Kongjian Yu

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Kongjian Yu (* 1963 in Jinhua ) is a Chinese landscape architect , university professor at Peking University PKU and founder of the planning office Turenscape in Beijing .

Life

Kongjian Yu received his PhD from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1995 on "Security Patterns in Landscape Planning: With a Case in South China". He has been Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Peking University since 1997 , as well as founder and dean of the School of Landscape Architecture at PKU, now the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture . In 1998 he founded his internationally active and internationally recognized landscape architecture firm Turenscape with around 600 employees today. Kongjian Yu's work deals with tasks from architecture , landscape architecture and urban planning on all scales. He is visiting professor of landscape architecture in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design. In his projects, Yu pursues the goal of rebuilding ecological infrastructures and thereby developing a new environmental aesthetic based on basic positions of environmental ethics .

Awards

Kongjian Yu's works won the World Architectural Festival Awards of Landscape in 2009 and 2010 , the ULI Global Award for Excellence in 2009, the ASLA award of Excellence in 2010 and 7 ASLA Honor Awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects . He received four Excellence on the Waterfront Awards , the National Gold Medal of Fine Arts of China in 2004, and he was a juror at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2010 . In 2016, Yu was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works

  • Yanweizhou Park in Jinhua / China (2014)
  • Qunli Stormwater Park in Haerbin / China (2011)
  • Red Ribbon Park in Qinhuangdao / China (2009)
  • Shipyard Park in Zhongshan / China (2009)

Publications

  • Kongjian Yu, Gary Austin: Constructed Wetlands and Sustainable Development . Routledge, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-138-90899-4 .
  • William S. Saunders: Designed Ecologies: The Landscape Architecture of Kongjian Yu . Birkhäuser, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-0346-0738-4 .
  • Kongjian Yu, Mary Padua: Art of Survival: Recovering Landscape Architecture . Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd, Mulgrave, Victoria, 3170 Australia 2007, ISBN 978-1-86470-251-4 .
  • Experiencing landscape is the root of landscape design. Udo Weilacher interviews Kongjian Yu. (PDF) In: nodium, magazine of the Alumni Club Landscape at the Technical University of Munich 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bart Johnson, Kristina Hill: Ecology and design: frameworks for learning . Island Press , 2002, ISBN 978-1-55963-813-5 , p. 239.
  2. ^ Monroe Edwin Price: Owning the Olympics: narratives of the new China . University of Michigan Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-472-05032-1 , p. 246.
  3. ↑ 60: innovators shaping our creative future . Thames & Hudson , 2009, ISBN 978-0-500-51492-4 , p. 106.
  4. ↑ Turenscape landscape architecture firm
  5. ↑ Behind the red velvet curtain lies a culture destroyed . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , June 7, 2006. Retrieved March 27, 2011. 
  6. ↑ Discussion: Urban landscape design: people-land affinity . In: People's Daily , August 23, 2007. Retrieved March 27, 2011. 
  7. ^ Prix ​​Aga Khan d'Architecture 2010: 5 lauréats récompensés . In: Batiactu , November 26, 2010. Retrieved March 27, 2011. 
  8. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter Y. (PDF; 117 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed July 31, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Yu, Kongjian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Jinhua