Prof. Kongjian Yu attended and made a speech the 40th IFLA World Congress

The 40th IFLA World Congress was just closed yesterday. It is a supreme activity in international landscape architecture. It was held at Calgary, Canada from May 25 to May 29. Calgary is a bright, fresh city perched between the prairies and the peaks of the Rocky Mountains. Prof. Kongjian Yu, the director of the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, Peking University, and the principal designer of Turenscape. The Congress also invited five other world-renowned landscape designers to make a speech on the theme, who are Thomas Homer-Dixon, Carl Steinitz, Douglas Paterson, Martha Schwartz and Michel Desvigne. The theme of the 40th IFLA World Congress was Landscapes on the Edge. Nine sub-themes include the Green Edge - Landscape Planning and Sustainable Environments, Cultural Landscapes - Maintaining a Local Edge in the Global Community, the Canadian West - Landscapes on the Edge, Urban Design on the Edge of Place Making, the Urban Edge - Transitional Landscapes, the Water’s Edge - Waterfronts, Wetlands and Amenities, Landscape on the Edge of Art, Landscape Architecture - Pushing the Edge of the Profession and the Cutting Edge - Ideas, Technologies and Solutions. It was sponsored by the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and was directed by the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA). A student design competition was held in conjunction with the Congress.