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​​Upcoming: Talk with Catherine Seavitt and Guy Nordenson in School of Design

​Combining the four aspects of structure, architecture, landscape, and ecology, we can envision a future environment that is full of innovation and sustainability. Buildings and landscapes are not only spaces for people to live in, but also ecosystems in harmony with nature. Through structural innovation, green architecture, ecological landscaping and community involvement, we can realize the harmonious coexistence of human and nature and leave a better home for future generations. Focusing on this topic, the School of Design invited Guy Nordenson, Professor of Architecture and Structural Engineering from Princeton University, and Catherine Seavitt, Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Xing RUAN, Dean and Chair Professor of the School of Design, CHEN Ruishan, Vice Dean and Professor of Landscape Architecture, CHE Shengquan, Professor of Landscape Architecture, as well as LIU Yichun, ZHANG Zhun, LI Zhongwei and other first-class architects and designers in China have been invited to join this in-depth academic discussion.

Information

Time 

10:30-15:00，Monday, June 3rd, 2024

Venue

Rm 416, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Program

Seminar Ⅰ    10:30-12:00

Topic  From structural representation to the poetics of architecture

Moderator  RUAN Xing

Discussants  Guy Nordenson Catherine Seavitt

Respondents  LIU Yichun  ZHANG Zhun

Seminar Ⅱ    13:30-15:00

Topic  Imagining a future of landscape and ecology

Moderator  CHEN Ruishan

Discussants  Catherine Seavitt  Guy Nordenson 

Respondents  CHE Shengquan LI Zhongwei

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Guests

Catherine Seavitt

Catherine Seavitt is Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania's Stuart Weitzman School of Design, where she holds the Martin and Maggie Melson Chair in Urban Planning. She is Co-Executive Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology and Creative Director of the LA+ Journal. A registered architect and landscape architect, her research focuses on urban landscapes, coastal resilience, post-industrial sites, and creative plant knowledge, with an emphasis on viable responses to the climate crisis and decarbonization. Seavitt's publications include Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship (University of Texas Press, 2018), Structures of Coastal Resilience (Island Press, 2018), and Four Corridors (Hatje Cantz, 2019).

Guy Nordenson

Guy Nordenson is a structural engineer and Professor of Architecture and Engineering at Princeton University. His notable engineering work includes the Giubileo Church in Rome, the Santa Fe Opera, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., the Studio Museum in Harlem, the 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, and the Kimbell Art Museum, among more than 200 other projects and 40 museums. He has curated exhibitions, chaired conferences, and authored numerous books with the Museum of Modern Art.

Guy Nordenson was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 as a Fellow of the Visual Arts.

LIU Yichun

LIU Yichun is the principal architect and founding partner of Atelier Deshaus, and a visiting professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University. He is a chartered member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), a member of the editorial boards of The Architect and Architectural Journal, a member of the Architectural Design Committee of the Science and Technology Commission of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

ZHANG Zhun

Co-founder/principal architect of Archi-Neering-Design/AND Office, Senior Engineer of Tongji University Architectural Design and Research Institute (Group) Co., National Level Registered Structural Engineer, National Level Registered Civil Engineer (Geotechnical), Member of Editorial Board of Architectural Techniques Magazine.

CHE Shengquan

Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong School of Design and Director of the Center for Sustainable Ecological Design. He has long been devoted to research on urban and rural ecosystem services and sustainable ecological design, climate-adaptive cities and resilient cities, etc. He has presided over more than 20 scientific research projects at the national level and provincial and ministerial levels, and has published more than 100 academic papers and essays (as the first or corresponding author), 8 monographs, 18 invention patents, and more than 10 demonstrations of application of achievements.

LI Zhongwei

Co-founder of Lab D+H, Creative Director (Shanghai), Master of Landscape Architecture from University of Pennsylvania, Member of American Society of Landscape Architects. Years of practice in pioneering firms have made Li Zhongwei a solid practitioner of urbanism, with a constant interest in the urban fabric and culture of the city. As co-founder of Lab D+H and Creative Director of the Shanghai office, Li has led a team that has won numerous international awards in recent years, such as the Honorable Mention in the 2020 ASLA NATIONAL AWARD.

Moderators

RUAN Xing

By：Luisa Basso

Dean and Guangqi Chair Professor of Architecture at School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prior to his current appointment, he was Chair of Architecture and Associate Dean at Sydney’s University of New South Wales (2004-2020). Previously, he also served as Head of School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney (2002-04). Xing is Curator of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – China Pavilion; and Architectural Curator of the 2019 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season Biennale.

The titles of his recent books include: Confucius’ Courtyard, Bloomsbury 2022; Fusheng Jianzhu [Floating Life and Architecture 浮生·建筑], The Commercial Press 2020.

His latest architectural works include Shanghai Jiao Tong School of Design Building and the Beikun Garden.

CHEN Ruishan

Associate Dean of the School of Design at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has been engaged in research on land space development and ecological and environmental governance, and has presided over a number of research projects such as the major projects of the National Social Science Foundation of China, the topics of the National Key Research and Development Program of China, and the top-level projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published more than 70 papers in academic journals at home and abroad.