Faculty

Peter G. Rowe Professor Department of Urban Planning and Design

Curriculum Vitae

DEGREES

Melbourne University, Architecture, BArch, 1969.

Rice University, Urban Design, MArch in Urban Design, 1971.

Harvard University, AM (Hon.), 1986.

Melbourne University, Doctor of Architecture, honoris causa, 2013.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching

1987- Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

2004- Harvard University. Distinguished Service Professor.

1992-2004 Dean, Faculty of Design, Harvard University.

1988-92 Chairman, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

1985-90 Director, Urban Design Programs, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

1985-87 Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

1981-85 Director, School of Architecture, Rice University.

1985 Professor, School of Architecture, Rice University

1977-85 Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Rice University.

1977-85 Adjunct Associate Professor of Human Ecology, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas.

1973-77 Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Rice University.

1972-73 Instructor, School of Architecture, Rice University.

1971-72 Lecturer, School of Architecture, Rice University.

Research and Practice

2012- Chairman and co-founder, SURBA – Studio for Urban Analysis, New York

Major project involvement dedicated to the analysis of urban phenomena aimed at improving policy making, with a particular emphasis on senior advisory and consulting services to both the public and private sectors, internationally.

2004-07 Education Programme Director, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Geneva.

Major consulting assignments included: coordination of on-going surveys of architecture, planning and environmental design educationprograms in the Muslim world and those concerning conditions for practice in the Muslim world; curriculum development; oversight, forthe Trust, of the Aga Khan Programs in Architecture at Harvard and MIT; organization and sponsorship of architectural fora, symposiaand lectures; oversight of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture; liason with the Aga Khan Historic Cities Support Program; and specialassignments in development planning for the Aga Khan Development Network.

1981-87 Principal, Environmental Planning and Design, Houston, Texas.

Major project involvement included: urban modeling, growth forecasting,environmental impact assessment, pre-design project analysis, urban design and planning and public policy evaluation.

1978-81 Vice President and Research Director, Rice Center, Houston, Texas.

Major project involvement included: Direction of technical programs and environmental and transportation modeling, together with impact assessment and policy formulations.

1976-78 Director, Environmental Program, Southwest Center for Urban Research, Houston, Texas.

Leadership of the environmental program dealing with impacts of urbanization on natural environments. Also, research work concentrated on the role of local government in environmental management and community development.

RECENT HONORARY PROFESSORSHIPS, MEMBERSHIPS AND AWARDS

Qiushi Chair Professor, Zhejiang University, 2016-2019.

High-Level Foreign Expert, Tsinghua University, 2016-2019.

Visiting Fellow, Center for Livable Cities, Singapore, 2015-2017

Honorary International Chair Professor, National Taipei University of Technology, 2014-2017

Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong,

2014- Distinguished Alumni Award, Rice University, 2014.

Honorary (Guest) Professor, Tsinghua University, 2013-

Honorary Professor, Tongji University, 2003-

Honorary Member, AccademiadeiBenigni, Italy, 2002-

Honorary Professor, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, 1999-

Honorary Member, Boston Society of Architects, 1986-

Member, American Planning Association, 1981-2004, 2011-

OTHER RECENT ACADEMIC AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

Member, International Strategic Committee of Tsinghua-CIFI Center for Sustainable Community, 2016 –

Member, College of Reviewers for the Canada Research Chairs, 2015 –

Jury Member, Global Schindler Award, Switzerland, 2014-2015.

Member, Asia Center Steering Committee, Harvard University, 2014-2017.

Member, Council on Asian Studies, Harvard University, 2013-2015.

Member, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, 2012-

Member, External Advisory Board of the Architecture and Sustainable design Program of Singapore University of

Technology and Design, 2013-

Jury Member, Parque del Rio Medellin Competition, Medellin, Colombia, July 31-August 2, and October 14-15, 2013.

Jury Member, The World Knowledge Forum: Creative and Adaptive City Design Competition, Seoul, South Korea, August 25, 2013.

Member, Advisory Panel of the Guangzhou Planning Committee, 2012-

Member, William Ward Watkin Council, Rice University, 2012.

