YEARBOOK 2014 - 2015 | XJTLU DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

西交利物浦大学 

建筑系 

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University 

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE 

2014–2015 

YEARBOOK

The 2014-15 YEARBOOK is a publication by the 

Department of Architecture, done as an effort 

to bring together, represent and communicate 

the diversity of academic and architectural 

output and production done by all members 

of staff and students. This publication would 

be impossible without the carefull selection 

of texts, projects and activities done by all 

members of staff. 

At various stages of the 2014-15 YEARBOOK 

production valuable, creative and generuous 

imput, advice, editing and proofreading has 

been done by Pierre-Alain Croset, Claudia 

Westermann and Marian Macken, while 

photographs featuring in this YEARBOOK have 

been generously provided by Edward Farrell 

and Christiane M. Herr. Leslie Sturino and Tess 

Humphrys from the University Marketing and 

Communication department have provided 

crucial support and proofreading. 

© 2016 Department of Architecture, XJTLU 

Designed and produced by 

Bert de Muynck 

Department of Architecture 


Building EB • 111 Ren’ai Road • Suzhou SIP 

Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation 

District, Jiangsu Province, China, 215123 

www.xjtlu.edu.cn


建筑系 




YEARBOOK

XJTLU | BEng Architecture [2014-15]

INTRODUCTION 

This second issue of the Department of Architecture’s Yearbook illustrates 

the design activity of our students on the BEng Architecture programme 

during the academic year 2014-2015. 

An important accomplishment this year was the validation of the 

programme by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Education 

Committee, offering all our graduates, past and future, full recognition 

within the framework of European higher education. It is a first step, to 

be complemented in the future by the RIBA validation (Part Two) of the 

MArchDes in Architectural Design, from which the first cohort of students 

will graduate in summer 2017. 

In its Report published in February 2015, the RIBA Visiting Board 

encouraged the Department to continue its efforts in creating “a 

distinctive environment in which students learn from an international and 

Chinese context, with an ambition to produce a new type of graduate, 

with an emphasis on human-centred architecture, for the emerging global 

context of the built environment.” What kind of architects do we want 

to educate? The RIBA validation acknowledges that the development 

of our students’ critical thinking skills is an important and distinctive 

characteristic of our programme, one that distinguishes us from many 

other Chinese universities. The Department thus affirms a belief in the 

merits of architectural education as a way of developing critical thinking 

skills for the longer-term future rather than training students for the shortterm. 

The Departments’ academic staff, as a community of individuals coming 

from many different countries and backgrounds, consider our Chinese 

context to be a productive platform from which to experiment with new 

ways of thinking, and to develop an innovative pedagogy for the formation 

of architects, based on a critical dialogue between Chinese and Western 

approaches. Pedagogy is at the centre of our vision and action, and 

beyond the specificity of architecture we are reflecting on some basic 

questions related to various aspects of creativity and to the relations 

between design and construction. To develop this innovative pedagogy, 

the Department will take advantage of the new design building on the 

South Campus, which will be shared with the Department of Industrial 

Design and completed for the start of the academic year 2016-2017. 

In conclusion, I would like to thank personally all the teaching staff for 

their passion, hard work and expertise that permitted the RIBA validation 

before my arrival as Head of Department in January 2015. I’m also very 

grateful for the engagement and enthusiasm of the students, which is 

reflected in the high quality of the selected works in this publication. 

Pierre Alain Croset 

Head of the Department of Architecture 


Introduction 1


about XJTLU 

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) is a new international 

university jointly founded by Xi’an Jiaotong University in China and the 

University of Liverpool in the UK as a joint venture. As an independent 

Sino-foreign cooperative university, it captures the essence of both 

prestigious parent universities and is the first and only one of its kind 

approved by the Ministry of Education in China. The University offers a 

variety of undergraduate degree programmes and awards both its own 

Chinese degree and a degree from the University of Liverpool. 

Located in Suzhou, a city that has been known as “paradise on the earth” 

since ancient times, XJTLU beautiful environment combines the city’s 

rich cultural traditions and its rapid economic development. Suzhou is one 

of the most developed cities in China, consistently ranking among the 

top cities in China in terms of GDP. Suzhou Industrial Park, in particular, 

has a large cluster of Fortune 500 companies, transnationals and R&D 

centres, which provide favourable social, economic as well as geographic 

conditions for the sustainable growth of XJTLU. 

XJTLU looks to draw high-quality students from China and abroad to both 

undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. At present, the University 

has over 10,000 registered students, including those who are completing 

study at the University of Liverpool. There are currently almost 60 

undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in the fields of 

science, technology, engineering, business, finance, architecture, urban 

planning, language and culture. All are taught in English except, for 

general and basic courses. 

www.xjtlu.edu.cn 

About XJTLU 3


campus XJTLU 



Building EB • 111 Ren’ai Road • Suzhou SIP 

Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation 

Distric, Jiangsu Province, China, 215123 

www.xjtlu.edu.cn 

XJTLU Campus


BEng Architecture 

2014-15 Programme Directors 

A. Benjamin Spaeth 

Claudia Westermann 

Modern China is developing into a new era for thinking about urbanism 

and architecture, presenting exciting opportunities for an architectural 

education at the forefront of architectural discourse and with an 

international outlook. Against the backdrop of fast-paced modernisation, 

the Department of Architecture at XJTLU engages with the challenges 

and contradictions of architecture in China in an open-minded and forwardthinking 

manner. Our students profit from the experiences of a highly 

international academic staff, and critically engage with the questions 

facing architecture today both locally and internationally. 

Innovation and development of the built environment derive from critical 

observation, constructive debate, speculation and experimentation. As 

academics and architects we involve ourselves in real debates, challenge 

common perceptions and evaluate traditions. For in depth explorations of 

the dynamics of urban life and designed spaces we profit from our unique 

location in Suzhou, a famous 2,500 year-old city with Unesco World 

Heritage status, just half an hour by train from Shanghai. Confronted with 

the past and engaged in the present our students are guided to design 

the future. 

BEng ARCHITECTURE 

The four-year full-time BEng Architecture aims to provide a comprehensive 

foundation in architecture. Students are guided to develop an understanding 

of the centricity of human needs and desires to architectural design tasks, 

and to develop creative and responsible responses by taking into account 

the social, cultural, ecological, economic as well as technological contexts 

within which architecture is situated. 

The BEng Architecture programme at XJTLU has become the first 

programme of its kind at a Chinese university to receive validation by 

the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), thus demonstrating 

XJTLU’s commitment to providing world-class, internationally recognised 

education to students from China and abroad. 

The Royal Institute commended “the Department and staff body on 

creating a distinctive environment in which students learn from an 

international and Chinese context with an ambition to produce a new 

type of graduate, with an emphasis on human-centred architecture, for 

the emerging global context.” 

BEng Architecture 7

Year 1 / Level 0 

Year 1 prepares students for the subsequent three years. Classes on 

English language for academic purposes are taught alongside modules 

on mathematics, Chinese culture and physical education. Year 1 also 

includes two modules that serve as an introduction to visual culture and 

architectural representation. 

• ARC001 Introduction to Architecture and Visual Culture (2.5 credits) 

• ARC002 Architectural Representation and Communication (5 credits) 


Year 2 provides the basis for the subsequent years of the programme. 

Students are introduced to the history and theory of architecture, building 

science, structure and construction as well as building technology, in 

parallel to modules on English language. Experimental studio modules 

introduce the presentation, modelling and design of architectural spaces 

and small buildings. 

• ARC101 Design Studio: Design Thinking and Articulation (5 credits) 

• ARC102 Design Studio: Small Scale Architectural Design (10 credits) 

• ARC103 Introduction to Environmental Science (5 credits) 

• ARC104 Structure and Materials (5 credits) 

• ARC105 Design Studio: Small Space Design (5 credits) 

• ARC107 History of Western Architecture (5 credits) 

• ARC108 Construction and Materials (2.5 credits) 

• ARC110 Humanities and Culture (2.5 credits) 

• EAP107 English Language and Study Skills III for the 

Built Environment (10 credits) 

XJTLU | BEng Architecture [2014-15] 

Final Year Project [2014-15] by CAN Cui [left] and WANG Siyao [right]



In Year 3 students pursue design projects in studio modules that require 

the integration of a more complex range of contextual parameters on 

the basis of a coherent design process. Students continue to learn about 

building technology and the history and theory of architecture and urban 

developments. 

• ARC201 Environmental Design and Sustainability (5 credits) 

• ARC202 Structural Design (5 credits) 

• ARC203 History of Asian Architecture (5 credits) 

• ARC204 Design Studio: Small Urban Buildings (10 credits) 

• ARC205 Design Studio: Design and Building Typology (10 credits) 

• ARC206 Urban Studies (5 credits) 


In their final year, students demonstrate an understanding of the 

complexity of architectural design processes from initial concepts to the 

design of buildings, taking into account human needs and desires as well 

as structural, material and environmental considerations. Modules on 

digital design and building technology, theory, aesthetics, and professional 

practice are designed to support the studio tasks. In Year 4 students have 

the opportunity to select their studio projects from a series of parallel 

briefs. 

• ARC301 Architectural Technology (5 credits) 

• ARC303 Architectural Theory (5 credits) 

• ARC304 Design Studio: Final Year Project (10 credits) 

• ARC305 Design Studio: Small and Medium Scale Buildings (10 credits) 

• ARC306 Professional Practice (5 credits) 

• ARC308 Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics (5 credits) 


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MArchDes 

2014-15 Programme Director 

Christian Gänshirt 

The Master of Architectural Design (MArchDes) is a two-year, full-time 

professional programme. Upon successful completion, an international 

Master of Architectural Design (MArchDes) degree is awarded from the 

University of Liverpool, for which we have initiated international validation 

at RIBA Part Two level from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). 

