Guest Speakers

EUGENE TSUI

Keynote Speaker
Architect ~ Emeryville, California, USA
www.tdrinc.com

What happens when you form a partnership with nature's insight, intelligence and genius for design?  You get the extraordinary and strikingly imaginative work of Eugene Tsui.  Renowned for his revolutionary work at many different scales Eugene Tsui will bewilder you with his designs of homes, schools, commercial buildings, bridges, city plans, industrial designs, furniture, clothing ˜ every one strikingly original and functional.  Take a glimpse into the world of design as if nature itself were the progenitor.  Tsui's work moves beyond the trends of ecological design and biomimicry and implies a way of life to be lived ˜ the creation of an environment that expresses the powerful artistic impulses of humanity infused with the profound wisdom of nature:  Humanity and nature as one.

Dr. Tsui is creating a design revolution that is changing the way we thinkabout the world we live in - a world where nature is the teacher and facilitator of designs and ideas that make global sense and benefit all living things.  You will see the tallest structure ever conceived - 3.4 kilometres high - cooled by water springs and powered by the sun and wind; the world's longest floating bridge able to supply renewable power to Morocco and Spain, undulating like a giant serpent, over the Strait of Gibraltar; a mobile, floating city seven miles long and three miles wide powered by renewable energy and ocean water; a new kind of school for the 21st century at the base of the USA's largest volcano;  fantastic homes in the USA, Europe and China;  clothing fabric made of shredded plastic bottles and aluminium cans heated by the sun and designed to adapt to the activity of the body; tension cable chairs that bend and sway with your movement, and so much more.

Eugene Tsui holds four degrees in architecture and city planning and an Interdisciplinary doctorate in architecture and education beginning at Columbia University and ending with the University of California, Berkeley. Exceptionally accomplished in many fields Eugene Tsui defies description; architect, author, educator, inventor, city planner, scientist, industrial designer, artist, musician, World Boxing Champion and Four time Masters Olympics Gymnastics Champion, eight time Presidential Sports Award winner, awarded by two US Presidents; author of four books on architecture, voted by the Royal Institute of British Architects and the American Institute of Building Design as "Recommended Reading", Dr. Tsui's life is as diverse as his work.

He continues to be featured on documentary television programs such as National Geographic, Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel, The History Channel, the McNeil/Lehrer Report, BBC, PBS, China Television, India television, Euro Television, the Disney Channel and many more.  Dr. Tsui‚s office is a laboratory incubator for the development of new and untried ideas and a teaching ground for a new generation of architects, designers, inventors, ecologists and social activists from every continent of the world.

BOOKS:

The Urgency of Change, 2002  7-112-05155-X
Shenzhen Ecological Park Concept Book, 2001  Shenzhen University Press
World Architecture Review:  Number 72, 2000  ISSN1000-8373
Evolutionary Architecture:  Nature As A Basis For Design, 1999