An Executive Director, Hainan University Council, Hainan University, 2011-

Member, Wuhan City Planning Board Consultants Committee, Wuhan, China 2011-

Chairman, External Academic Review Committee for the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, 2010.

Member, International Advisory Committee for the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking

University, 2010-

Board Member, UNESCO World Heritage Institute of Training and Research in Asia and thePacific Region,

2008- International Advisor, People's Municipal Government of Guiyang, China, 2007-

Member, Steering Committee, China Fund, Harvard University, 2006-

Vice Chairman, International Advisory Council, People's Municipal Government of Wuhan, China, 2005-

Senior Consultant, Building China Modern, Public Broadcasting System, 2002-07.

Member, Steering and Executive Committees, Asia Center, Harvard University, 2001-04.

Member, Board of Trustees for the Cities Programme, London School of Economics, 2001-07.

Board Member, Centre Canadiend'Architecture, 1995-2007.

Senior Advisor, Center for Urban Development Studies, Tongji University, 2003- 06.

Jury Member, Manzanares River competition, Madrid, Spain, 2005.

Chairman, Review Committee for the Department of Architecture, ETH, Zurich, 2005.

Honorary Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Architecture and Studies, 2005.

Jury Chairman, Hellenikon Project, Athens, Greece, 2004.

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Monographs

Rowe, Peter G.; Ann Forsyth and Har Ye Kan. China’s Urban Communities: Concepts, Contexts and Well-Being. Basel: Birkhauser, 2016, 200 pages

Rowe, Peter G. and Har Ye Kan. Urban Intensities: Contemporary Housing Types and Territories. Basel: Birkhauser, 2014, 233 pages.

Oscar Riera Ojeda, George Renalli, and Peter Rowe (eds.) Clear Light: The Architecture of LaurettaVinciarelli. Shenzhen: Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishing, 2014, 292 pages. (Distributed by Thames and Hudson).

Rowe, Peter G., Kristen Hunter, Sanghoon Jung et al. Methodological Notes on the Spatial Analysis of Urban Formation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2012, 117 pages.

Rowe, Peter G. Emergent Architectural Territories in East Asian Cities. Basel: Birkhauser, 2011, 208 pages.

Rowe, Peter G. (ed.) A City and Its Stream: The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project. Seoul: Seoul Development Institute, 2011, 265 pages. (English and Korean).

Rowe, Peter G. Building Barcelona: A Second Renaixena. Barcelona: Actar, 2006, 207 pages. (Spanishand Catalan translations, 2007).

Rowe, Peter G. East-Asia Modern: Shaping the Contemporary City . London: Reaktion Press, 2005, 224pages. (Korean translation, 2006).

Kuan, Seng and Peter G. Rowe (eds.) Shanghai: Architecture and Urbanism for Modern China . Munich:Prestel-Verlag, 2004, 185 pages.

Rowe, Peter G., and Seng Kuan.Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China .Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2002, 287 pages (Chinese translation, 2004; Italian translation, 2005).

LüJunhua, Peter G. Rowe and Zhang Jie (eds.) Modern Urban Housing in China: 1840-2000. Munich:Prestel-Verlag, 2001, 303 pages. (Chinese translation, 2005).

Rowe, Peter G. L’Asia e ilModerno. Ancona: Transeuropa, 1998, 91 pages.

Rowe, Peter G. and Hashim Sarkis (eds.) Projecting Beirut: Episodes in the Construction and Reconstruction of a ModernCity. Munich:Prestel-Verlag, 1998, 302 pages.

Rowe, Peter G.Civic Realism. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1997, 255 pages. (Paperback edition 1999 and Chinese translation, 2015).

Rowe, Peter G. Modernity and Housing. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1993, 408 pages. (Paperback edition 1995).

Rowe, Peter G. Making a Middle Landscape. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press,1991, 354 pages. (Paperback edition 1992).

Rowe, Peter G. Design Thinking. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1987, 228 pages. (Japanese translation 1988; paperback edition1991; Chinese translation 1999; simplified Chinese translation 2008).

