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Yu Kongjian : International Architecture Forum

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(per Wikipedia) Kongjian Yu received his Doctor of Design Degree at The Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1995, with the dissertation, "Security Patterns in Landscape Planning: With a Case in South China". He 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 in 1998, an internationally awarded firm with about 600 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. Through his works, Yu tries to reconstruct ecological infrastructure across scales and to define a new aesthetics based on environmental ethic.

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Title

Yu Kongjian : International Architecture Forum

Creator

Kongjian, Yu.

Creator

University of California, Berkeley. Coll. of Environ. Design

Published

Berkeley, CA, University of California, Berkeley, Coll. of Environ. Design, Aug. 30, 2018

Full Collection Name

College of Environmental Design Lectures

Type

Video

Archive

Environmental Design Library

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Collection

CED Lectures

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8_30_18_YuKongjian_02.mp4

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