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Neville Mars 何新城

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Bob Neville Pieter, MARS
Chinese name: 何新城
Rotterdam, 1975
Current address: Beijing, China
MArc 2001, Delft University of Technology.
Registered Architect Rotterdam: 1.030415.038

Biography Neville Mars in China

In 2003 Neville Mars founded the The Dynamic City Foundation (DCF) 动态城市基金会 ; a research and design institute focused on the rapid transformations of China's urban landscape.

The body of work Neville Mars has achieved with the Dynamic City Foundation in the last ten years is diverse and characteristic. The projects he has initiated range from furniture and architecture to urban planning, and from documentaries, to art installations, urban research and creative writing. His work is widely published and his installations have featured in international art exhibitions around the world. The red thread that runs through his work is a is search for sustainable solutions that can work within a complex commercialized metropolitan environment. The conceptual underpinning of his work is based on the notion of urban growth as essentially evolutionary. This concept is described in his book on Chinese urbanization titled The Chinese Dream - a society under construction (010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2008). Since publication Mars has developed a number of buildings and green urban plans in China.

Currently
Neville Mars and the DCF has been invited by the Dutch Government to organize a multidisciplinary research project to be presented at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. The BARC project works with 5 Dutch and 5 Chinese renowned design firms to produce an integrated sustainable vision for the city of Caofeidian in Hebei. See http://burb.tv/view/B.A.R.C.

Short summaries in Chinese and Dutch below.

A preview of Mars' work is now available in Phaidon 10x10/3 in which ten curators select ten architects. Order a copy.

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The Dynamic City Foundation (DCF) 动态城市基金会

Specializing in design research of green solutions for fast changing urban environments, the Dynamic City Foundation manifests its findings in a range of media form publications to buildings to large artistic interventions. It dismantles long-term observations, spatial concepts, urban theory, and ideas along all lines to create tangible works of art. DCF is uniquely future-focused, and scientific about its imaginings at a time when closed-circuit televisions patrol streets, where deterritorialized space extends beyond nationhood, and in which urban sprawl spills beyond borders, requiring cultural, physical, and virtual space to be woven together densely as a synthetic mesh. Regarding Chinese cities not only as enormous, chaotic organisms, but as laboratories for global forces, DCF provides refreshing insights in an era of dangerous flash urbanization, in which there is no time to imagine a long-term future.

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CV SHORT

Neville Mars 何新城

In 2003 Neville Mars founded the The Dynamic City Foundation (DCF), a Beijing based research and design institute focused on the rapid transformations of China's urban landscape. The conceptual underpinning of his work is based on the notion of urban growth as essentially evolutionary. This concept is described in his book on Chinese urbanization titled The Chinese Dream - a society under construction (010 Publishers, Mars and Hornsby, Rotterdam 2008). Since publication Mars has developed a number of progressive sustainable urban plans for cities in China.

何新城(Neville Mars)于2003年在北京创立了动态城市基金会(DCF)——一个关注中国城市迅猛变化的研究设计机构。他的设计作品均基于一个理念，即城市的发展根本上来说是渐进式的。这一理念在他关于中国城市化进程的出版物——《中国梦-建设中的社会》（010出版社，Mars and Hornsby，鹿特丹2008）中得以详述。成书之后，何新城为中国的城市设计了数个前卫的可持续的规划方案。

CV Short Cynical

Architects have the sad but wonderful predicament of always being stuck in the middle. Stuck between client and contractor, between power and desire, between the mega and the minute. This makes their scope of view particularly broad and their attitude unsurprisingly narcissistic. They nurture an anal obsession for the perfect technical detail, employ this detail with bold arrogance to envisage a mega block structure, then passionately sell it as a utopian solution to heal the city, or even the world at large. Neville Mars is an architect.