Bedient, Philip B. and Rowe, Peter G. (eds.) Urban Watershed Management: Flooding and Water Quality. Rice University Studies, Vol. 65, No. 1, Rice University, Houston, Texas, Winter 1979, 205 pages.

Rowe, P.G., Mixon, J., Smith, B.A., Blackburn, J.B., Jr., Callaway, G.L. and Gevirtz, J.L. Principles for Local EnvironmentalManagement. Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1978, 272 pages.

Recent Articles, Chapters and Proceedings

Rowe, Peter G. “Foreword” in Limin Hee, Constructing Singapore’s Public Space. Berlin: Springer, 2016.

Jung, Sanghoon; Yonchan Kwon and Peter G. Rowe. “The Minimum Dwelling Approach by the Housing, Urban and Regional Planning Institute (HURPI) of South Korea in the 1960s” The Journal of Architecture, vol. 21, no. 2, 2016, pp.101-209.

Guan, Chenghe and Peter G. Rowe. “The Concept of Urban Intensity in China’s Townization Policy: Cases From Zhejiang Province”. Cities, vol. 55, 2016, pp. 22-41.

Rowe, Peter G. and Har Ye Kan. “China’s Modernist Superblocks” in David Ma and Liere Asensio Villoria (eds.) Life-style, Health and Places, Berlin, Jovis, 2016, pp. 92-103.

Rowe, Peter G. “City Narratives: Pursuing Green Agendas .Urban Solutions: Building With Nature, Issue 8, February 2016, pp. 46-53.

Rowe, Peter G. “Spatial Practices in China’s Urban Residential Districts: A Time for Change” in Michael Sorkin (ed.) Urban Research, Kongjian Yu: Letters to the Mayors of China. New York: Terreform, 2016.

Rowe, Peter G. “A Turning Point at Age 50” Center for Livable Cities Insight, Issue no.8, 2015, pp.1-5.

Rowe, Peter G. “The Civic, The Real and The Specific” and “Civic Realism as a Constellation of Conceptual Dimensions” in Anita Berrizbeitia (ed.) Urban Landscape: Critical Concepts and the Built, Envirtonment.Vol. III, London: Routledge, 2015, PP. 290-301.

Rowe, Peter G. “Building Forwards and Backwards in Time: Architectural Modernisms in East and Southeast Asia” in Stephen Ross and Alana Lindgren (eds.) The Modernist World. London: Routledge, 2015, pp. 25-32.

Rowe, Peter G. “Preface”, Civic Realism. Beijing: Yilin Press (Chinese Translation), 2015, pp.i-ii

Rowe, Peter G. and Har Ye Kan. “Fashion Streets: Urban-Architectural Venues in Western and Eastern Markets” in Bing Wang and Richard Peiser (eds.) Prestige Retail Design and Development. International Council of Shopping Centers, 2014 (forthcoming).

Rowe, Peter G. “On Shaping the Space of Time in Urban Circumstances”. Urban Design, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2014, pp. (forthcoming).

Rowe, Peter G. “Pursuit of Urban Intensity: Spatial Distribution of Population, Transport and Employment in Mega-Cities at Two Levels of Resolution”. Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium on Shanghai’s Development in the 21st Century. Shanghai, June, 2014, pp.45-50.

Rowe, Peter G. “Balance City’s Physical Needs with Livability”. (Interview) Shanghai Daily. Tuesday, June 17, 2014, p.A7.

Rowe, Peter G. “Foreword”, in Felipé Correa and Carlos Garcia Velez Alfaro (eds.) Mexico City: Between Geography andGeometry. San Francisco: Applied Research and Design Publishing, 2014. (forthcoming)

Rowe, Peter G. “Preface”, in Carlos Garcia Velez Alfaro. Form and Pedagogy: An Atlas of the 20th Century University Cityin Latin America. San Francisco: Applied Research and Design Publishing, 2014, pp.8-9.

Rowe, Peter G. “Obsolescence Regeneration and Resilience in Urban Form: Some Observations”. Proceedings of theUrban Regeneration and Land Resources Security Symposium. Taipei, 2014, pp.1-4.