The programme is registered with and recognised by the Chinese Ministry 

of Education (MoE). We are also seeking professional accreditation from 

the Ministry of Construction in China. 

This programme prepares students for two main purposes: firstly, to work 

as fully qualified professional architects, secondly to conduct independent 

research, qualifying for further PhD-level studies. 

The Master of Architectural Design (MArchDes) programme is designed to 

deliver all the learning outcomes as defined by RIBA to qualify for Part Two, 

which is the second out of three stages in the formal educational process 

required to register as a professional architect in the United Kingdom. The 

programme offers an international perspective, at the same time enabling 

the students to grapple with the demands of rapid modernisation in China. 

MArchDes 11

Master of Architectural Design (MArchDes) 

Year 1 [Semester 1] 

ARC403 Applied Technology in Architecture (5 credits) 

ARC405 Design Studio I (10 credits) 

ARC407 Architectural Theory and Criticism (5 credits) 

Additional Learning Activities 


ARC402 Advanced Professional Practice (5 credits) 

ARC404 Design Studio II (10 credits) 

ARC406 Topics in Architectural History (5 credits) 

Additional Learning Activities 

Summer break 

Additional Learning Activities / Internship / Study Trip 


ARC409 Architectural Design and Research Methods (5 credits) 

ARC411 Practice- based Enquiry and Arch. Representation (5 credits) 

ARC413 Design Studio III (10 credits) 


ARC 408 Written Thesis 5 (5 credits) 

ARC 410 Design Studio IV / Thesis Project (15 credits) 


MArchDes 

Each of the four semesters of the Master of Architectural Design 

(MArchDes) is centred on a unit-based studio module. In Year 1, the 

curriculum focusses on developing students’ professional and design 

skills. The core of the programme is the design studio, where students 

practice the thinking and making of architectural projects, and improve their 

abilities to use a broad range of visual and verbal design tools. Modules on 

technological and professional skills as well as modules on the theory and 

history of architecture complement the studio work. 

During the winter breaks, and in the summer break between Years 1 and 2, 

students are advised to do 400 to 600 hours of complementary activities 

such as independent research, study travel, or internships in an architecturerelated 

practices, which count as part of their non-credit bearing Additional 

Learning Activities. The Department is currently establishing agreements 

with renowned Chinese architects to take in masters students as interns. 

In Year 2, the curriculum focusses on reinforcing students’ research 

competence in order to create a basis for their individual design approach. 

The design studio continues to be the core of the programme, where 

students develop an architectural enquiry over two consecutive semesters, 

leading to a final thesis project. Other modules in the programme support 

individual research and design approaches, and complement the student’s 

architectural project with a theoretical basis and critical discourse. 

Design studio units are formed around research foci from within the 

Department to meet specific needs of the profession both locally and 

abroad. Each studio module contains one or several shorter design briefs 

offering students opportunities and challenges to conduct practice-based 

research. Design work in the studios is expected to amount to a coherent 

body of work for each student, which forms the intellectual basis for the 

final thesis design project, accompanied by a written thesis. 

MArchDes 

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CONTENT 

2014-15 YEARBOOK 1 INTRODUCTION 

7 BENG ARCHITECTURE 

LEVEL 00 - YEAR 1 

21 ARC001 Introduction to Architecture and Visual Culture 

23 ARC002 Architectural Representation and Communication 


29 ARC103 Introduction to Environmental Science 

31 ARC104 Structure and Materials 

33 ARC107 History of Western Architecture 

35 ARC108 Construction and Materials 

37 ARC110 Humanities and Culture 

39 ARC101 Design Studio | Design Thinking and Articulation 

47 ARC105 Design Studio | Small Space Design 

53 ARC102 Design Studio | Small Scale Architectural Design 


65 ARC201 Environmental Design and Sustainability 

67 ARC202 Structural Design 

69 ARC203 History of Asian Architecture 

71 ARC206 Urban Studies 

73 ARC204 Design Studio | Small Urban Buildings 

83 ARC205 Design Studio | Design and Building Typology 


93 ARC301 Architectural Technology 

95 ARC303 Architectural Theory 

97 ARC306 Professional Practice 

99 ARC308 Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics 

101 ARC305 Design Studio | Small and Medium Scale Buildings 

109 ARC304 Design Studio | Final Year Project 

135 DEPARTMENTAL EVENTS 

154 FACULTY & STAFF 

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Level 00 

Year 1 


2014/2015


ARC001 

Introduction to Architecture and Visual Culture 


2014/15 

ARC001 

Introduction to Architecture and Visual 

Culture 

Level 0 (Study Year 1 | semester 1) 

Module credits: 5 

Module coordinator 

María Fullaondo 

Teaching team 

Ciro Márquez 

81 students 

This module is a general outline and overview of various 

forms of graphic expression in art, architecture and design. 

It provides a visual and cultural basis for the understanding, 

analysis and presentation of the relationships between space, 

structure, form and visual composition. It is an introduction 

to the graphic syntax of contemporary architecture in a wide 

range of media, materials and formats. 

Emphasis is placed on collage and digital image as integrating 

graphic media of various forms of expression. 

level 00 

21 

INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURE AND VISUAL CULTURE | ARC001


Typograms by LI Xinran, LIN Huadong, HUANG Yudi, 

ZOU Yina, ZHAI Huihong, YAN Tianhao and WANG Zhe

ARC002 

Architectural Representation and Communication 



ARC002 

Architectural Representation and 

Communication 



Module coordinaton 

Marian Macken 

Teaching team 

Aleksandra Raonic 

Ganna Andrianova 

Theodoros Dounas 

Thomas Fischer 

112 students 

Architectural Representation and Communication 

familiarises students with architectural perceptions and 

expressions. Students are introduced to basic architectural 

communication and its representational languages. 

Key objectives of this Year 1 module are to introduce students 

to design thinking and to basic techniques of architectural 

visualisation, to familiarise students with notable architects 

and their works, and to further enable students to use 

English as a medium to engage with architecture, in parallel 

to the English language modules they take in XJTLU’s 

Language Centre. 

level 00 

23 

ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION AND COMMUNICATION | ARC002


Typograms by HUANG Yifei and BAI Yuxin

Typograms by TU Ouli and YANG Chaohui 

ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION AND COMMUNICATION | ARC002 

25

Level BEng Architecture 

2014/2015 

Year 2


ARC103 

Introduction to Environmental Science 



ARC103 

Introduction to Environmental Science 




Sung-Hugh Hong 

Teaching team 


Austin Williams 


192 students 

Introducing students to the principles of environmental 

science in buildings, this module focusses on the 

quantitative aspect of building science where students learn 

the basic physics essential to the understanding of energy 

and environmental performance of a building. 

Students learn about: the climatic conditions that are relevant 

to building design; the factors that influence human thermal 

comfort; the basic principles of heat transfer mechanism; 

the role of different construction layers in a typical domestic 

wall; window performance; the impact of building fabric on 

energy consumption and thermal comfort; the difference 

between building energy efficiency and energy consumption; 

and fundamentals in daylighting, artificial lighting design and 

room acoustics. 

Upon completion of this module, students are able to 

specify and design basic building walls and carry out relevant 

calculations to deliver building code specified energy 

performance standards, understand how buildings consume 

energy and are able to calculate building energy consumption, 

and design and specify the number and type of lamps 

required to deliver recommended lighting levels in typical 

rooms. 

level 01 

29 

INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE | ARC103


ARC104 

Structures and Materials 



ARC104 

Structures and Materials 




Christiane M. Herr 

Teaching team 

Ciro Márquez 

209 students 

Structures are integral to buildings. They contribute not 

only to functional aspects by supporting loads but also 

form spaces and thus help to create architectural qualities. 

ARC104 provides students with an understanding of basic 

structural principles, basic types of structural systems and 

their relationships to common construction materials. The 

module introduces students to holistic design approaches 

that aim to integrate architectural intentions and structural 

considerations with a view to local construction contexts. 

To support their ways of working in the design studio, 

students are encouraged to learn through designing and 

building experimental models. Structural understanding is 

approached primarily through visual means, case studies and 

applied exercises. Structural and material appropriateness 

are discussed with a focus on architectural design concerns 

and in the context of different regional building cultures. 

The module further encourages inter-disciplinary learning 

and awareness as contemporary architectural practice 

involves and requires teamworking between architects and 

engineers. As part of this module, engineers and architects 

are invited to give guest lectures or guest reviews to enhance 

students’ cross-disciplinary learning and awareness. 

level 01 

STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS | ARC104 

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Drawings by CHU Guo [top] and LI Jiaxu [bottom], models by LI Jialu [top] and LI Xin [bottom] 


ARC107 

History of Western Architecture 



ARC107 

History of Western Architecture 




Anuradha Chatterjee 

Teaching team 


Ciro Márquez 

Edward Farrell 


Jiawen Han 

Maria Fullaondo 

Marian Macken 

Tordis Berstrand 

Yiping Dong 

200 students 

History of Western Architecture gives students a generous 

overview of the vast field of architectural history but with an 

emphasis on inquiring into some topics in depth. It focuses 

on the designerly aspects of these histories so that these 

discussions become useful to design studio education. 

One of the key aims is to strengthen critical thinking and 

an individual stance in the students. The module also 

includes guest lectures, contributing a variety of approaches 

and voices. The module also enables students to develop 

drawing and essay writing skills through class-based 

formative exercises and includes a study trip in which 

students conduct analysis of real buildings in Shanghai. 

