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CAA campuses hold museums of grand architectures
At present, two CAA campuses hold museums of grand architecture. On Xiangshan Campus, you can find the Crafts Museum and the China Design Museum designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize winners - Kengo Kuma and Alvaro Siza. Xiangshan Campus is the work of Wang Shu, the first Chinese national to win the Pritzker prize. In the northeast of Hangzhou, the new Liangzhu Campus is designed by Zhang Yonghe, a Pritzker prize judge. The new campus is predicted to open in 2020.
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Welcome Home!
To celebrate the 90th birthday of the China Academy of Art, its International College organized a series of performances and activities, including KunOpera, folk music, PekingOpera and Watermark woodcarving for the foreign alumni to take part in over the week. We hope everyone has a fantastic time at university!        
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International Forum of the Art Academy’s Presidents Opens
The International Forum of the Art Academy’s Presidents- "Crisis of Art Academy and the end of Human" was held on Apr 9. The presidents of 60 international art colleges from all over the world and the presidents of a2ru, the International Council of Fine Arts Deans and AICAD | Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design discussed the future development of art with three speeches and several discussions on Art and Education of the Automatic Society,Performing the Art Academy and th
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Cornerstone Laying Ceremony for Liangzhu Campus
A Cornerstone Laying Ceremony for Liangzhu Campus, the newest campus of CAA which aims to open in November 2020, was held on the afternoon of April 8. Its design renderings were also published on the day. Prof. Zhang Yong he, the first Chinese judge for the Pritzker Architecture Prize led the design of the entire campus.    
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The Largest Design Museum in Asia Opens
The China Design Museum formally opened to public on the 90th birthday of CAA on Apr 8. On the same day, five special exhibitions hosted their opening ceremonies in the hall of the museum.CAA’s students performed “Xiang Peng – Figural Space Cabinet of Bauhaus”, much to the audience’s delight. [Photo from China Design Museum]         Due to health reasons, Mr. álvaro Siza Vieira, the designer of the China Design Museum, was not able to attend the opening ceremony on the d
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Celebration Convention of CAA’s 90th birthday is held on April 8
On April 8, the celebration convention of 90th birthday of CAA was held at Xiangshan Campus of CAA.   Che Jun, Secretary of a Provincial Party Committee of Zhejiang Province attended the convention and delivered a speech. Other leaders at governmental level and academy’s level also attended the meeting including Ge Huijun, director of publicity department of Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, Xu Jiang, president of CAA, Fan Dian, and president of Central Academy of Fine Arts, as well as
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2028-A Prospection/Special Exhibition of 90th Anniversary of CAA
April 8 welcomes 90th anniversary of CAA! When CAA is 90-year-old, we imagine what CAA will be like when he is 100-year-old. That is the reason why we curate an exhibition of “2028- A Prospection”. It opens on April 7 and runs until April 27 in Museum of Contemporary Art at Nanshan Campus near the west lake! Presidents from 30 international art universities, leaders of CAA and alumni attended the opening ceremony of exhibition.   The exhibition covers from first floor to fourth floor of
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Asian Bamboo Art Exhibition will Open
The Asian Bamboo Art Exhibition will open to the public on Apr 7 and run until July 6 at CAA’s Crafts Museum. The exhibition will showcase hundreds of works by around 30 bamboo artists, designers, architects, and craftsman from China, Japan and India. It not only presents traditional bamboo crafts, design, construction, and relevant ancient and contemporary research documents on bamboo. It relates bamboo culture with Eastern Studies to study the development of bamboo culture in the future life
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Exhibitions of China Design Museum will be on
Formal Opening of the China Design Museum- China’s First Museum with Collections of Original Western Modern Design Works during the 90th Anniversary Celebration of the China Academy of Art will be held on April 8 in Xiangshan Campus.   Five exhibitions and one show will be on at that time: 1. Life World: The Collection of Western Modern Design (Permanent Exhibition) 2. Subversion & Reshaping: The Collection of Massimo Osti Menswear (Permanent Exhibition) 3.Bauhaus Imaginista:Moving Awa
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Blooming Flowers in Spring
Now that the weather has finally become warmer, CAA campuses have been transformed into an oasis of spring. From white Magnolias to red peach blossoms, beautiful flowers can be seen around every corner.