Event 1: Caochangdi: Beijing Inside Out: Farmers, Floaters, Taxi Drivers, Artists, and the International Art Mob Challenge and Remake the City, by Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray

Date: Sunday, June 14, 2009

Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Location: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Auditorium, 798 Art District Beijing, China

Phone: 84599269 RSVP

Email: rbernell@gmail.com

活动一: 国际著名建筑师罗伯特·曼固彦（Robert Mangurian）先生和玛利安女士（Mary-Ann Ray）谈新书《草场地:北京从内到外-民工,流浪汉,出租车司机,艺术家与国际艺术群体在挑战与重新营造城市》

Authors Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray talk about their new book on Caochangdi, one of more than 300 urban villages in the city of Beijing.

Published by Timezone 8, the book tells a specific story about itself and its mostly illegal residents (including farmers, floaters, taxi drivers, and world class artists), but it also has embedded within it both the problems and the possibilities of a new urban space redefining the city of Beijing at this pivotal point in human history when cities make up half of the world’s population.

The authors, who live and work in Caochangdi, dissect the multiple phenomena that form this dynamic urban condition. About the authors: Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray are principals of Studio Works Architects in Los Angeles, teach at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) and the University of Michigan, and are co-founders of BASE Studios in the Urban Village of Caochangdi in Beijing.

Event 2: Caochangdi Book Talk and 'Jiayou' Pasta Dinner by Architects/Authors Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray

Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: Timezone 8 (798) Beijing 798, No 4 Jiu Xian Qiao Rd

Phone: 84599332

Email: rbernell@gmail.com

活动二: 国际著名建筑师罗伯特·曼固彦（Robert Mangurian）先生和玛利安女士（Mary-Ann Ray）谈其对城市研究的新著作,然后给来宾做意大利面三种.晚餐100元/人.

Jiayou means 'add oil' or, if you're a cheerleader, "go!"

Architects Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray, who just finished a book on Caochangdi are taking over timezone 8 this Tuesday, June 16 at 6:00pm to talk about their research on the city and to teach us all a thing or two about Italian (Roma) cooking.

After an informal roundtable discussion about their research on the urban village/arts district Caochangdi from 6:00 to 7:00, the architects/authors are going to put on their chef's hats and take over the kitchen at timezone 8 (798) where they will use their own cold-pressed and freshly bottled olive oil, grown on their orchard just outside Roma, to whip up three different kinds of pasta, for restaurant guests.

Dinner will be served at 7:30pm. Please RSVP.

Timezone 8

400 Meters Inside Factory 798

No. 4 Jiu Xian Qiao Rd.

Beijing 100015 China

Tel: +8610 8459 9332

邮编： 100015

北京市，朝阳区

酒仙桥路 4 号

(798 厂内 400 米左手边的红色平房 )

8503 邮箱

东八时区

电： (010)8459 9332