Kongjiang Yu, Autor bei Urbanet

About Kongjiang Yu

Kongjian Yu received his Doctor of Design degree from Harvard GSD. He founded the Peking University College of Architecture and Landscape, and Turenscape. Big feet revolution, Art of Survival and Sponge City are some of the key words that depict his design philosophy, which has been demonstrated in his practices in over 200 cities. His works won numerous international awards including twelve ASLA Awards and five WAF Best Landscape Awards. His theory has been adopted by the Chinese government for its nationwide ecological campaign. He was elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016, and recipient of the Doctor Honoris Causa from the Sapienza University of Rome in 2017. In recognition of his scientific contribution within the field of Landscape Architecture, he was awarded an Honorary Doctoral Degree by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in 2019.

A Green Sponge in the City – Nature-Based Solutions Benefitting Urban Planning

A Green Sponge in the City – Nature-Based Solutions Benefitting Urban Planning

By Kongjiang Yu|2024-01-04T13:23:16+01:00March 17th 2020|

With cities continuously more threatened by climate change induced disasters, urban planning's reflex response is to protect cities against nature. But what if the solution lies in working with nature instead against it? Architect Kongjiang Yu invites our readers to imagine what cities could look like if they took into account ancient wisdom on spatial planning.