The Annual Ian L. McHarg Lecture : Kongjian Yu
2011-03-22
Source：http://www.design.upenn.edu/calendar/annual-ian-l-mcharg-lecture-kongjian-yu
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Fri. 1 April, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Meyerson Hall, B1,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Kongjian Yu has been a professor of urban and regional planning at Peking University since 1997, is the founder and Dean of the School of Landscape Architecture at PKU, and is now the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. He founded Turenscape, an internationally awarded firm with about 500 professionals. Yu and Turenscape's practice covers architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design, across scales. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Landscape Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, at the Harvard GSD, where he received his Doctor of Design.
Yu's projects received both 2009 and 2010 World Architectural Festival Awards of Landscape, the 2009 ULI Global Award for Excellence, the 2010 ASLA award of Excellence, and l 7 ASLA Honor Awards (American Society of Landscape Architects), 4 Excellence on the Waterfront Awards, and the 2004 National Gold Medal of Fine Arts of China. Yu publishes widely; his current publications include The Beautiful Big Foot, Landscape as Ecological Infrastructure and The Art of Survival. Through his works, Yu tries to reconstruct ecological infrastructure across scales and to define a new aesthetics based on environmental ethic.
Register: http://kongjianyuatpenndesign.eventbrite.com
This event is free and open to the public. PennDesign is a registered provider of continuing education programming for the American Institute of Architects.
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