建筑师总是困于两者间，这既悲哀又美妙。困于客户与承包商之间，困于权力与欲望之间，困于庞大于渺小之间。这让他们视野开阔又相当自恋。他们走火入魔般地追求技术细节之完美，并无畏地将此贯彻于超大型建筑结构，之后还满怀热情地推销治疗城市乃至世界的乌托邦式的的解决方案。何新城是一名建筑师。

DUTCH

Neville Mars 2008

De laatste tien jaar werk van Neville Mars kenmerken zich door een uitgesproken stedelijk visie gepresenteerd in een scala aan verschillende media. De projecten lopen uiteen van architectuur, stedenbouw, documentaires, tot interactieve en video installaties en stedebouwkundig onderzoek. Zijn werk is veelvuldig gepubliceerd, gepresenteerd in lezingen aan verschillende universiteiten en tentoongesteld op internationale festivals. Vanaf het begin van zijn carrière bij OMA - Rem Koolhaas tot vandaag als directeur van de Stichting de Dynamische Stad (DCF - Dynamic City Foundation) in Beijing is een diepgewortelde passie voor de metropool en de stedelijke dynamiek de rode draad die de projecten verbindt.

In 2003 is Neville een grootschalige studie begonnen naar de werking van hyper snelle verstedelijking in China. Dit project onderzoekt hoe binnen de context van een zeer agressieve marktwerking China’s verstedelijking zich kan toespitsen op een duurzame toekomst. In een multidisciplinair team zijn analyses gemaakt die deze realiteit beschrijven. Daarna zijn architectonische en stedebouwkundige ontwerpmodellen ontwikkelt die hierop inspelen. In april 2008 zal uitgeverij 010 onder de titel “The Chinese Dream - a society under construction” het werk publiceren. Maar ook nu zijn de complete projecten te vinden op het platform van de DCF ( http://BURB.tv )

Momenteel is Neville toegewijd aan de realisatie van duurzame projecten in China en zal tot 2009 touren door Europa en Amerika ter promotie van de publicatie.

Achtergrond DCF

De DCF is een architectenbureau met vestigingen in Rotterdam en Peking. Het kantoor staat onder leiding van de Nederlandse architect Neville Mars (TU Delft) en staat bekend om een bijzonder multi-disciplinaire benadering. Het werk van de DCF is hierdoor zeer breed en doorkruist de schaalniveaus van stedebouwkundige plannen tot productontwikkeling. De door de DCF ontwikkelde aanpak is sterk onderzoeksgedreven, met een bijzondere aandacht voor gebruikersonderzoek en efficiëntievraagstukken op het gebied van stedelijke programmering en openbaar vervoer en wegverkeer. Het onderzoek is breed gepubliceerd en wordt met hoge regelmaat gepresenteerd in lezingen aan universiteiten over de hele wereld. Interieurs, woningen, meubels en stedebouwkundige plannen zijn gerealiseerd in drie continenten.

Met name de laatste vijf jaar heeft de DCF zich gespecialiseerd in duurzame oplossingen. Hierbij zijn theoretische inzichten en technisch onderzoek op een waardevolle manier samengekomen om de basis te vormen van een aanpak die tot op fundamenteel niveau de duurzaamheidsproblematiek benadert. Meer dan simpelweg toepassen van enkele duurzame of energiezuinige technieken richten we ons op het ontwerpen we geïntegreerde systemen die de gebruiker aanmoedigt en helpt ecologisch verantwoord te handelen.

Binnen dit kader is gekozen op verschillende schaalniveau een duurzaam project te selecteren, dat gerealiseerd, dan wel momenteel in aanbouw is.

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EMPLOYMENT - OVERVIEW

02/’08 – Present Chief Architect and Planner Crystal CG Beijing, China

08/’04 – Present Founder, Architect Dynamic City Foundation Beijing, China

• For Crystal and DCF see detailed project list below

03/’03 – 06/’03 Project manager O.M.A - Rem Koolhaas Rotterdam, NL
• Rotterdam Central Station

06/’02 – 08/’03 Architect SPACEbrand Amsterdam, NL
• Architect, interior designer
• Director documentary: Moving Manhattan

06/’02 – 06/’03 Creative consultant The Mind, Brand Consultancy New York, NY
• Philips, Dewars, Coca Cola Company, Siemens, a.o.