Rowe, Peter G. and Har Ye Kan. “Macau and Its Borders”, in Christopher Lee (ed.) Macau: Cross-border City. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2014, pp.50-65.

Rowe, Peter G. and Har Ye Kan. “Objects in Territories Along Chang’an and Century Avenues: Cases of Spatial Planning in Beijing and Shanghai as Global Cities”, in Jianfei Zhu, Wei Chen and Hua Li (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Chinese Architecture: A Brief Introduction. London: Routledge, 2014 (forthcoming).

Rowe, Peter G. “Building Forwards and Backwards in Time: Architectural Modernisms in East and Southeast Asia”, in Stephen Ross and Alana Lindgren (eds.) The Modernist World. London: Routledge, 2014 (forthcoming).

Rowe, Peter G. “Urbanismo: Rispairar de Novo, Restauração do Cheonggyecheon”. Arquitetura e Urbanismo.Ano 28, No. 234, Setembro 2013, pp.64-71.

Rowe, Peter G. “Well Grounded Explorations: The Work of Wu Yue and Design Studio”, in (forthcoming).

Rowe, Peter G. and Har Ye Kan. “Coming of Age: The Emergence of Third Stream Architects in Contemporary China”. Architecture Asia. May 2013, pp.8-13.

Rowe, Peter G. “Form and Manner: The Urban Projects of BAU”. World Architecture, 02, 2013, pp.36-41.

Rowe, Peter G. “Foreword” in Inha Jung. Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2013, pp. vii-x.

Rowe, Peter G. “Future Asian Cities: Urban Formations, Regional Reflections and Sustainable Developments”. Beijing Planning Review. Vol. 1, 2013, pp.4-26.

Jung, Sanghoon, Du Huynh and Peter G. Rowe. “The Pattern of Foreign Property Investment in Vietnam: The Apartment Market in Ho Chi Minh City”. Habitat International, July 2013, pp.105-113.

Ramos, Stephen and Peter G. Rowe. “Planning, Prototyping and Replication in Dubai”, in Amed Kanna (ed.) TheSuperlative City: Dubai and the Urban Condition in the Early Twenty-first Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2013, pp.18-33.

Kim, Saehoon and Peter G. Rowe. “Are Masterplans Effective in Limiting Development in China’s Disaster-prone Areas?” Landscape and Urban Planning Review. Vol. 12, 2012, pp.1016-1022.

Rowe, Peter G. “China’s Water Resources and Houtan Park,” in William Saunders (ed.) Designed Ecologies: TheLandscape Architecture of Kongjian Yu. Basel: Birkhaüser, 2012, pp.184-191.

Rowe, Peter G. “Web, Band, Network and Field Operations as Alternatives to the Conventions of Green Belts and Wedges in the Beijing Metropolitan Plan”, in Kongjian Yu, Peter G. Rowe, Stephen Ervin, and Mark Mulligan (eds.)Taihu Prospects:Peri-urban Development in China, Alternatives for the Landscape of Southeast Beijing. Beijing: Architecture and Building Construction Press, 2012, pp.44-48.

Rowe, Peter G. “Singapore: Becoming a Lively, Liveable and Sustainable City” A+U no. 501, June 2012,pp.16-19 (English and Japanese).

Rowe, Peter G. and Har Ye Kan. “Accommodation of China’s Industrial Heritage in Urban Conservation Practices (Parts 1 & 2)” China City Planning Review. vol. 21, nos. 1 &2, 2012, pp. 16-21 & 15-20.

Rowe, Peter G. and Har Ye Kan. “Modern and Chinese: Recent Trends in Urban Architecture”. Harvard Asian Quarterly, winter 2011, Vol.XIII, no. 4, pp. 6-16.

Rowe, Peter G. “Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China: Fostering Talent”. (Book Review) American Ethnologist, vol. 39, no. 1, February 2012, pp. 232-233.

Rowe, Peter G. “Architecture, Urban Design and East Asian Cities”. Planning and Policy, 2012, no. 3, pp. 85-103 (English and Korean).

