By Rene Events
It’s hard to miss the On Leong Tong Chinese Merchants building on the corner of Mott and Canal Streets. With its pagoda façade and ornamented balconies, this iconic building designed by Chinese American architect Poy Gum Lee reveals the distinct hybrid modern architectural style often referred to as “Chinese modern.” Through Poy Gum Lee‘s body of work in Chinatown and in China, guest curator of “Chinese Style: Rediscovering the Architecture of Poy Gum Lee, 1923-1968″, Kerri Culhane illuminates Lee’s influence on the architectural aesthetics in Chinatown, the cultural and political impulses behind this architecture style, and the role of the built environment as an expression of identity.
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- Title: MOCATALKS: Rediscovering the Architecture of Poy Gum Lee
- Website: http://www.mocanyc.org/visit/events/mocatalks_rediscovering_the_architecture_of_poy_gum_lee
- Organizers: Museum of Chinese in America
- From: October 08, 2014 06:30 PM
- Until: October 08, 2015 08:30 PM
- Venue: Museum of Chinese in America
- Address: 215 Centre St, New York, NY, 10013
