Kongjian Yu

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Kongjian Yu (, 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 [https://www.iflaworld.com/newsblog/kongjian-yu-announces-as-winner-of-the-2020-sir-geoffrey-jellicoe-award#:~:text=Planning%20Knowledge%20Hub-,Kongjian%20Yu%20announced%20as%20winner%20of%20the%202020%20Sir%20Geoffrey,2020%20Sir%20Geoffrey%20Jellicoe%20Award 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 [https://www.turenscape.com/en/home/index.html Turenscape], which ''Fast Company'' called one of [https://www.fastcompany.com/90600111/architecture-most-innovative-companies-2021 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”. 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. Provided by Wikipedia