Kongjian Yu and the redefinition of china's cultural landscape

Authors

  • Margarita Jover Biboum Tulane University
  • Rubén García Rubio Tulane University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-6057
  • Carlos ´Ávila Calzada Universidad de Zaragoza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2020154931

Keywords:

Water, Cultural Landscape, China, Landscape Architecture

Abstract

As a result of his important career abroad and his family experiences in his home province of Zhejiang, Kongjian Yu reflects in this interview on the need to look at and learn from the past, from tradition, in order to restore harmony to our relationship with the environment in which we live. Learning from the environment as a means of providing project solutions that are adapted to the very drastic changes that we are experiencing. All this with a global and local perspective, always valuing the strategies that can be applied in other territories, adapting them to the idiosyncrasy of the place. To this end, Kongjian Yu raises the need to train new professionals who know how to work with the variables we are facing in the context of the current environmental crisis, changing the dynamics established in professional and political circles.

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Author Biographies

Margarita Jover Biboum, Tulane University

Margarita Jover is Associate Professor of Architecture at Tulane University and co-founder of aldayjover architecture and landscape. Founded in 1996 and based in Barcelona (Spain) and New Orleans (USA), aldayjover is a multidisciplinary research-based practice, focused on innovation and in the specific character of the place. The work is particularly renowned by its leadership in a new approach to the relation between cities and rivers. aldayjover has designed the most significant recent public spaces in Barcelona (Sagrera Park or The Green Diagonal), Zaragoza (Water Park, Tramway), Pamplona (Aranzadi Park) or Ibiza (Vara de Rei), together with cultural centers, theaters, sports halls, infrastructural buildings, and housing. The firm has received, amongst others, the ‘European Urban Public Space Prize’ (2002), the FAD Prize for ‘City and Landscape’ (2009); The Prize for International Urban Integration ATP (2011), finalist of the ‘International and European Landscape Architecture Biennales Prizes’ (2008) and (2013), the Ibero-American Architecture Biennale (2004); and nominated for the European Union Architecture Prize-Mies van der Rohe Award (2009).

Rubén García Rubio, Tulane University

Ruben Garcia Rubio holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Valladolid (Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award), and a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Roma Tre. He has been a “Visiting Scholar” at the American Academy in Rome in 2012. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Tulane University (New Orleans, USA) and, previously, has taught in several schools of architecture and international institutions in Europe and the Middle East, where he was able to work on several university-projects that combined his teaching objectives, research interests, and professional work. In addition to his teaching role, Ruben is a practicing architect and is the co-founder of studioVRA (with Sonsoles Vela). His work has been distinguished with several architectural awards, both design and built, and published in international architectural magazines. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the architectural weblog CajondeArquitecto.com.

Carlos ´Ávila Calzada, Universidad de Zaragoza

Zaragoza, January 8, 1962. Degree in Biology from the Complutense University of Madrid specialized in Botany (1985). Certificate of Higher Landscape Architectural Studies from the National School of Landscape Architecture in Versailles (France/1988). Part-time teacher in the Department of Urbanism at the School of Engineering and Architecture University of Zaragoza. Teacher Master Landscape, gardening and Public Space University of Granada. Publications: “Zaragoza: Avanzamos rápido. Planes y proyectos para la ciudad 2000/2015” (2007), “Z arquitectura” nº 9-10 (2008), “El Parque del Agua” (2008), “El Urbanismo de la Expo. El Plan de Acompañamiento” (2008), “Civiltà delle acque. Valorizzazione e risparmio della risorsa acqua nell’architettura e nell’ambiente. Atti 2009”, “Parchi Pubblici, Aqua e Città. Torino e l’Italia nel contesto europeo” (2010), “#012 Low Cost” revista “PAISEA” (2010), “A New Strategy for Water & Green Space” nº 95 “Newsletter IFLA” (2011), “Proyectos integrados de arquitectura, paisaje y urbanismo 2011”, “LIFE+ TERUEL: Recuperación del entorno de Las Arcillas” (2014), “Jaca: Ciudadpaisaje/landcsapecity” (2017), “Urban Visions: from Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism” – Chapters 27/28 (2018).

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Published

2021-01-27

How to Cite

Jover Biboum, M., García Rubio, R., & ´Ávila Calzada, C. (2021). Kongjian Yu and the redefinition of china’s cultural landscape. ZARCH. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, (15), 166–187. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2020154931

Issue

No. 15 (2020): Urban Processes, Water Dynamics & Climate Change

Section

Miscellany