This shifts the teaching of architectural history from a history 

of images of buildings only, to real buildings in an urban 

context. 

level 01 

33 

HISTORY OF WESTERN ARCHITECTURE | ARC107


ARC108 

Construction and Materials 



ARC108 

Construction and Materials 





Teaching team 

Ciro Márquez 

192 students 

Construction and Materiality introduces students to the 

basics of construction methods and materiality. Students 

are familiarised with the use of materiality in architectural 

construction and its influence on the design process 

by identifying, researching and analysing examples of 

architecture in which the use of material is significant. 

The module is concerned with constructions in timber, 

concrete, steel, and masonry as well as with constructive 

principles of stairs, ramps, roofs, openings and insulation. 

The focus of this module lies in the tectonics of materials 

and their architectural dimension. 

Through self-selected case studies, students explore the 

texture, structure, haptic, colour and other physical material 

properties of their chosen project, in order to understand the 

significance of materiality in architecture. On the basis of 

these individual studies, students form groups to represent 

their findings as a poster presentation to the public. 

level 01 

35 

CONSTRUCTION AND MATERIALS | ARC108


ARC110 

Humanities and Architecture 



ARC110 

Humanities and Architecture 


Module credits: 2.5 


Andrew Johnston 

192 students 

Humanities and Architecture introduces students to 

architecture and the built environment as a broadly 

humanistic concern and supports their future studio work 

by introducing them to theories and methods on the 

relationship between humans and space. This not only 

gives students more analytical approaches to architecture 

and design, but also emphasises for them the relationship 

between architecture, people and society. 

The aims of ARC110 are to introduce students to approaches 

to architecture, urbanism, space, and the built environment 

that originate in the humanities and social sciences, 

including geography, sociology, anthropology and history. 

The outcomes are that students will systematise a range 

of approaches to thinking about space and the built 

environment, and demonstrate uses of basic methods of 

data collection and analysis based in humanistic disciplines. 

level 01 

37 

HUMANITIES AND ARCHITECTURE | ARC110


Model by SHI Yue

ARC101 

Design Thinking and Articulation 



ARC101 

Design Thinking and Articulation 




Marian Macken 

Teaching team 

Alek Girot 


Bart Mahieu 


Ciro Márquez 

Hanan Bensho 

Harry den Hartog 

Jiawen Han 

Lina Stergiou 

María Fullaondo 

Paul Ebell 


Ting-Ting Dong 


Yiping Dong 

193 students 

This design studio, the students’ first, introduces 

relationships between the conception and representation 

of space through material explorations. The module 

is structured through a series of three integrated and 

cumulative exercises, completed and documented in a 

design book. 

The exercises are undertaken in groups and individually, 

with students working between scales of 1:1, 1:100 and 

1:200. The main media of the module are physical models 

- as a combination of prescribed materials, techniques 

and intentions - drawings, and digital media. The exercises 

encourage ongoing research and use of precedents. 

This work is translated into a design book, which contains 

documentation of the exercises undertaken in ARC101, and 

additional material. It is an edited, designed artefact that 

is a compilation of work, carefully selected from process 

work, models, and research, with accompanying text. It is 

interpretive of narrative and presents works that is analytical, 

emphatically edited, sequential and reflective in tone. 

Model by HAN Yixin 

level 01 

Design Studio 

DESIGN THINKING AND ARTICULATION | ARC101 

39


Exercise 1 by LI Xiaoyi, LI Qinran, HUANG Yusheng and Eirini Koromila

Exercise 1 by SHI Yue, LUO Baoming and ZHANG Tianxing 


41


Exercise 2 by DENG Rui [top right], GAO Yixin [bottom right] and ZHANG Kexin [left]

Exercise 3 by ZHANG Wangyi and ZHANG Tianxing 


43


booklet by HUANG Jiahe

ooklet by CHEN Xiaoyi 

DESIGN THINKING AND ARTICULATION | ARC101 45


Image by LIU Bowei

ARC105 

Small Space Design 



ARC105 

Small Space Design 

Level 1 (Study Year 2) 



Ciro Márquez 

Teaching team 


Bart Mahieu 



Jiawen Han 

Kenneth Yangjie 

Lina Stergliou 

Ma Liang 

Maria Fullaondo 

Marian Macken 

Paul Ebell 




Yiping Dong 

This studio asks students to design a compact house for 

an animal. Each student begins by exploring the animal that 

she or he has been assigned through drawing studies of its 

shape, movements and natural behaviour. 

Based on this analysis, the student interprets the animal 

as a rational character, and this transformation of the beast 

informs a series of drawings of spatial envelopes. 

The outcome of this exercise may be interpreted as 

surroundings and/or surfaces that contain the animal’s 

activities, and the main rationale for the design of a unique 

house for the animal is developed on their basis. 

193 students 

level 01 

Design Studio 

SMALL SPACE DESIGN | ARC105 

47


Project by DENG Rui

Project by QI Chang 


49


Project by LI Qiuzhuo

Project by WANG Mouyu 


51


Model by WANG Miao

ARC102 

Small Scale Architectural Design 



ARC102 

Small Scale Architectural Design 





Teaching team 

Antonio Berton 

Bart Mahieu 


Hanan Bensho 

Jiawen Han 

Joan Cane 

Justin Johnston 

Li-An Tsien 

Lina Stergiou 

Liang Ma 

Marian Macken 



Yiping Dong 

Play is a joyous, spontaneous activity that allows children 

to be imaginative and to reinvent the world accordingly. 

Play involves creativity and exploration and does not have a 

prescribed outcome, it is about the process rather than an 

end product. 

Play is inseparable from freedom and risk. It is an 

enjoyable, open-ended activity, initiated by children and not 

predetermined or managed by adults. 

In this studio, the focus is on the learning aspect of play and 

on play being a major agent and key ingredient in children’s 

healthy development and upbringing. Based on this idea, 

students design a play-space in Suzhou that is to act as 

a space for learning and a new model of architecture for 

children. 

202 students 

level 01 

Design Studio 

SMALL SCALE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN | ARC102 

53


Anthropometric analysis by QUAN Zhuoran

ZHANG MINGJING 

Anthropometric analysis by LI Qiuzhou [top], WANG Mouyu [middle] and ZHANG Mingjing [bottom] 


55


Project by LI Qinran

Project by ZHU Runzi 


57


Project by LI Qiuzhuo

Project by WU Hao 


59


Project by WU Hao 


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Level 02 

Year 3 



The Concept of Energy and Exergy in Thermodynamics 


Advanced Novel Low Exergy Building Technologies for Zero Emission Architecture

ARC201 

Environmental Design and Sustainability 



ARC201 

Environmental Design and Sustainability 





Teaching team 




52 students 

This module engages students with a wider understanding 

of how various environmental factors interact and influence 

building design. It focusses on the qualitative understanding 

of different building environmental design strategies through 

the learning of various sustainable building concepts and 

technologies and how these are applied in architectural design 

through case studies. 

Students learn: the site conditions that are relevant to the 

principle of sustainability; the impact of building layout on 

site and building environmental performance; the causes of 

heat island effect and mitigating building design strategies; 

adaptive thermal comfort and its impact on building energy 

consumption; the principles behind natural ventilation and 

passive solar building design strategies; the impact of window 

design on daylighting and solar gain; the principle of doubleskin 

facades; different green building standards and how they 

compare; and the fundamentals of renewable energy systems. 

Upon completion of this module, students are able to 

form opinions and develop methods of implementing 

environmentally responsive approaches to building design. 

level 02 

65 

ENVIRONMENT DESIGN AND SUSTAINABILITY | ARC201


ARC202 

Structural Design 



ARC 202 

Structural Design 





Teaching team 

Ciro Márquez 

47 students 

In the context of architectural designing, structural design 

describes the conception and articulation of building 

structures that integrate architectural qualities with structural 

requirements. This module provides students with an 

understanding of different types of structural systems and 

their potential to support and enhance given architectural 

intentions. In this module, structural design is approached 

primarily through visual means architecture students can 

easily relate to, focussing on the integration of structural and 

programmatic patterns, scales and proportions in structural 

layouts. 

Throughout this module, lectures are accompanied by applied 

structural design exercises during seminar classes. As part of 

these exercises, students produce a series of structural design 

proposals addressing a variety of structural types and scales. 

In addition, students participate in a bridge design competition 

that requires them to design, build and test bridge models 

for their structural performance. The module also includes 

construction site visits as well as guest lectures and reviews 

by internal and external engineers and architects. This year, we 

cooperated with JAE (Jiang Architects and Engineers) offer a 

professional review of students’ structural design proposals at 

the Shanghai office of the company. 

level 02 

67 

STRUCTURAL DESIGN | ARC202


ARC203 

History of Asian Architecture 



ARC203 

History of Asian Architecture 




Yiping Dong 

Teaching team 



Glen Wash 

52 students 

History of Asian Architecture provides an introduction to 

architectural history from ancient times to the present in 

Asia. The module focusses on the Chinese architectural 

tradition, and includes some additional materials on the wider 

Asian architectural context, such as Indian and Japanese 

architecture. The module briefly introduces the history of 

urban design and key concepts in Asian town planning. The 

history of built architectural form is introduced with selected 

references to associated theoretical discourse, and to 

cultural and philosophical contexts. 

