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Guest Lecture,
HKU SPACE,
Plymouth University

Casey Wang is the founder of multidisciplinary design practice, BLEND. Her professional practice and research primarily focus on architectural and urban design, and urban infrastructure. Projects that she has designed and delivered include Innovation Valley No.1, Innovation Valley No. 3, Dogness Headquarters, Dong Chen Huangqi Mountain Sports and Cultural Park, Dongguan Civic Center, and Architecture and Urbanism Exhibition – Urban Proposition in Housing for Dongguan. She is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at The University of Hong Kong and teaches Master of Urban Design in the Faculty of
Architecture. Casey was an Adjunct Associate Professor in Bachelor of Social Science (Architectural Studies), Master of Science in Urban Design, and Urban Studies Programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2016 to 2021, which jointly organized by the School of Architecture and Department of Geography and Resource Management. Casey was an Assistant Professor in the Master of Urban Design program at the Hong Kong University Faculty of Architecture from 2010 to 2014. She co-edited Villages in the City: A Guide to South China’s Informal Settlements (2014) and Factory Towns of South China: An Illustrated Guidebook (2012), and has lectured at various institutes in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Germany, and Bangladesh. She was an invited exhibitor at the 2011-2012 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/ Architecture. She is an active member of Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design.

Prior to founding BLEND, Casey worked in Shanghai from 2003 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007 while in Cambridge, MA., her research interests were in the Boston metropolitan area, transformation of the Tsinghua University Campus, the Detroit Music Experience Museum, and the Almere area in the Netherlands. In 2006, Casey participated in the Metropol Parasol Seville project at J. Mayer H. Architecture Design and Research in Berlin. From 2007 to 2009, she was part of Foster + Partners in London, working on projects including the Robert Gorden University in Aberdeen, the Birmingham Library, the Esentai residential complex in Kazakhstan, and the Yale School of Management. In late 2009, Casey returned to Asia and joined OMA Hong Kong, working with Rem Koolhaas on key projects including the complete design phases of the Taipei Performing Arts Center, Shenzhen Qianhai Port City, and the Tencent Beijing Headquarters. From 2013 to 2015, she was a Project Manager at Gensler responsible for projects in Zhuhai and Guangzhou, China, as well as developments across Malaysia, Vietnam and Australia.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2021 – NOW |  Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Urban Planning and Design, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong 

2016 – 2021  |  Adjunct Associate Professor
School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong

2018 (May)  |  Instructor
School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Kassel, Germany

2016 – 2018  |  Instructor
HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education, HKU Space College of Humanities and Law

2010 –  2014  |  Assistant Professor
Department of Urban Planning and Design, University of Hong Kong

2014   |  Instructor
Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland

LECTURES

2018
School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, The University of Kassel, Germany

2016
School of Architecture, Korea National University of Arts

MSc in Urban Design at School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Betterment of the City, HKIUD Urban Design Conference 2016

AAM Architect Association of Macau on topic: “Beyond the Waterfront”

Course: Urban Design and Planning School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

LP Art Space and GAC Contemporary Museum in
Chongqing, Sichun, China

Urban Design in Practice, Huafa Industrial (HK) Limited

Thesis Design Final Review Architecture Dept.
National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan

Luncheon talk, Exterior Architecture, London, UK

2015
HKIUD Urban Design Dialogue Sharing Session
co-organised with the University of Hong Kong

Symposium, Exhibition, and workshop
Hong Kong Barcelona Urban Exchange. Barcelona, Spain

2014
Mega-phenomena, Department of Architecture,
State University of Bangladesh. Dhaka, Bangladesh

2012
Art+Design In The Public Interest, Detour 2012, Hong Kong

Metacity Workshop directed by David Grahame Shane from
Columbia University, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Counterpart Cities Workshop and Symposium: Climate Change and Cooperative Action in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City, Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture

2011
Taming The Megacity, Technische Universität Darmstadt. Germany

EXHIBITIONS

2018  |  Curator
Architecture and Urbanism exhibition. Urban Proposition in Housing for Dong Guan

2014  |  Exhibitor
Short listed award for Kai Tak Fantasy International Ideas
Competition on Urban Planning and Design, Hong Kong

2011 – 2012  |  Exhibitor
Symphony of Blades, Counterpart Cities, Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City, Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture

PUBLICATIONS

2018  |  Contributing editor
Possibilities of the New Typical, a Collective Intelligence
Tunghai University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2015  |  Contributing editor
Hong Kong-Barcelona Urban Exchange, A Dual Approach to Waterfront Regeneration

2014  |  Contributing editor
Villages in the City: A Guide to South China’s Informal Settlements

2012  |  Contributing editor
Factory Towns of South China: An Illustrated Guidebook
Hong Kong University Press