Shanghai: Where East Meets West, the Past Meets the Future
| Date/Time: | Friday, 08 Oct 2010 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm |
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| Location: | Room 416 College of Design |
| Cost: | free |
| Phone: | 515-294-7428 |
| Channel: | College of Design |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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An architect and professional planner, Jiang Wu is vice president of Tongji University, one of China's premier institutions of higher education. He also serves as vice chairman of the Shanghai Architecture Society and is a member of the Architecture Society of China Steering Council and an honorary member of the Sculpture Society of China.
Wu earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Tongji University, where he taught architecture history and theory, urban design and historical preservation from 1986 to 2003. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Hong Kong in 1993-94 and a senior visiting scholar at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1996-97. More recently, he served as deputy dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (1998-2001) and assistant president (2001-2003) of Tongji University. Wu was deputy director general of the Shanghai Municipal Urban Planning Administration Bureau from 2003 to 2008.
In the past 20 years, Wu has published more than 10 books and 60 articles in his research fields. He is an editorial committee member of several top academic journals in China, including Time + Architecture and Urban Planning Forum (both Tongji University), World Architecture (Tsinghua University) and Public Arts (Shanghai University).