04/’01 – 06/’02 Architect, planner, researcher O.M.A - Rem Koolhaas Rotterdam, NL
• Project designer Guggenheim Las Vegas
• Projects include; MAB, Schiphol Island, a.o.

07/’99 – 04/’00 Junior Architect BO2 Architects Einhoven, NL
• World Mall, Dortmund

07/96 – 04/96 Internship sustainable design William McDonough Virginia, USA
• NIKE HQ Europe, Eindhoven NL

Dynamic City Foundation - Projects and buildings

2009 Publication “BURB Magazine - an urban lifestyle magazine from the future”
Urban China Publishers, Shanghai - to be published March 2009

2008 Publication "The Chinese Dream - a society under construction"
010 Publishers, Rotterdam - June 2008

2008 "Neon Dreams" dynamic light installation, Shenzhen Biennale 2008,
Curator: Ma Qinyun

2008 "Zhongguo Jie / The Chinese Knot" mixed media installation, Shenzhen Biennale 2008,
Curator: Ma Qinyun

2008 "Eight Steps towards the Chinese Dream", installation, Ljubljana Architecture Festival

2007 "Beijing Real_time" Interactive Beijing for the festival D.E.A.F. 2007, Rotterdam. Curator Alex Adriaansen - V2

2006 "Freeze (H20)" multimedia installation for Code Blue, Millennium Monument,
Curator: Zhang Ga

2006 BBT, Model and video triptych, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou Triennial,
Curator Hou Hanru

2005 BOLONI Hotel and Flagship Store, Gao Bei Dian, Beijing. Design and research.

2005 "Beijing Boom Tower" mixed-media installation, Beijing 798,
DIAF International Art Festival, Curator Berenice Angremy

2004 L-building, Suburban Sustainable Housing for China. Assignment.

2003 Founded Dynamic City Foundation
Launched multi-disciplinary research and design project "The Chinese Dream"

With Crystal CG 2008 - Interiors and Buildings

2008 Shanghai Expo 2010, Train Pavilion, interior and content, Winning bid

2008 Tianjin Green CBD. Fully sustainable pedestrian orientated district. Bid.

2008 Tanggu TV Tower 1 and 2. Tianjin. Proposal

2008 Tanggu Exhibition Hall, Pavilion, interior, visualization technology and content. Assignment.

2008 Zero Emmission Office Tower. Tianjin. Assignment.

2008 Wangjing Mall, Architecture and development facade system, Beijing, assignment.

2008 Xiao Yue He, sustainable university district, Tsinghua, Beijing. Assignment.
With Beijing Institute of Architecture and Design.

2008 Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taiwan. Competition.

2008 Shanghai Expo 2010, Henan Pavilion. Bid (to be decided).

2008 Bouwkunde Exchange. Architectural University Delft, NL. Competition (to be decided).

2008 Shanghai Expo 2010, Shanxi Pavilion. Bid (to be decided).

2008 Shanghai Expo 2010, Solar Forest. Energy generating parking solution. Proposal.

2008 Shanghai Expo 2010, Tianjin Living Diagram Building. Proposal.

INDEPENDENT WORK AND AWARDS

2009 URBAN CHINA #35: “How to be holistic?”, Guest edited by Neville Mars, Beijing.

2008 Villa, Private gallery and Art Studio for Huang Rui, Cao Chang Di, Beijing. Completed.

2008 Phaidon 10 x 10, Young Architects. Phaidon Press, London, UK.

2008 Critics’ Choice - Shenzhen Architectural Biennial 2008, for “Neon Dreams”.

2008 Mercedes Benz Smart Car, Concept visualization for Trendbuero Beijing. Commission.

2004 Launch http://BURB.tv - the worlds first online open-source platform for Chinese cities

2003 Founded Dynamic City Foundation

2003 Winning bid: Philips Corporate repositioning - creative strategist, The Mind, NY

2002 Tandem Publication, “The Retail Bubble - design solutions for commercial densification”
and “The Cunning City - a vision of entirely market-driven urban landscape”.

