Kongjian Yu Will Give a Speech at Stanford University 2013 Spring Architecture/Landscape Architecture Lecture Series

SPEAKER: Kongjian YU

THEME: Designed Ecologies: The Big Feet Aesthetic

TIME: Wednesday, May 8, 2013. 6:30pm

VENUE: Clark Center Auditorium

SPONSOR: Stanford University Architect/Planning Office

CONTACT: 5-7508, nhagen@stanford.edu

ADMISSION: Free and open to the public.

AUDIENCE: General Public, Faculty/Staff, Students, Alumni/Friends

TAGS: lecture, arts, international, environment, engineering

PERMALINK: http://events.stanford.edu/events/368/36843

 

Recipient of a Doctor of Design degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Kongjian Yu is founder and dean of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Peking University. In addition, he is the founder and president of Turenscape, one of the first and largest private architecture and landscape architecture firms in China. His practice includes landscape and urbanism in major cities around the world. Professor Yu’s numerous awards include 9 ASLA Excellence and Honor Awards and a 2009 Urban Land Institute Global Award, and 3 World Best Landscape Awards of the World Architecture Festival. His guiding design principles are the appreciation of the ordinary and a deep embracing of nature, even in its potentially destructive aspects, such as floods. Among his most acclaimed projects are Shanghai Houtan Park, Qunli Stormwater Park in Harbin, the Red Ribbon Park in Qinhuangdao, and Shipyard Park in Zhongshan. He will discuss these projects and other recent work.