“We have no time to waste. Every indecisive day means more despair, more disasters and less time to mitigate and adapt. The situation is worsening fast and improving it is becoming more costly by the day. Our knowledge and understanding of that future and our capacity to intervene and act have never been this great.
We live in a period of extreme urbanization and globalization, where both the worst of social inequities and the best of civic innovations exist simultaneously. Such is the case in Taipei. This talk examines the post-colonial and late-industrial character of the city, and its evolution through creative public-private development strategies and land use policy.
Jared Della Valle will present his design and business philosophy, and Michiko Ashida will join him in a conversation on integrating architecture and development—and the opportunities it affords. Jared Della Valle is the CEO and Founder of Alloy. He has been a real estate professional and architect for more than 20 years and has managed
The ever-changing realities of contemporary urban life, and the challenges they pose for humanity and the environment, call for an urgent rethinking of architectural precedent. To create spaces suited to the kind of architectural complexity and urbanity present in cities today, particularly those in China, architecture must explore and embrace new opportunities for spatial reinvention.