2002 IFCHP Documentary film award; for Moving Manhattan

2002 "Moving Manhattan" - Documentary on the workings of New York.
Premiered Amsterdam film festival August 2002

2000-2001 Villa van Doesburg - Artist in residence Paris

RECENT LECTURES, TEACHING, WORKSHOPS - INVITED

Among Others:

2009 Summit Sustainable Transportation, Lecture: Mass-transportation Unraveled.
The Art Center, Los Angeles

2009 SCI-ARC. Lecture: A practice in China - between potential and reality. Los Angeles.

2008 Harvard School of Design, Lecture: Mediating Urbanism. Boston.

2008 Victoria & Albert Museum, China Design Now, Keynote. London.

2008 Columbia Uni. Lecture: The Chinese Dream - a society under construction. New York.

2008 AA School. Lecture and roundtable: Cities from Zero, London.

2008 RIBA. Lecture: How to be Holistic?, London.

2008 D-LAB. Sustainability beyond LEED. Shijitan / Millennium Museum. Beijing.

2008 Tongji University. Lecture: The D-rail - urban integrated transportation. Shanghai.

2008 Berlage Institute. Lecture: Architecture and the Chinese conundrum. Rotterdam.

2008 V2 Institute for Unstable Media, Book Launch: The Chinese Dream. Rotterdam.

2008 Sustainable Design Summit: Keynote - China between Dream and Doom. Sydney.

2008 Uni. of California. Keynote: MUD _ Market-driven Unintentional Development. Tampa.

2008 Architecture Festival Ljubljana. Keynote: The Chinese Dream. Ljubljana.

2008 University of Sao Paolo. Lecture: MUD in China, Sao Paolo.

2007 AA School. Lecture: Reinventing Urbanism, London.

2007 Edinburgh University. Keynote: Dynamic Density - case Beijing. Edinburgh.

2007 Tsinghua. Design Class Zhou Rong: From stereotype to Prototype. Beijing.

LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, COMPETITIONS - (CO-)ORGANIZED BY DCF

2009 Summit Urban Expansion, MIT / China Planning Network, June 15-19, Beijing.

2009 Symposium Mega-block, Columbia School of Architecture, DCF, Beijing.
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2008 DCF co-hosts the China Now international summit on urban planning, RIBA London.

2007 Jury, Beijing 2020 Planning Design Competition.

2007 Co-organizes International Forum "Soldier at The Gates" with Huang Rui at 798.
Tittle: Beijing and Beyond - Expansion and exclusion

2006 Organized Beijing Gao Bei Dian Flexible Building Design Competition, BOLONI.

2003 Teaching: Course Architecture and Brandalism, AA School, London, UK

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within 75 words

The body of work Neville Mars is diverse and characteristic. It moves between architecture, planning, research and art installations but has a clear focus on dynamic urban landscapes. In 2003 Neville founded the DCF and outlined a comprehensive research for China’s urbanization for 2020. The work is published entitled “The Chinese Dream – a society under construction” (010 Publisher, June 2008). The project is available on-line and continues to evolve on the platform http://BURB.tv

何新城 Neville Mars
何新城在过去十年的作品丰富多样而极具个性。他发起的项目跨越了建筑设计、城市规划、纪录片、装置艺术、城市研究以及文字创作等领域。他的作品得以广泛发表，并多次受邀展示其作品并发表演讲，他的装置作品在世界各地的国际艺术展上得以瞩目。从他始于大都会建筑师事务所（OMA）到今天担任北京互动城市基金会（DCF）的创意主任，贯穿其所有作品的是他对都市的热情。