The module uses lectures and readings, case studies and 

field trips to explain key developments in Asian architectural 

and urban history. Essays test individual learning and 

presentational skills, while drawing exercises help students 

to form a visual memory of architecture. An examination 

tests students’ learning and invites students to discuss 

how they understand the historical environment in the 

contemporary world. 

level 02 

69 

HISTORY OF ASIAN ARCHITECTURE | ARC203


ARC206 

Urban Studies 



ARC206 

Urban Studies 





Teaching team 


Glen Wash 


Lina Stergiou 


48 students 

The object of the module is to provide students with a basic 

understanding of urban design including some of the key 

debates, terms, writings, ideas and spatial qualities about 

urban formation. The module concentrates on examples 

from the last one hundred years though to contemporary 

debates. Theories of city development, practical examples and 

problems are addressed to indicate how urban planning and 

architectural decisions are informed. 

The module helps students understand the city as a dynamic 

system, and stimulates their creative engagement with their 

surroundings as well their ability to assess, appraise and 

critique various urban phenomena. 

The module is conducted as a series of lectures on urban/ 

mobility design, design history, urban exemplars, theories and 

methodologies, touching on planning policy in East and West 

for practical applications. The course uses weekly seminars to 

explore these ideas further and to raise students’ awareness 

and cultivate opinions about the nature of cities in Europe, 

America and Asia, the formation and transformation of their 

urban forms and to obtain basic urban design skills. 

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project by CHEN Yu

ARC204 

Small Urban Buildings 



ARC204 

Small Urban Buildings 




Glen Wash 

Teaching team 



Pierre Alain Croset 

49 students 

In this studio, students are tasked with designing a building 

for an emergent company or startup. In recent years, 

emerging industries, such as the technology sector, have 

become dominant vectors of development in China. With 

a focus on innovation, companies like Xiaomi or Dianping 

represent the possibilities techonological development 

has to reach the public. Rather than manufacturing or 

production, these companies are focussed on the creation 

of new products and services, and in order for this activity 

to become more fruitful, they require new working spaces. 

Designing a work space is a chance to redefine work and 

its spatial organisation. For this module students design a 

building for an emergent company and through this project 

explore new possibilities for interior working spaces, and 

the implications, consequences and opportunities of such 

building within an urban context. 

For the Small Urban Buildings studio, two sites are proposed, 

each with their own characteristics, unique opportunities 

and constraints. As a design requirement, the ground level 

should be public access, becoming a semi-public space for 

the city. 

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Design Studio 

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Project by CHEN Yu 

SMALL URBAN BUILDINGS | ARC204 75


Project by CHEN Jiaci

Project by NI Yunqian 


77


Project by LIAO Longtai

Project by ZHANG Yanzhe 


79


Project by JIE You 


81


Image by LIAO Longtai

ARC205 

Design and Building Typology 



ARC205 

Design and Building Typology 




A.Benjamin Spaeth 

Teaching team 

Glen Wash 




49 students 

This studio explores the potential and meaning of integrated 

architectural spaces. From the macro-level of urban scale 

to the micro-level of living spaces, the studio investigates 

how the idea of integration and inclusion can be translated 

into and supported through urban and architecture spaces. 

Integration may span from, but is not limited to, demographic 

to functional, environmental, ethnical, social and certainly 

spatial integration. 

The Design and Building Typology studio familiarises 

students with different types of housing and architectural 

typology as an instrument for architectural and urban design. 

The site is located in the north of Old Suzhou, behind the 

Suzhou Museum and the Humble Administrator’s Garden. 

The site borders on existing housing, commercial and 

industrial developments. 

Different architectural types creating integrated urban 

and architectural spaces are explored through contextual 

analysis, and research on the environmental and the housing 

situation in China. Students develop a masterplan reflecting 

their idea of integrated and inclusive spaces from masterplan 

to detailed explorations at an architectural scale. 

level 02 

Design Studio 

DESIGN AND BUILDING TYPOLOGY | ARC205 

83


Project by DAI Anni 


85


Project by SHEN Yue

Project by ZHANG Yanzhe 


87


Project by LIAO Longtai

Project by SUN Chenxing 


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Level 03 

Year 4 




project by DAI Ronghe & BISSONAUTH Chitraj

ARC301 

Architectural Technology 



ARC301 

Architectural Technology 





Teaching team 


59 students 

Technology contributes to the autonomy of architecture as a 

discipline, defining and shaping the field, and through which 

the performances of the next generation of buildings are 

realised. 

Stemming from a deep understanding of past and current 

buildings’ architectural technology, defined both as outcome 

and process, technology cancels boundaries between digital 

and physical understandings of the world. 

Seen as an agent of change and as an enabler of design 

ideas, technology provides the link between design and 

production, research and development, design exploits 

and social ambitions. Seen through the lens of human 

capital and potential in the built environment, architectural 

technology may erase the boundaries between dream and 

reality, potential and realisation. 

Within this framework, architectural technology should be 

understood as a recovery of human ability rather than a 

constraint, in both processes and output. 

Through in-class seminars and workshops delivered by the 

teaching team, with the active participation of students, 

Architectural Technology explores new materials, methods, 

engineering, technologies, functions and processes. 

This module perceives technology as starting from, and 

progressing beyond, highly ordered views of project 

coordination, to a level where the architect becomes a maker 

of tools and an orchestrator of architectural technology. 

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ARC303 

Architectural Theory 



ARC303 

Architectural Theory 





59 students 

Architectural Theory is the discipline that critically reflects on 

the written discourses in and about architecture. This module 

introduces students to the main concepts of architectural 

theory, and provides a framework for the understanding of 

the ongoing discourses in the field. 

Themes and topics of this class vary from year to year, 

but address historical debates, such as criticism of high 

modernism, the rise of postmodern and post-structural 

theory, critical regionalism and tectonics, as well as 

contemporary discourse, the relation and mutual influence 

of Asian and Western concepts of architecture, and reflect 

areas of interest articulated by students and/or staff in this 

module. 

The main tasks for the students are to write a first paper, 

based on readings, discussion and research, and a second 

paper developing their own position on a core topic of 

architecture. A final written exam stimulates the students to 

rethink what they learned on this course. 

level 03 

ARCHITECTURAL THEORY | ARC303 

95


ARC306 

Professional Practice 



ARC306 

Professional Practice 





59 students 

Professional Practice introduces Level 3 students to the 

management of architectural practice, the role of the 

architects as a professional and the role of the architect in the 

construction industry and the built environments of China 

and the West. It provides students with background into the 

management of professional practices, the management of 

design projects and design teams, and the management of 

staff. It sets out the duties and responsibilities of architects 

to clients, staff and others. 

Students develop an awareness of how architecture practices 

operate. They understand how buildings are designed and 

built in the context of architectural and professional best 

practice and the framework of the construction industry 

within which it operates. Building users’ needs, legislation 

and performance standards all form part of the learning 

process. 

The module introduces students to forms of procurement 

and contract types and sets out the role architects plays in 

dealing with contractual matters. An understanding of health 

and safety requirements both at design and construction 

stages is also introduced. Students are introduced to the 

organisations, regulations and procedures for negotiating 

architectural designs, land law, development control, and 

building control. Students develop an understand of cost 

control mechanism and an awareness and understanding of 

the principle of whole life costing. 

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97


ARC308 

Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics 



ARC308 

Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics 

Level 3 (Study Year 4 | semester 2 




Teaching team 


59 students 

Philisophy of Art Aesthetics provides an introduction to the 

wider cultural framework that forms the basis for architecture 

and architectural design. It introduces critical reflections at 

the border of architectural discourse, from both East and 

West, in order to facilitate a better understanding of cultural 

contexts and their influence on positions and expressions in 

the fine arts and architecture. 

This year’s course responds to the theme ‘Art, Architecture 

and the Poetry of Life: Thinking Limits without Limitations’ 

with a specifically designed series of lectures and seminars, 

addressing notions of the poetic in art, design and 

architecture. 

Philosophical reflections, responding to the theme in an 

explicit or implicit way, are given as reading assignments and 

discussed in the seminars in relation to selected artworks, 

such as paintings, installations, and street art, as well as to 

films, poetry and other forms of creative writing, but also 

to works generally categorised as design. An excursion 

to the Social Factory exhibition at the Shanghai Biennale 

offered an additional opportunity for reflection particularly on 

contemporary positions. 

Students demonstrate their understanding of how 

philosophy, art, and architecture mutually influence each 

other in short coursework exercises related to the seminar 

discussions, as well as an essay, which offers an optional 

link to the Final Year Project studio project. 

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Image by GUO Yuqi

ARC305 

Small and Medium Scale Buildings 



ARC305 

Small and Medium Scale Buildings 





Teaching team 



Nancy Diniz 


59 students 

In China, extraordinary economic development has gone 

hand-in-hand with a boom in urbanisation that is reshaping 

both the physical environment as well as its cultural fabric. 

The distinction between the city and the countryside has 

become blurred and in fast developing regions, such as 

Suzhou prefecture, nature is being absorbed by the city. 

The design proposal for the Small and Medium Scale 

Buildings studio focusses on the interplay of the natural 

and the artificial – the wetland landscape, the inner and 

outer lake shores versus the artificiality of newly proposed 

buildings and constructions. New projects integrate with the 

landscape, providing public outdoor facilities thus generating 

an integral poetic landscape for a unique waterfront area. 

