Kongjian Yu is principal designer at Turenscape, the Beijing-based landscape and urbanism firm he founded in 1998, and dean of the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture at Peking University. He also founded and runs the Turenscape Academy, a non-accredited, hands-on program focused on rural regeneration and located in a small town in Anhui Province. With more than 500 employees, Turenscape has become a powerhouse firm that has designed and built nearly a thousand projects in China and around...

Chinese landscape architect and urban planner Kongjian Yu, a professor at Peking University and director of the landscape architecture firm Turenscape, one of the largest in the world, often tells a story about when he fell into a river as a boy in rural China. He managed to save himself by grabbing onto branches along the edge

Kongjian Yu, a globally recognized landscape architect and urban planner, has made significant strides in the realm of climate resilience and sustainable urban development. In a series of five keynote speeches delivered between May Early to Mid-June , 2024, Yu highlighted the application of Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) by blending traditional Chinese wisdom with modern scientific principles. This report provides a detailed overview of his activities and the key concepts he promoted during these ...

At a time when Brazilians still watch, almost incredulously, the consequences caused by the storms in April and May in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil received a visit from the Chinese architect and landscape designer Kongjian Yu, creator of the sponge city concept. This concept utilizes nature itself to better withstand the increasing occurrence of storms.

In this context, the work of Beijing-based architect Kongjian Yu, founder of the landscape architecture firm Turenscape, has gained international visibility and recognition, which included receiving the 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize (“Oberlander Prize”). His "sponge cities" concept, designed to address and prevent urban flooding in the face of accelerated climate change, was adopted as national policy in China in 2013. This approach prioritizes large-sc...

Cidades devem absorver e libertar água para enfrentar alterações climáticas, defende arquitecto paisagista. Planos de drenagem como o de Lisboa “são business as usual” e a longo prazo vão falhar, diz.