Kim, Saehoon and Peter G. Rowe. “Does Large-sized Cities Urbanization Predominantly Degrade Environmental Resources in China? Relationships Between Urbanization and Resources in the Changjiang Delta Region”. InternationalJournal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology. DO1:10/13504509, 2012, Jan. 10.

Rowe, Peter G.“Striking a Balance in the Neighborhood”. Work Style Magazine, December, 2011.

Rowe, Peter G. “Reciprocities Between Parts and Whole,” in Shangwen Chiu (ed.) Scales of Practice: The Work of ChanKrieger Sieniewicz. Beijing: China Building and Construction Press, 2011, pp.vi-vii.

Rowe, Peter G. “Networks Cities and China’s Urban Peripheries,” in James Brealey and Fang Qun (eds.) Networks Cities. Beijing: China Architecture and Building Press, 2011, pp. 30-35.

Rowe, Peter G. “Urban Formation in China Since 1950 Seen from Afar,” China City Planning Review, vol. 20, no. 1, 2011, pp.6-14.

Rowe, Peter G. “Urban Residential District Making in China” in William C. Kirby (ed.) The People’s Republic of China atSixty : AnInternational Assessment. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011, pp. 163-172.

Rowe, Peter G. “Foreword,” in Zhang Jie. ZhongguoGudaiKongjianWenhuaSuyuan(The Cultural Gene of Chinese Space). Beijing:Tsinghua University Press, 2011, pp. i-iv.(English and Chinese).

Rowe, Peter G. and Bing Wang. “Formation and Re-formation of the Architecture Profession in China: Episodes, Underlying Aspects, and Present Needs,” in William P. Alford, Kenneth Winston and William C. Kirby (eds.) Prospects forthe Professions in China. New York:Routledge, 2011, pp. 257-282.

Rowe, Peter G. “Foreword”’ in Landscape and Ecological Urbanism Alternatives for Sujiato, Beijing. Beijing: China Building and ConstructionPress, 2011, pp.6-7.

Rowe, Peter G. Contributed note to “George Baird’s Provocative Wisdom,” in Canadian Architect. May, 2010, vol.55, no.5, pp. 58-59.

Rowe, Peter G. “Tropical Excellence.Singapore,Towards a Vibrant and Livable City,” in Luis Fernández-Galiano (ed.) Atlas,Architectures ofthe 21st Century, Asia and Pacific.Bilbao: Fundación BBVA,2010, pp. 274-295.

Rowe, Peter G. “Foreword.” AUS – (Architettura, Urbanistica, Servizi) LavoriRecenti. Forli: Old and New World Publications, 2010, pp. 2-7.(English and Italian).

Rowe, Peter G. and Har Ye Kan.“Compactness and Diversity in Wuhan’s Functional Urban Formation” in Proceedings of the SixthInternational Advisory Council Meeting of the People’s Municipal Government of Wuhan. November 2009, pp. 171-178 (Chinese andEnglish).

Rowe, Peter G. “Along Chang’an: Plans, Architectural Territories and their Geographies,” in Jianfei Zhu (ed.). Sixty Years of Chinese Architecture, 1949-2009: History, Theory and Criticism. Beijing: China Architecture and Building Press, 2009, pp. 328-342.

Rowe, Peter G. “The Spatial Transformation and Restructuring of American Cities,” in Jacqueline Tatom, with Jennifer Stauber, (ed.)Standing Firm on Middle Ground: Towards a Metropolitan Urbanism. New York: Routledge, 2009, pp. 3-18.

Rowe, Peter G. “How Big and How Fast: A Profile of China’s Recent Urban Expansion.” Harvard Asia Quarterly, Winter 2008, vol. xi, no. 1,pp. 4-15.

Rowe, Peter G. “Density and Context: A Tri-National Account,” in Richard Marshall, (ed.) Dence(City). SponPublishing .

Rowe, Peter G. “Torre de Collserola,” in RagnaKörby (ed.). 7189 Meter Politics and Architecture. Frankfurt: German Architecture Museum.