动态城市基金会 DCF
何新城于2003年建立了动态城市基金会，并设计了综合的研究项目——城市中国2020。在来自不同领域的专家的合作下，中国迅猛的城市化得以在动态城市的范畴内得以研究并提出建议。该项目起始三年对北京及中国北方的研究成果将在2008年二月以《中国梦——一个建设中的社会》的书名由010鹿特丹出版社出版。在书出版之后，项目将在http://BURB.tv上继续。Burb.tv是全球第一个为理解并改进中国的城市所搭建的开放性平台。

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Theory and practice MARS01 and DCF

When considering my work of the last ten years I can trace two clear notions that have driven me in all projects and collaborations. The first notion is that architecture has a vigorous and dynamic relationship with the urban context it produces and with the society it aims to serve.

Exploring the interactions between man-made space and society has put me on a diverse, but distinct course of development. Also, it has made research the bases of all my design projects. Initially this research was focused on themes such as public space, hyper-density and mixed-use environments. This research was applied to utopian plans and proposals aimed to trigger debate on many social issues. These proposals in turn became the bases for large cross-media installations, blurring the borders between the fields of research, technology, art and architecture.

Steadily focus shifted to include themes such as increased commercialization of the building process, the explosion of architecture’s scale and speed, and a shift towards virtual and artificial environments. In 2004 I formulated a three year research project called Urban China 2020, that set out to map China’s ambition to build 400 new cities. The scope of this project and China’s extreme conditions incorporated all the previous research themes, and specifically the relation between the urbanization and modern society.

Important objective was to address the vast topic in an integrated way. So I set out to map developments at every level of scale; from individual, to block, city, region and national level. In a multi-disciplinary team the urban development was tied to diverse issues of culture, politics, nature and resources management. In typical (Dutch) design-research fashion, I set out to respond to the findings with concrete proposals, in the form of regional plans, new infrastructural systems, buildings and industrial products. The project was published titled “The Chinese Dream - a society under construction” (Rotterdam, 010 Publishers).

Working on the Urban China 2020 project introduced a important new line of research: organic growth. Within the pressured conditions of China it was possible to study the evolution of urbanizing regions almost in real time - as if working in accelerated laboratory conditions. It revealed the organic nature at the heart of the urbanization process. Ironically China believes it can, through sheer scale, control the outcome of its entire urban landscape. However, mapping the chaotic growth offers proof that even entirely newly built cities, are at the mercy of the same organic forces and continuous change we find in old and slowly evolving cities. Seemingly in control, the new mega-compounds are micro-planned, while seen from afar the countless new real estate projects grow together into vast morphing and unpredictable urban patterns. In the book I’ve coined this process Market-driven Unintentional Development, or MUD.

While building vast sprawling cities, interestingly China is also investing heavily in building green cities. This contradiction reveals some of today’s misconceptions about sustainability, particularly planning. The new zero carbon cities being built in China and around the globe, are first the products of engineers. They are generic plans, apart from the use of green technologies. As a result they are carbon neutral within the confines of computer models, but they have difficulty performing within the context of local cultures and societies. One by one these green pilot projects have failed. Working on a number of green cities, green CBDs, sustainable neighborhoods, and green industrial parks, I’ve tried to conceive what urban sustainability should really encompass. This definition has become the second underlying notion in my work; that all design should adhere to the logic of organic systems. Be it the evolution of regions, and cities, or highways, landscape, or the emergence of programmatic clusters, they all inherently follow market-driven organic tendencies. This logical should also apply to the scale of buildings; their technological hardware replaced by natural systems, their materials part of an organic life-cycle.

Following the publication the Dynamic City Foundation (DCF) I set up for research projects, has expanded to do commercial projects as the design studio MARS01. Today my work at all different scales, from the design of furniture to buildings and urban plans has sustainability as the core value.