Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture

Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture
Traditional Chinese深港城市\建築雙城雙年展
Simplified Chinese深港城市\建筑双城双年展
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShēn Gǎng Chéngshì Jiànzhù Shuāngchéng Shuāng Nián Zhǎn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingsam1 gong2 sing4 si5 gin3 zuk1 soeng1 sing4 nin4 zin2

The Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, also known as the Urbanism\Architecture Bi-City Biennale (UABB) of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, was founded in 2005. It has been held every two years since. It is considered the world's only Biennale or Biennial exhibition to focus specifically on urbanism and urbanisation.

The Biennale is a cooperative cultural event that is shared by the two cities under a similar theme. The selection process of the Hong Kong and Shenzhen curatorial teams are independent processes governed by different procedures and organisations.[1] The exhibition also takes place in different venues in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, with different exhibitors, during similar but slightly differing time periods.

Originally organised by the Shenzhen Public Art Center, the inaugural Biennale took place in Shenzhen and attracted over a million visitors.[2] The Biennale started being organised in Hong Kong in January 2008, with the exhibition "Refabricating City" at the Central Police Station Compound.[3]

  1. ^ Bring your own biennale : "2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture" : city mobilization = "09 Xianggang, Shenzhen cheng shi\ jian zhu shuang cheng shuang nian zhan" : cheng shi dong yuan. Yiu, Marisa. [Hong Kong]: [publisher not identified]. 2009. ISBN 978-962-7732-63-1. OCLC 854881696.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ "Bi-City Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\ Architecture". szhkbiennale.org. Archived from the original on 2018-03-22. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
  3. ^ Xianggang, Shenzhen cheng shi\jian zhu shuang cheng shuang nian zhan : zai zhi cheng shi = Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture : refabricating city. Zhong, Hongliang. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Architects. 2007. ISBN 978-962-7732-11-2. OCLC 275700842.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)