On November 18, Prof. Denis Dessus, chief designer of the French Rhone-Alpes Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and a DeTao master in green architecture, gave a lecture on green energy and sustainable development at the Peking University Innovation Education and Research Institute (PIER).
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Prof. Dessus stressed that architectural design as a form of art should be both poetic and philosophical. Based on his many years of experience, he proposed that in this age of fast urbanization, attention should be paid to avoiding a surplus of social housing. He also recommended that China learn from France to ensure the provision of necessary facilities in the process of housing privatization and avoid sleeper towns that crop up around major cities.
About Prof. Dessus:
Prof. Dessus has been Vice Chairman of the French National Architect Association and Chairman of the French National Project Committee since 2009. He is also the founder of his own studio ‘Agence Denis Dessus’ and was awarded the National Oscar ‘Quality City’ for sustainable development in 1995. From a Neyrac spa hotel in 1993, the INDEED project in 2006, to the French Rhone-Alpes Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, his designs have become classics in sustainable architecture and his studio a trend-setter in environment studies.