Proposing the Yangcheng Lake Peninsula as the site for 

the studio necessitated students to take landscape and 

environment into account, while also giving them the 

opportunity to select one out of five parallel briefs. Each of 

these with different programmatic requirements and taught 

by a different tutor. 

level 03 

Design Studio 

SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE BUILDINGS | ARC305 

101


Project by DAI Ronghe

Project by ZHANG Jiayun 


103


Project by CUI Can

Project by ZHOU Zhixun 


105


Project by YANG Tao

Project by GU Mengxue 


107


Project by ZHAO Yu

ARC304 

Final Year Project 



ARC304 

Final Year Project Studio 





Teaching team 






63 students 

The Final Year Project Studio is the last studio module in the 

course of the BEng Architecture programme at XJTLU. 

Following the University’s regulations for Final Year Projects 

the framework of this final studio ensures a diversity of 

approaches allowing students greater freedom in defining 

their method of learning and their access to architectural 

design. 

The framework of the Final Year Project Studio module is set 

to ensure a diversity of approaches to architectural design, 

allowing for parallel briefs defined to a greater extent by 

students themselves. The six briefs written for this year’s 

final year studio respond in various ways to the challenges 

that architecture is confronted with in China and beyond. 

They open a conversation on architecture that is to be 

reframed and redefined by the students in the course of 

their research and design process. 

The six individual briefs require students to design buildings 

that respond to specific urban and socio-cultural conditions. 

They require students to pay focussed attention to social 

values and the centricity of human needs and desires. 

On the basis of their proposal and in connection to a 

coherent design process, students need to demonstrate 

their understanding of architecture as informed by interdependent 

cultural, historical, technological and contextual 

issues. 

The studio module actively encourages students to embrace 

a culture of risk and experimentation, but at the same time 

requires them to fully resolve their projects, responding to 

human, technical and environmental needs. 

project by WANG Siyao 

level 

03 

Design Studio 

FINAL YEAR PROJECT | ARC304 

109


Project by WANG Siyao

ARC304 

At the Grand Canal 



ARC304 



Studio 


In the past, China’s Grand Canal signified the future and a 

prosperous outlook for many cities located alongside its 

banks. The Grand Canal was the most important connection 

between Beijing in the north and Hangzhou in the south. 

Today, one could say, the Grand Canal is history, although it 

was granted World Heritage status by Unesco in 2015. 

In this module, in an area dedicated to new development in 

the city of Huai’an students look into the past and future, 

and into the possibilities for architecture to desire and to 

deny, to connect and to preserve, and to promise. 

Students research the history and present of Huai’an, and 

have the opportunity to critically engage with the concepts 

under which new city developments are currently promoted. 

They may choose to rethink and to redefine the sustainable, 

eco, green, smart, digital, intelligent or resilient city, or 

create entirely new city concepts in relation to the memory 

and history of Huai’an. Students create visions for a future 

city. 

The Final Year Project brief for At the Grand Canal is linked to a 

research project currently undertaken in Huai’an by XJTLU’s 

Research Institute for Urbanisation. The project is supported 

by the city of Huai’an and maps and data are provided by 

the local planning office. Students who participate in this 

studio have the opportunity to join two trips to Huai’an with 

the Research Institute to meet and discuss plans with city 

officials, as well as the researchers involved in the project 

from XJTLU’s Departments of Architecture, Urban Design, 

Environmental Science, Business, Computer Science, and 

Culture and Communication. 

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Design Studio 

FINAL YEAR PROJECT | ARC304


Project by WANG Siyao 


113


Project by NAN Fang

ARC304 

Redesigning the Village 



ARC304 



Studio 


The rush of migration in recent decades from the country 

to the city in China is one of the largest migrations in all 

of human history. It has left an untold number of Chinese 

villages and towns under-populated and underdeveloped. 

Populations in these villages and towns have changed in 

many ways due to migration, most commonly working-age 

parents have moved, leaving behind the old and the young. 

In the last few years government entities, planners, architects, 

and communities have begun to ask questions concerning 

the future of these villages and towns in China, and have 

come to appreciate the potential of the built environment 

heritage remaining, and the qualities of intangible heritage 

that renewed development could reinvigorate. 

In thi Final Year Project studio students design architectural 

projects for one of two historic rural villages on Tai Lake, 

just to the west of the city of Suzhou. One of these villages 

is a historic centre of Buddha sculpture making, the other 

a historic agricultural village of specialty land and water 

production. 

These sites are rural villages with significant local industries 

that are undervalued or in decline. Both sites have been 

significantly depopulated and feature historic industrial, 

commercial, and residential structures classified in their 

significance from high-grade to lower-grade in the Chinese 

system. 

In addition to working with XJTLU staff, students will work 

with assistance from planners and architects from CSIAD 

(China Suzhou Institute of Architectural Design) who are 

actively working in these villages. 

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Design Studio 

FINAL YEAR PROJECT | ARC304 115


Project by WEI Liu 


117


Project by LU Yang

ARC304 

Surf and Community Center 



ARC304 



Studio 


Australia is well known for its surf culture. Due to the 

country’s main settlements being located along coastal 

areas, about 85 percent of the population has access 

within less than an hour’s drive to the coast. Bells Beach is 

Australia’s “capital of the beaches” located close to Torquay, 

Victoria. Here, in the 1960s, surf fanatics started optimising 

and manufacturing surfboards. 

A new Surf and Community Centre-design at Torquay should 

be developed at a very prominent location near to the 

centre of town and directly overlooking Zeally Bay. This lively 

location is the project site for the Final Year Project. Students 

are asked to design for this location a building facilitating 

the sharing of the surfing culture with visitors directly at the 

beach. 

In its ambition, the architectural project contributes to the 

further development of Torquay as the capital of beaches 

in Australia while being able to host both surf and nonsurf 

related events. The new community centre should 

host a museum concerned with surf culture, serving as a 

community centre where surfers can meet and exchange 

their experiences while linking the town with the ocean. 

level 03 

Design Studio 


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Project by ZHU Haoruo

ARC304 

Lifelong Learning 



ARC304 



Studio 


In an era of rapid technical, economical, and social change, 

education has become a lifelong effort. Finding ways to 

acquire necessary, as well as desirable, skills has become 

crucial for all. Yet the high-speed development of China 

poses an extra challenge, confronting poorly educated 

farmers, workers and migrants with the complex reality of 

an increasingly globalised civilization. 

This Final Year Project is about a new type building that 

addresses learning needs of adults located in Suzhou 

Industrial Park. The Lifelong Learning building should 

especially invite the underprivileged, the farmers and migrant 

workers, offering them a variety of ways to experience 

learning and teaching. 

In order to become attractive to adults, the look of the 

building needs to be decidedly distinct from typical school 

architecture in Suzhou Industrial Park. The Lifelong Learning 

building should be considered a prototype of future 

structures, conceived to support adult education in Suzhou 

Industrial Park and that could become a model for modern 

China. 

level 03 

Design Studio 



Project by SUN Xueyi

ARC304 

2050 Suzhou Museum 



ARC304 



Studio 


Alienation as an identity can be a very difficult situation. 

In China immutable identities govern everything, from the 

relationship of inside to outside, to the question of how 

buildings should be orientated, to questions of belonging. 

This Final Year Project asks how this identity, taking the case 

of the city of Suzhou, can be expressed architectonically in 

the form of a museum. The studio investigates and explores 

the influences of development and the contributions that 

different groups within the city’s population have made to 

Suzhou and Suzhou Industrial Park, from the immigrant 

workers without ‘hukou’ to the expats working in the high 

intensity knowledge economy of SIP. 

The design for the Suzhou Museum 2050 celebrates the 

contributions that ‘foreigners’ have made to the city, thereby 

exploring how these identities will or will not survive in 

2050, and how the effects of the opening up of the city to 

the world will be manifested in 2050. 

The museum should give space for alternative futures 

for Suzhou and SIP, for example from light industry to an 

animation services industry, from a second sector productive 

capacity to a knowledge economy, while portraying Suzhou’s 

international qualities and importance in the world. 

level 03 

Design Studio 


Called Housing Diversity, the project is an experiment 

in integrating the diverse residents living in Shanghai 

into one tower. 

It is a microcosm of Shanghai: migrants from across 

China come to the tower to spend their lives, turning 

from strangers into acquaintances. The sense of 

community which is lost in the indifferent culture of 

the big city could be transformed into a performance of 

diverse lifestyles. 


Project by ZHOU Zhixun

ARC304 

Concrete Futures 



ARC304 



Studio 


Since the beginning of the economic boom, (reinforced) 

concrete has dominated Chinese architecture like no other 

material. Until today, however, the use of concrete in China 

is remarkable more for the level of scale than for the level 

of architectural quality. Most buildings that employ concrete 

as their main material do not engage with their materiality 

as part of their architectural design, instead, concrete 

structures have become characteristic of unimaginative and 

architecturally lacking buildings. 

In this Final Year Project students address the type of the 

medium rise tower that is common throughout China. 

The brief calls for the design of a mixed-use 100m tall 

tower comprising 25 floors, of which three floors are 

selected for detailed development. Design proposals for 

the tower explore the mutual relationships of typologic, 

spatial, structural, technical and programmatic aspects and 

functional requirements within the broad context of the 

material concrete and a local Chinese setting. 

For this project, students have a choice of two sites. The 

first site is located in Shanghai and challenges students to 

address issues of density, traditional living and modernisation 

of Chinese society and culture. The second site is located 

in the new CBD of Suzhou Industrial Park, and challenges 

students to apply technological exploration to issues of 

identity, economy and Chinese modernity. 

level 03 

Design Studio 


The Collage Tower is a building in which 

outdoor activities that usually happen on 

ground level are ‘collaged’ into a high rise 

building. 

In the Collage Tower, a space hierarchy 

can be discovered. Solid concrete walls 

are comnbined with other materials like 

glass and steel, to show interior public and 

private spaces. 