Rowe, Peter G. “Wuhan’s Urban Rail Transit and Adjacent Developments in Context” in Proceedings of the FifthInternational Advisory Council Meeting of the People’s Municipal Government of Wuhan.November, 2007, pp. 166-179 (Chinese and English).

Rowe, Peter G. "The Awakening of the Giant, China and East Asia", in Luis Fernández-Galiano (ed.) Atlas,GlobalArchitecture Circa 2000 , Bilbao: Fundación BBVA, 2007, pp.222-235.

Rowe, Peter G. “Two Cities, Two Valleys and Their Middle Landscapes,” in Marcela Ángel, Fernando Jiménez and Ximena Samper, (eds.) La Ciudad-Región: El PaisajeIntermedio. Bogotá: Universidad de Los Anges, 2006, pp. 14-21.

Rowe, Peter G. “Urbanizing China,” in Iker Gil (ed.) Shanghai Transforming. Barcelona: Actar, 2008, pp. 76-80.

Rowe, Peter G. “Urbanization and City Making in Contemporary China: The Matter of Scale,” in Shan Wenhui, (ed.) Urbanization China: Culture, Identity and Spatial Transformation. Shanghai: FudanUniversity, 2006.

Rowe, Peter G. “No Longer Simply a Road: Madrid’s M-30 Project.” Arquitectura Viva, 107-108, 2006, pp. 42-51, El Pais, 22 November, 2006, p. 38, and Madrid M-30. Madrid: Turner Publications, 2007, pp. 12-16.

Rowe, Peter G. Modern Transition to Contemporary Realism: Changing Post-War Urban Conditions inJapan, in Akira Suzuki and Mariko Terada, (eds.) Archilab 2006 Japan: Nested in the City .Orlans:Archilab, 2006, pp.24-28.

Rowe, Peter G. Urban Design at Metropolitana: A Perspective from the Outside. CuadernosUnimetanos,2006, p.5.

Rowe, Peter G. "Urban Design in Traditional Contexts in Contemporary Times: An International Discussionand Concluding Observations." Abadi: Quarterly Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, vol. 15, no.49,2006, pp. 4-10.

Rowe, Peter G. "Concluding Remarks on Modern Housing in China." Architectural Journal (Chinese), no.4, 2006, pp. 8-12.

Rowe, Peter G. “Future Urban Divergences and Convergences.”Harvard College Economics Review, 2006.

Rowe, Peter G. “Unforeseen Urban Worlds: Post-1956 Phenomena.” Harvard Design Magazine, Spring/Summer 2006, pp. 52-58. (Arabic Translation, 2010, pp. 155-186).

Kongjian Yu, Peter G. Rowe, Stephen Ervin, and Mark Mulligan (eds.) Taihu Prospects: Peri-urban Development in China,Alternatives for the Landscape of Southeastern Beijing. Beijing: Architectural and Building Construction Press, 2012.

Rowe, Peter G. and Seng Kuan (eds). A Crossection Through the City: Redevelopment of the HanyangRiverfront in Wuhan,China . Cambridge Mass: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2005.

Rowe, Peter G. Scales of Practice: The Work of Chan Krieger and Associates. Cambridge, Mass:Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2004.

RECENT LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

Zhejiang Changjiang Delta Town Development and Data Research Institute, Wuzhen, China. Keynote in the Small Cities, Great Futures: 4th Forum on Changjiang Delta Town Development. Lecture titled “Sustainable and Green: Four Concepts and Some Projects”, June 30, 2016.

School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. Public Lecture titled “China’s Physical Urbanity of Residential Communities” May 19, 2016.

University of the Philipines. Presentation about Harvard and the Graduate School of Design. Manila, March 17, 2016.

Zhejiang Changjiang Delta Town Development and Data Research Institute, Nanjing, China. Keynote in the Small Cities, Great Futures: 3rd Forum on the Development of Towns in the Changjiang Delta. Lecture titled “Sustainable Towns in Well-Networked Urban Regions” August 1, 2015.

Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Conversation Around Mexico City: Between Geometry and Geography. Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, June 26, 2015.

