C-LAB Architecture Guided Tour

C-LAB’s location was once a military base. Before that, this site was home to the Taiwan Provincial Government’s Central Research Institute at Da’an, which took over from the Japanese colonial era Industrial Research Institute of the Taiwan Governor-General’s Office. In 1949, it became the Ministry of National Defense’s Air Force Command Headquarters. Within this site is hidden the trajectory of Taipei’s modern industrial and military development. It was veiled in mystery due to its high outer walls that were constructed to protect its military secrets in the past. Since its inception in 2018, C-LAB has continued to research the history of this site, inviting YANG Ning-Yao to lead the C-LAB Architecture Guided Tour which traces this site’s past through visits to the Military Band Office, Old Office Building (formerly the Industrial Research Institute of the Taiwan Governor-General’s Office), US-Aid Building, Communications Office, Zhongzheng Hall, and Political Warfare Building, as well as to bunkers and air-raid shelters.

The photo shows one of the guided tour spots, the Main Gate Guard House. Photo © C-LAB
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DATE2021.09.09
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Cultural experimentation anticipates a disobedient attitude that facilitates cultural reversion and creative collision. When experiments become an attitude, a wide spectrum of cultural initiatives and fresh paths will unfold and extend like water, shock, sonic, light, or electric waves.

C-LAB hopes to showcase the cultures of contemporary creators, makers, sharers and participants to nurture a fresh ecology of cultural creation, which emerges as a cloud sharing platform for all contemporary readers, utilizing humanistic digital technologies while incorporating contemporary art perspectives as well as cultural observation to introduce innovation into society through culture.

CLABO, an online journal published by C-LAB, aims to create confluences of cultural creators and serve as a community platform for all partners of cultural experiment projects. With unprecedented cultural experiments, we have started bravely venturing into the future!
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EDITOR LIU Yu-ChingMANAGING EDITOR TUNG Yung-WeiEXECUTIVE EDITOR CHUANG Chia-Chuan

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