Project by LI Yirong

A grid on the ground extends into the 

vertical space. The three-dimensional grid 

becomes a framework for the building. In 

order to allow fluid and dynamic patterns 

to arise, two grids are overlapped to create 

more possibilities. 

The pattern of the grid on each floor seems 

random, but is based on an underlying logic 

with the shift of each floor following the 

curved columns thus forming a wavering 

and visually elegant shape. 

Project by PAN Jialin 


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The New Shanghai Habitat project deals with 

Shanghai losing a large part of its character and 

cultural heritage. The proposed project addresses 

this situation by reinterpreting and adapting the 

existing ‘lilong’ settlements in a vertical way. 

Project by BISSOONAUTH Chitraj 

The new building acts as a link between the 

juxtaposed high-rise and low-rise urban fabric. It 

maintains, reinterpretes and further develops the 

essence of the ‘lilong’ settlement. 


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Project by CUI Can 



Project by CUI Can 


Departmental Events 



In October 2014, the Department organised an 

exhibition of work from the BEng Architecture 

programme for the visit of the Royal Institute of 

British Architects (RIBA) Validation Board. In February 

2015, the BEng Architecture programme became the 

first programme of its kind at a Chinese university 

to receive international validation by RIBA, thus 

demonstrating XJTLU’s commitment to proving 

world-class, internationally recognised education to 

students from China and abroad. 

RIBA Validation for the BEng 

With the recent announcement of the validation for 

the BEng, RIBA praised the University for developing 

an alternative model for Chinese architecture 

education. The RIBA Board specifically commended 

the Department and staff body on creating a 

distinctive environment in which students learn 

from an international and Chinese context, with an 

ambition to produce a new type of graduate, with 

an emphasis on human-centred architecture, for the 

emerging global context. 

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The President of the Royal Institute of British 

Architects (RIBA), Stephen Hodder, visited XJTLU’s 

Department of Architecture in late spring 2015. 

Students and staff enjoyed discussing with him work 

in progress in the studios. 

Stephen Hodder 

Visit of the RIBA President 

He gave an interview to Austin Williams for the 

Master Planning The Future magazine in which he 

discussed the benefits of the recent RIBA validation 

and talked about the opportunities arising from 

studying in China and the major challenges ahead. 

Stephen Hodder also visited the exhibition that had 

been set up for the RIBA Board visit several months 

earlier. 

The interview is available as a video online on the 

MPTF website 

www.masterplanningthefuture.org/?p=3291. 



In October 2014 a group of 51 Year 3 students, 

including a number of exchange students from the 

University of Liverpool and six members of academic 

staff, organised a six-day study trip through Tianjin 

and parts of Hebei province. 

Highlights of the trip included visits to Dule Temple, 

the East Qing dynasty royal tombs, many of the 

former international concession areas in Tianjin, 

Tianjin Library and Tianjin Eco-city. 

Tianjin Field Trip 

The study trip, led by Dr Yiping Dong from the 

Department of Architecture, was designed to 

give students a unique educational experience by 

providing opportunities to visit historic buildings as 

well as contemporary architecture and urban design 

by Chinese and foreign architects. 

The group was also fortunate to be given lectures 

by two of the foremost professors on architectural 

history from Tianjin University. 

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Guangzhou Shenzhen Field Trip 

The Department’s visit to Guangzhou and Shenzhen 

in April 2015 offered students from Years 2, 3 and 

4 the chance to meet staff from local architectural 

practices and visit contemporary buildings designed 

by both well-known international architects and 

internationally recognised Chinese architects. 

The students explored the modernisation of these 

two Chinese cities thus experiencing the creative 

tension between tradition and innovation. 

The group visited the offices of O-Office, URBANUS, 

and Positioning Architecture, where architects gave 

lectures about their work and projects. 

Additionally, the group visited buildings including 

the Urban Tulou and Nanshan District Marriage 

Registration Office (designed by URBANUS), Vanke 

Headquarters in Shenzhen (by Stephen Holl), 

Guangzhou Opera House (by Zaha Hadid) and the 

Shenzhen Airport (by Massimiliano Fuksas). 


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Shanghai Power Station of Art 

In March 2015 59 Year 4 students, and four staff 

members, visited the 10th Shanghai Biennale of Art 

entitled ‘Social Factory’. The excursion was organised 

in conjunction with the ARC308 Philosophy of Art 

and Aesthetics module. 

Under the headline ‘Social Factory’ the Biennale 

explored a range of questions that are of relevance 

to architecture and art thus exploring the relationship 


between the social and the fictive in the construction 

and re-construction of society and the impact of 

history and technology on subjectification today. 

The visit to the Shanghai Biennale allowed students 

to experience works by some of the most prominent 

contemporary artists. They gained new viewpoints 

on architecture, its relation to the social, as well as to 

art and aesthetics. 

DEPARTMENTAL EVENTS 2014-15

The departmental magazine, Masterplanning the 

Future (MPTF) has had a significant impact within 

and outside the University. It is the only independent 

online architecture magazine in China, written in 

English that aims to bring Chinese architecture to an 

international audience. 

During the 2014-15 academic year, as well as writing, 

editing and producing the magazine, students visited 

the top of the Shanghai Tower with its chief architect 

before the tower opened to the public, met Thomas 

Heatherwick at the exhibition launch of his Asia tour, 

attended the VIP press opening of Zaha Hadid’s 

Since its inception, MPTF has organised the 

Department’s speakers programme with local and 

international visiting architects. Sudents have used 

the opportunity to interview all speakers and post 

resulting articles, which has been a way to network 

with architects and build professional relationships 

for potential internships. 

We are now moving into film, recording interviews 

and planning a short documentary. We will also 

launch round-table, filmed discussions where 

students debate issues facing China. 

MasterPlanning The Future 

Soho office building in Shanghai, and continued the 

tradition of interviewing the visiting president of the 

RIBA. 

Many of these events produced journalistic “firsts”. 

For example, one student met Wang Shu to discuss a 

project that had not yet been covered by the world’s 

press, while another interviewed Lin Ji, the deputy 

chief planner of Beijing, known as the man who 

designed 100 Chinese cities. 

This magazine is a great way to enhance students’ 

critical skills and to develop good journalistic and 

English-speaking skills. We hold regular meetings 

to promote, train, engage, take questions and help 

students in this endeavour. By the end of 2015-16 

we hope to produce an anniversary hard copy of the 

magazine. 

We are always looking for new editorial members! 

www.masterplanningthefuture.org/ 


Freestyle Bridge Competition 

The Freestyle Bridge Competition forms part of 

the Module ARC202 Structural Design. In this 

competition, students learn to employ structural 

knowledge in their design of a variety of bridge types. 

Based on their free choice of materials and structural 

types, students design and build lightweight bridge 

models spanning a gap of 1.07m and capable of 

sustaining a point load of 4.5kg. 

The aesthetic judgement is made by a panel of four 

invited guest judges, of which two are members of 

staff of the Department of Architecture, and two are 

members of the Department of Civil Engineering. 

While similar model building exercises are a wellestablished 

part of innovative structural design 

teaching, the evaluation methods integrating 

architectural and engineering concerns developed for 

this competition present a new development of this 

teaching approach. 


IDEERS Earthquake-Safe Competition 

Continuing Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University’s 

success at previous years’ events, eight Year 3 

students from the Department of Architecture, 

working in two teams, participated in the International 

Annual Earthquake Safety Design Competition 

IDEERS 2014 in Taipei, Taiwan. Two teams spent two 

months during the summer continuously improving 

the earthquake resistance of their structures as well 

as their craftsmanship. The contributions of XJTLU 

were awarded with a First Prize for Architectural (Art) 

Design, a First Prize for Engineering Design, a First 

Prize for Best Poster Presentation, an Earthquake 

Safety Certificate, and two runner-up positions of the 

audience’s popular vote, amongst 42 international 

teams competing in the undergraduate category. 

Preparations for the competition were supported 

by the XJTLU Department of Civil Engineering, who 

made the CE shaking table available for model testing 

throughout the summer. 


Vertical Architecture Workshop 

In March 2015, an international design workshop open 

to all students on the BEng Architecture programme 

took place. The students explored and speculated 

on highly mobile cities as pioneering settlements to 

facilitate urbanisation and city development. Guest 

students and their professor Joachim Kieferle, from 

the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, 

Germany, added an intercultural dimension to the 

second semester workshop. 

The Vertical Architecture Workshop was concerned 

with the initial colonisation of fallow land to facilitate 

permanent urban development. 

The starting point of the workshop was an 

introduction by Theodoros Dounas and Dr Benjamin 

Spaeth, Associate Professors in the Department, 

to innovative computational design methods to 

facilitate computational design approaches to the 

given design task. 


Change by Design Workshop | Capetown 

For two weeks during April 2015, 10 Level 2 

students, accompanied by Yiping Dong and Marian 

Macken, joined an international participatory design 

workshop in Cape Town, South Africa. The workshop 

was organised by Change By Design, an initiative 

of Architecture Sans Frontières-UK, a non-profit 

organisation that aims to make community and 

international development issues integral to the 

practice and teaching of architecture. 

Concentrating on the issue of urban regeneration in 

the inner-city suburb of Woodstock, the workshop 

aimed to be a catalyst for Development Action Group 

(DAG), a local NGO, to continue their ongoing work 

in this area. The workshop’s aim was to use design 

thinking to concentrate on social inequality and 

social justice, using space as a tool and facilitator to 

promote these discussions. 


