Board Director Chris Lanksbury takes a personal journey through cities from west to east
Chapman Taylor’s Board Director Chris Lanksbury spoke this week to CAID, the China Association of International Design, on one of their regular video conferences. Attended by 4,000 people, his talk was about his journeys around the world from childhood to the present day, and how they have shaped his own design attitudes.
The CAID lecture series invites experts and masters from the best international design institutions to share their valuable professional experience and advice on China’s urban and rural development.
Chris explained how his own formative experiences of city life helped to determine the way in which he has designed successful urban environments. As a young child, Chris was often on the move, from city to city and country to country. His early years were spent in the historic cities of Glasgow, Bath and Edinburgh in the UK, as well as Aden in Yemen. Chris’ working life has been spent living in London and designing urban places in over sixty countries around the world.
So how can these experiences inform the design of Chinese cities? In China, there has been rapid urban development over the last three decades. International urban planning and architecture have played a very important role, and Chris has been at the forefront of this with Chapman Taylor.