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In this Chinese name, the family name is Yu.
Kongjian Yu
Kongjian Yu (simplified Chinese: 俞孔坚; traditional Chinese: 俞孔堅; pinyin: Yú kǒngjiān, born in 1963 in Dongyu Village in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China), is a landscape architect and urbanist, writer and educator, commonly credited with the invention of Sponge City concept, and winner of the International Federation of Landscape Architects’ Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award in 2020. Received his Doctor of Design Degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1995, Doctor Honoris Causa from Sapienza University of Rome in 2017 and Honorary Doctorate from Norwegian University of Life Sciences in 2019, Yu was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.
A farmer's son and a strong advocate ecological urbanism, Yu is a founder of the Peking University College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. He is also founder and principal designer of Turenscape, which Fast Company called one of The 10 Most Innovative Architecture Companies of 2021 for “balancing China's hyperspeed urbanization with green ‘sponge cities’”. An often-outspoken voice in the world of landscape architecture and urbanism, Yu has been heralded by Michael Sorkin as “a hero of effective advocacy within a system fraught with perils”.[1] Several of Yu's core ideas for nature-based climate adaptations and ecological restoration, including the sponge city concept, have been adopted for nationwide implementation by the Chinese government and had a global reach.
^Sorkin, Michael (2018). Terreform (ed.). Letters to the leaders of China: Kongjian Yu and the future of the Chinese city. UR publication. pp. 6–15. ISBN 978-0-9960041-8-3.
KongjianYu (simplified Chinese: 俞孔坚; traditional Chinese: 俞孔堅; pinyin: Yúkǒngjiān, born in 1963 in Dongyu Village in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China)...
Technology Review. Retrieved 10 March 2022. Yu, Kongian (2018). Letters to the Leaders of China: KongjianYu and the Future of the Chinese City. New York:...
contributions from Charles Waldheim, Mohsen Mostafavi, FOA, Karres en Brands, KongjianYu, Kyong Park, Kathryn Gustafson, Stephen Read, Kelly Shannon, Richard...
Landscape Foundation Ken Smith (architect)，landscape architect, educator KongjianYu, landscape architect, educator, founder of Turenscape, Peking, winner...
Chinese landscape architect, Professor of Peking University YUKongjian[citation needed]. Yu argued that among other issues, the degrading environmental...
2011 Michael Sorkin, Ben van Berkel, Jo Noero, Odile Decq and Professor KongjianYu, and Tim MacFarlane were members of the jury. The opening night was held...
Panlong (高攀龍; 1562–1626), Qian Yiben (錢一本), An Xifan (安希范; 1564–1621) and YuKongjian (余孔兼) restored the Donglin Academy with financial backing from the local...
Holy Monks" (四大神僧) are four senior monks in the Shaolin School: Kongjian (空見; Kōngjiàn), who mastered the art of invincibility, attempted to appease Xie...
ISBN 978-0824814137. Wang, Guorong (2011). "Xibei yaodong minju leixing ji kongjian jianxi". Journal of Lanzhou University of Technology. wang, hui (2013)...
he was a contemporary of Yu Kongqian (于孔兼), both of whom flourished during the Wanli Emperor's reign (1572–1620). YuKongjian was a high-ranking scholar-bureaucrat...
have three early prefaces. The first "Zicheng version" preface is by YuKongjian 于孔兼, a contemporary friend who calls the author Hong Zicheng. The second...
Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) (Chinese: 巡天空间望远镜; pinyin: Xúntiān Kōngjiān Wàngyuǎnjìng) is a planned Chinese space telescope currently under development...
electricity systems. Water. The Sponge City concept, popularized by Dr YuKongjian (Peking University), corresponds to future cities that do not act like...
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