International Workshop Guangzhou 

In December 2015, 14 students from the Department 

of Architecture and Professors Andrew Johnston and 

Lina Stergiou took part in a seven-day international 

workshop organised by, and held at, the Department 

of Architecture, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. 

The workshop included an opening ceremony, a 

public exhibition and a presentation of students’ 

work. 

The workshop examined Shipai village in Guangzhou 

where vast changes have decisively and unexpectedly 

occurred since the post-1960s period. Major 

urbanised areas in Asia share similar processes and 

comparable patterns of urbanisation. 

Students’ works was exhibited in the E9 exhibition 

hall, Redtory Art & Design Factory in Guangzhou. 



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朱鹏霖 WANG HE 汪赫 LIU ZHIPENG 刘志鹏 JIANG YUANYUAN 蒋媛媛 PU YAO 濮垚 

XU BINGJIE 许冰捷 GAO ZHUOZHOU 高倬州 QIAO SHANTONG 乔善通 ZHAO JINGWEI 赵精卫 

XIONG YUJIE 熊禹洁 FANG XINTONG 方心童 BAI YUE 拜月 LIU SIYING 刘思颖 

ZHAO SHUYU 赵书毓 GU MENGXUE 谷梦雪 LI YANG 李扬 CHEN CHEN 陈宸 ZHAO QING 赵青 

ZHANG JIAYUN 张佳赟 SUN XUEYI 孙雪怡 MENG CHANG 孟畅 LI YANTONG 李妍潼 

GUO DONGYUE 郭东玥 CHEN YIXIN 陈奕欣 ZHOU ZHIXUN 周之洵 PAN JIALIN 潘佳霖 

SHEN WENSHAN 沈文杉 XIA JIAHUI 夏嘉桧 LI JINYU 黎金宇 HOU XIAOCHEN 侯晓晨 GUO YUQI 

锅瑀琪 DAI RONGHE 戴荣和 WANG ZILONG 王子珑 CHEN JINGNAN 陈静男 LIU YUSHU 刘俣淑 

SHEN TIANYE 沈天烨 SHI BINYU 史彬玉 DUAN YAWEN 段雅文 YANG ZHE 羊哲 CHEN SIBEI 

陈思蓓 ZHANG SIYAO 张思遥 ZHANG ZIRUI 张紫瑞 YE HUANAN 叶化楠 CHEN JIANZHAO 

陈剑钊 ZHU HAORUO 朱昊若 MAO YUYANG 毛宇阳 JIANG ZHENHAO 蒋桢昊 LEI YUJIA 雷雨佳 

DUAN JIYU 段继宇 ZHONG XINYUE 钟欣越 WANG TIANHE 王天禾 WANG SIYAO 王思瑶 

LIU LIUQING 刘柳青 ZHANG RONGFENG 张榕峰 XIONG HENAN 熊赫男 YAO RONG 姚蓉 

NAN FANG 南方 TANG CHAO 汤超 YANG TAO 杨涛 LI CHANGLONG 李昌龙 WEI LIU 魏柳 

ZHAO LUYING 赵璐滢 LI SHUAI 李帅 CAI XINTING 蔡欣婷 CUI CAN 崔璨 LI YUCHEN 李玉辰 

WANG XIAOYU 王肖瑜 LI YIRONG 李依融 QIAN YU 钱逾 ZHANG WEN 张雯 ZHU QIANYUN 

朱倩云 LIN SUMIN 林苏闽 JI YUNXIAO 计云潇 YANG TIANYUAN 杨天远 CHEN WEIWEI 陈未未 

ZHANG YIFENG 张逸峰 WEI NANXUAN 魏楠轩 XIA BO 夏博 XIA YU 夏禹 XU YINGSHI 徐应时 

LU YANG 陆阳 ZHOU SIYI 周思怡 SU TIANYU 苏天宇 ZHANG YUSHU 张毓书 LI JIEHAN 

李洁涵 GUO ZIFENG 郭子锋 YU MENGFEI 余梦菲 ZHENG CHENCHEN 郑宸辰 

TANG JIALIN 汤佳林 GHESHAV RAMPERSAD ZABIHI MARYAM GONG RUOCHEN 巩若晨 

YIN TAO 尹陶 CHEN YU 陈雨 YOU JIE 游洁 JIN TIAN 金恬 CHEN JIAMIAO 陈佳苗 

SHEN YUE 沈越 CHEN TIANCHI 陈天驰 DAI ANNI 戴安妮 CUI TIANQI 崔天琦 ZHU YI 朱奕 

NI YUNQIAN 倪韻倩 ZHANG CUICHENG 张璀宬 WANG HUIYU 王辉玉 ZHOU XIAJING 周夏菁 

CHEN LINGLING 陈灵铃 ZHU RUOYI 朱若旖 HAN DI 韩荻 YOU XINZHU 由馨竹 

YANG YUXUN 杨雨洵 ZHANG YUE 张越 YIN KAIFENG 尹凯丰 ZHU RUI 朱锐 CHEN JIACI 陈嘉词 

ZHOU BIQIAO 周碧峤 JIA YIPING 贾易平 ZHENG YIFEI 郑逸飞 XIE MINGHUAN 谢明焕 

ZHAN XING 詹行 ZHAO ZHE 赵哲 QIAN CHENG 钱程 LI YANPEI 李彦霈 ZHANG MINGJING 

张明静 WEI LU 卫璐 SHI PU 石璞 LIU ZIHAN 刘子涵 SUN CHENXING 孙晨星 LI YUKUN 

李雨昆 FANG DIANJUN 方典钧 SUN QIUJIE 孙秋洁 ZHOU XIYUAN 周惜缘 GONG JIAMING 

巩佳鸣 ZHANG HUANQI 张欢奇 HAN YUXI 韩雨希 LI JIAYI 李佳忆 LU JIACHENG 陆嘉诚 

YANG ZHENYUAN 杨振源 XING YULAN 邢玉兰 ZHANG YANZHE 张艳喆 LIAO LONGTAI 

廖隆泰 WANG YICHU 王一出 LI ZHAOHAN 李兆晗 BIAN ZHIFAN 卞之凡 SUN FENGZHU 孙凤翥 

WANG WEIPING 王蔚屏 SUN XIAO 孙潇 BISSOONAUTH CHITRAJ LINARDI FELIX 

LIU YUTIAN 刘羽田 JIN ZHIQIAN 金志骞 LI SHENG 李晟 HUANG YUSHENG 

黄宇声 JIN HUAYU 金华玉 LUO BAOMING 罗宝明 ZHANG TIANXING 张天星 

LI XIAOYI 李小易 SHI YUE 石悦 ZHANG WANYI 张琬仪 WANG DANYANG 王丹旸 

SONG ZENING 宋泽宁 LI QINRAN 李沁然 DU YINING 杜亦宁 CHEN YUQI 陈昱琦 

ZHU MINGKE 朱明珂 FENG YUAN 冯院 ZHANG KEXIN 张可心 ZHOU XIAOCHEN 

周啸尘 WANG JIXUAN 王骥玄 LI ZIYU 李子昱 FENG LU 冯璐 BAI WENLIN 白雯霖 

WANG YUCHEN 王宇晨 WANG SIYU 王思宇 JIANG HAO 姜浩 LI HAOXUAN 李浩轩 

WANG XIANGLONG 王湘龙 SHI JUN 师珺 ZHANG ZHAO 张钊 MA YUNJIA 马韵佳 


HUANG SHIQI 黄诗琪 LU MENGHAN 鲁梦晗 ZHU RUNZI 朱润资 ZHU YUT- 

ING 朱雨婷 SHEN LIYUAN 沈立元 HUANG LIHAN 黄丽涵 WANG AOLI 

王傲立 LI XIANG 李想 ZHOU BENYANG 周奔阳 LI JIALU 李佳璐 HUANG WEILIN 黄炜麟 

WANG JIEYU 王婕妤 SUN GUANGYU 孙光雨 YOU JIAYI 尤珈仪 XU YICHEN 许漪琛 

ZHANG WENJING 章雯菁 TANG AO 唐翱 ZHANG YIPING 章一平 YANG CHENG 杨成 

CHEN XIAOYI 陈晓奕 TANG LANKE 唐蓝珂 DENG YUSHENG 邓禹晟 QI WENHUI 

祁文荟 XU XIAORONG 徐笑容 YANG JIAYING 杨嘉颖 CHEN YUKUN 陈玉坤 

ZHOU RUIDI 周睿迪 LI YAO 李尧 MIAO YUWEI 缪钰玮 MIAO KE 缪可 

WU WENQI 吴文琦 SU WENJIA 苏文嘉 LU YUFAN 卢雨凡 SHEN JIALIANG 沈佳梁 

WANG XIAOYU 王晓钰 ZHANG HAOTIAN 张昊天 DING XIAO 丁笑 GUO YU 郭雨 

YAO ZHEJUN 姚哲君 ZHANG RAN 张然 ZENG JIACHENG 曾嘉诚 LV JIANI 吕嘉妮 

KUANG WEI 况蔚 CHU YIYANG 储祎洋 SHAO FUWEI 邵富伟 HUANG JIARUI 黄佳蕊 TAO XUEQI 

陶雪琪 CAO RUICHEN 曹瑞晨 GU PENGYUAN 顾鹏远 WANG MIAO 王淼 ZHAO YUANXIN 

赵元新 ZHAI SIQI 翟斯琦 ZHANG XU 张旭 WANG HAN 王涵 ZHOU ZHUOYI 

周倬屹 ZENG RUOXIAO 曾若逍 YANG JINRUN 杨金润 QI CHANG 戚畅 

YANG SHAN 杨珊 CHENG JIE 程婕 ZHANG XIAORAN 张笑然 TIAN 

CONG 田聪 SHEN XIAOYA 沈筱雅 LI XIAOJIE 李晓杰 LIU JIANQIU 刘涧秋 

ZHU JIRUI 朱吉锐 HUANG JIALU 黄嘉璐 XIE QING 谢庆 LU JIALING 陆家羚 LI JIAXU 李家旭 

HUANG JUNTAO 黄骏涛 TANG MINGYANG 唐名扬 CHEN ZHAOYUAN 陈昭元 

ZOU WEI 邹伟 ZHANG WEN 张雯 ZHOU LINCHENG 周麟丞 GONG CHENGYING 

龚澄莹 MEI YIXUAN 梅艺璇 LI SHAOKANG 李少康 QUAN ZHUORAN 全倬冉 

QIAN JIANGLIN 钱江琳 FAN YISU 范一粟 ZHOU YINGYANG 周颖扬 WANG WEIWEI 王惟惟 

LIN LUQIAN 林璐芊 CHEN XIANGYU 陈祥语 CHENG ZIYU 程子昱 ZHANG RUIHUI 张瑞汇 

QIAN SHIYU 钱时宇 ZHONG JINYU 钟金钰 DENG RUI 邓睿 LIU XIAOZHI 刘潇之 

DU WENXI 杜雯汐 ZHANG JIAQI 张家启 SUN AIWEI 孙艾维 ZHAO BOFAN 赵勃帆 

WANG NING 汪宁 LIU BOWEI 刘博巍 WANG MOUYU 王谋雨 WEI ZHENG 魏铮 ZHU SHUYI 朱舒旖 

YANG BINGYA 杨冰雅 LI MENGYING 李梦颖 YU WEIJIE 余蔚洁 CHEN XUEQI 陈雪琦 

PENG YU 彭雨 ZHENG XIN 郑昕 QIU YAJUN 邱雅君 YANG LIUQING 

杨柳青 GAO YIXIN 高一心 SUI YINGDA 隋英达 LI XINZHE 李新哲 KANG WENZHAO 康文钊 

ZHAO JIAOYUE 赵皎月 HU SHIXIN 胡世欣 LI QIUZHUO 李秋卓 ZHU HUAJIAN 朱华健 

SHAO YICONG 邵一聪 CHENG SIJIA 程思嘉 LIU XIN 刘鑫 GUO WANGYU 郭望雨 

HE YAN 贺琰 DU HANXI 杜涵茜 CHENG ZHIHANG 成知航 JIA LINYE 贾林烨 

ZHANG CHENKE 张晨珂 GUO CHU 郭楚 WANG XIAOYUAN 王小元 ZOU PEIZHENG 

邹佩铮 ZHANG YINGQI 张英琦 LI YIJIA 李亦嘉 HAN YANBIN 韩艳彬 WU HAO 吴昊 

YANG SHIHAO 杨世豪 WANG XUAN 王璇 WANG SHUANGYI 王爽懿 LI XIN 李鑫 

HU NA 胡娜 LI JINYANG 李锦洋 SHI HAOYU 石浩宇 HAN YIXIN 韩铱欣 WEI ZHUO 

魏卓 YANG NINGHENG 杨宁恒 ZHANG JINQIAO 张近桥 

