Kongjian Yu

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Kongjian Yu (1963) is a Chinese landscape architect, professor for landscape architecture at Peking University (PKU) and the founder of the planning office Turenscape in Beijing.

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Career

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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Works

• Yanweizhou Park in Jinhua/ China (2014)
• Qunli Stormwater Park in Haerbin/ China (2011)
• Red Ribbon Park in Qinhuangdao/ China (2009)
• Shipyard Park in Zhongshan/ China (2009)

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Awards

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 7 ASLA Honor Awards (American Society of Landscape Architects), 4 Excellence on the Waterfront Awards, the 2004 National Gold Medal of Fine Arts of China and he was a juror for the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

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Publications

• Yu, Kongjian; Gary Austin (2016). Constructed Wetlands and Sustainable Development. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1138908994. 
• Saunders, William S. (2012). Designed Ecologies: The Landscape Architecture of Kongjian Yu. Berlin: Birkhaeuser. ISBN 978-3034607384. 
• Yu, Kongjian; Mary Padua (2007). Art of Survival: Recovering Landscape Architecture. Mulgrave, Victoria, 3170 Australia: Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd. ISBN 978-1864702514. 
• Experiencing landscape is the root of landscape design. Udo Weilacher interviews Kongjian Yu in: nodium, Magazine of the Alumni-Club Landscape at the Technical University of Munich 2017 (PDF)

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References

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