Hilgefort, Jason Richard
BUP(UC); MArch(UBC); PHD candidate(RMIT); AICP
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Jason is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban Planning and Design. He is the co-ordinator of the International Studio for the Master of Urban Design.
Jason Hilgefort is an urbanist | architect who studied at the?University?of?British Columbia, University?of?Cincinnati, and is currently a PHD candidate at RMIT. His work experience ranges from New York, Rotterdam, to Mumbai and includes working with Peter Calthorpe, Rahul Mehrotra, Maxwan A+U, and ZUS.?He lead Maxwan’s numerous competition victories in Helsinki, Basel,?Kiev,?Brussels, Ostrava, Hannover, and Lithuania before winning Europan 11 in Vienna. He subsequently?founded Land+Civilization Compositions,?a Rotterdam | Hong Kong based studio exploring issues at the ever expanding edge of urbanism that views city creation as an art.forum. Currently LCC is constructing Forest Park in Guangming, Shenzhen; detailing its winning urban public space design for Qianhai; and competing in a series of competitions in the Greater Bay Area.
Jason’s teaching experience includes Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, Finland, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. He was a subcurator in the Shenzhen/Hong Kong Urbanism/Architecture Biennale and a co-director of its educational platform. He is? the Academic Director of Aformal Academy for urbanism | landscape | public art in Shenzhen. He is also a regular writer, contributing to assorted publications over the years including Volume, Architecture Review, Domus, AD and more. He recently co-founded the Institute for Autonomous Urbanism which is focused on how the disruptive developments of dispersed infrastructure frame a moment in time where we can fundamentally reconceive of how we make, fund, and even conceptualize the world that surrounds us.
Studios
Interstitial Hong KongJason Hilgefort , Susanne Trumpf & Xiaoxuan Lu
MLA Studios2018-19
URBS2008 Design Graphics StudioJason Hilgefort
BAUS2019