WANG YIJIN 王艺瑾 QIN YUANYUAN 秦源苑 TANG YIWEN 汤逸文 LIN SHU-NUNG 

林书侬 KHINE KHIN KISTAMAH RYAN ANTHONY CINDY 张欣妮 TEN STANISLAV RIGON 

MARCUS SAMUELSSON LINUS TAIURSKII ANTON SEEWOO NIKHI 

KOROMILA EIRINI BRUCE DANIEL THOMAS GOLDSMITH GEORGE JOHN 

OTTO HILL ADAM MICHAEL LEE JONATHON CHEN SING OLDHAM 

DAVID TIMOTHY PATTISON WILLIAM ADAM KORAM SAMUEL SAKYI 

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Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University 

Academic staff 

Pierre Alain Croset, Head of Department 

Dipl. Arch., Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de 

Lausanne (Switzerland) 

Registered Architect (CH and IT) 


PhD, Odessa State Academy of Construction 

and Architecture (UA) 

MArch, Odessa State Academy of 

Construction and Architecture (UA) 

BArch, Odessa State Academy of 

Construction and Architecture (UA) 


Ph.D., in Architecture, University of Kent (UK) 

M.Sc, Architectural History, The Bartlett 

School of Architecture, UCL (UK) 

M.Arch, Architecture, The Royal Danish 

Academy of Fine Arts (DK) 

Anuradha Chatterjee (until 02/2015) 

Phd, University of New South Wales (AUS) 

MArch, University of New South Wales (AUS) 

Dipl Arch, TVB School of Habitat Studies, 

New Delhi (IN) 

Bert de Muynck 

M.Arch, Architectural Engineering, Catholic 

University of Leuven, Belgium. Faculty of 

Architecture (BE) 

Nancy Diniz (until 02/2015) 

Phd, Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, 

University College London (UK) 

MSc, Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, 


MA Urban Design, ISCTE/Instituto 

Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon (PT) 

Dipl Arch, Lusiada University, Lisbon (PT) 

Yiping Dong 

PhD, Tongji University (CN) 

MArch, Tongji University (CN) 

BArch, Tongji University (CN) 


Dipl Eng Arch, Aristotle University of 

Thessaloniki (GR) 

Chartered Architect (GR) 


MSc, Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, 


BArch, University College, Dublin (IE) 

RIBA Chartered Architect and Specialist 

Conservation Architect (UK) 

Thomas Fischer 

PhD, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 

University (AUS) 

PhD, University of Kassel (D) 

MEd equiv., University of Kassel (D) 

Mariá Fullaondo (until 02/2015) 

PhD, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) 

MArch, ETSAM, Universidad Politécnica de 

Madrid (ES) 



PhD, Brandenburg University of Technology (D) 

Dipl-Ing Arch, Universität Fridericiana zu 

Karlsruhe (D) 

Licensed and registered Architect, Berlin 

Chamber of Architects (D) 

Jiawen Han 

Ph.D., Architecture, University of New South 

Wales (AUS) 

M.Arch, Dalian University of Technology (CN) 


PhD, University of Hong Kong (HK) 

MArch, University of Hong Kong (HK) 

Dipl-Ing Arch, University of Kassel (D) 


Ph.D., Environmental Design and 

Engineering, University college LondonMSc, 

Environmental Design and Engineering, 


M.A., Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic 

Institute (USA) 

Andrew Johnston (until 02/2016) 

PhD, University of California, Berkeley (USA) 

MArch, University of California, Berkeley (USA) 

MSUD, Pratt Institute (USA) 

BA, Hampshire College (USA) 

Registered Architect and Certified Planner (USA) 

Moon Keun Kim 

Ph.D., Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of 

Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) 

M.Sc, Architectural Engineering, Pennsylvania 

State University at University Park (USA) 

M.Sc, Engineering Acoustics, Technical 

University of Denmark (DK) 

M.Sc, Architecture, Yonsei University (ROK) 

Marian Macken 

PhD, University of Sydney (AUS) 

MArch, University of Technology Sydney (AUS) 

BLArch, University of New South Wales (AUS) 

BSc (Arch), University of Sydney (AUS) 

Ciro Márquez (until 02/2015) 

MArch, ETSAM, Universidad Politécnica de 

Madrid (ES) 


M.Arch, Advanced Architectural Design, 

Städelschule Architecture Class (SAC) - 

Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, 

Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.), Architecture, Architecture 

Faculty, University of Belgrade (FAUB) 

Paolo Scrivano 

PhD, Politecnico di Torino (IT) 

Dipl. Arch., Politecnico di Torino (IT) 

A. Benjamin Spaeth (until 08/2015) 

Dipl-Ing Arch, University of Stuttgart (D) 

Lina Stergiou 

Ph.D., Faculty of Art, Design&Architecture, 

Kingston University, London (UK) 

M.Arch, Post-professional, Graduate School 

of Architecture and Urban Design, Pratt 

Institute, New York (USA) 

Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.), Professional, School of 

Architecture, National Technical University of 

Athens (GR) 

Caterina Tiazzoldi 

PhD, Architecture, Politecnico di Torino (IT) 

M.Sc, GSAPP Columbia University, Advanced 

Master, Architecture (US) 

Glen Wash 

PhD, University of Tokyo (JP) 

MEng, University of Tokyo (JP) 

Dipl Arch, Catholic University of Valparaiso (CL) 

Licensed Architect (CL) 


PhD, University of Plymouth (UK) 

Pgr Dipl Media Art, Karlsruhe University of 

Art and Design (D) 

Dipl-Ing Arch, University of Karlsruhe, TH (D) 

Chartered Architect (D) 


Dipl Arch, Birmingham Polytechnic (UK) 

BSc(Hons), Bartlett School of Architecture, 


Chartered Architect RIBA (UK) 

Part-time Tutors 

Hannan Bensho 

Antonio Berton 

Joan Cane 


Paul Ebell 

Alexandre Edouard Emmanuel Gilot 

Marta Gomez Anaya 


Justin Johnston 

Liang Ma 

Bart Mahieu 

Li-An Tsien 

Supporting staff 

Jiaqi Fu, Built Environment Administrator 

Lili Chen, Department Secretary 

Xiru Ma, Department Secretary 

Chaoying Tian, Department Secretary (until 04/2015) 

Jian Chen, Lab Technician 

Qinting Gu, Lab Technician (until 03/2015) 

Chen Sun, Lab Technician

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