School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. Speaker in a Lecture Series on Comparisons in Architecture and Urban Design Between East and West, sponsored by the One Asia Foundation. Lectures titled, “Building Barcelona: A Second Renaixença” and “Urban Intensities: Contemporary Housing Types and Territories”, May 22 and 29, 2015.

Zhejiang Changjiang Delta Town Development and Data Research Institute, Diankou, China. Keynote in the Small Cities, Great Futures: Changjiang Delta Towns Development Conference. Lecture title “A Case for Towns and Small Cities in an Urbanizing Regional Context”, February 24, 2015

Joint Center for Housing Studies Project Advisory Board Meeting, Alfred Taubman Center, Harvard University. Lecture titled, “Urban Housing in China”, September 30, 2014.

Shanghai Overseas Returned Scholars Association. Speaker in the International Symposium on Population and Future Development of Mega-Cities. Lecture titled, “Pursuit of Urban Intensity: Spatial Distribution of Population, Transport, and Employment in Mega-Cities at Two Levels of Resolution”, July 5, 2014.

National Taiwan University.Speaker in a Symposium Regarding Urban Regeneration. Lecture Titled, “Obsolescence, Regeneration, and Resilience in Urban Form: Some Observations”, April 12, 2014.

School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. Speaker in a Lecture Series on Comparisons in Architecture and Urban Design Between East and West, sponsored by the One Asia Foundation. Lectures titled, “Comparative Cases of Urban Planning and Design from China and the Developed World” and “Reflections on the Quality of Design Thinking in the Digital Age Around Matters of Problem-Space Vagueness and Definition”, March 14 and 21, 2014.

Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, Shenzhen. Participant in the Design Workshop and International Forum on the Creative Development for the Industrial Hub of ShekouDacheng Floor Factory, February 26, 2014.

Centro Roberto GauzaSada de Arte, Arquitectura y Diseño, Universidad de Monterrey. Participand in Beyond, 5th International Conference of Art, Architecture and Design. Lecture titled, “Emergent Architectural Territories in East Asia”, March 6, 2014.

Calxon Group, Shaoxin, China.Seminar participation. Lecture titled, “Cases of Urban Planning and Design from Developed Countries”, August 22, 2013.

University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.6th Meeting on Information Technology and Communication in the Construction Industry. Lecture titled, “Reflections on the Quality of Design Thinking in the Digital Age Around Matters of Problem-Space Vagueness and Definition”, July 25, 2013.

Van Alen Institute, New York. Lecture titled, “A City and Its Stream: The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project”, April 9, 2013.

School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. Speaker in a Lecture Series on Comparisons in Architecture and Urban Design Between East and West, sponsored by the One Asia Foundation. Lectures titled, “East Asian Modern: Shaping the Modern City” and “Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China”, March 18 and 21, 2013.

Melbourne University Design School. Special Lecture titled, “Shanghai Post-70s”, March 15, 2013.

School of Architecture, Rice University. RAMP Conversation with Peter Rowe, February 8, 2013.

Urban Design Asia 2012, Seoul, South Korea. Keynote Address titled, “Future Asian Cities: Regional Reflections and Sustainable Developments”, October 18, 2012.

Xinhua Press. Interview, “How Far Is Green Building From The U.S.” June 5, 2012.

Recent Catalogs, Studio Publications and Exhibition Notes

School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. Speaker in a Lecture Series on Comparisons in Architecture and Urban Design Between East and West, Sponsored by the One Asia Foundation. Lectures titled,”Urban Formation in China Seen From Afar” and “Emergent Architectural Territories in East Asian Cities”, April 9 and 16, 2012.

School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Symposium on Sustainable Cities: Future New Towns for Hong Kong. Presentation titled, “District Making for the 21st Century in China: Breaking Old and Not So Old Habits”, March 9, 2012.

School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Seoul National University. Lecture titled, “Emergent Architectural Territories in East Asian Cities”, December 10, 2011.

School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Kinoshita Lecture titled, “Emergent Architectural Territories in East Asian Cities”, December 3, 2011.

Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organization at Harvard. Conference on Civil Society and Nonprofits in China. Speaker and Panelist “The Architecture Profession: Unique Arrangements Undergoing Change,” January 22, 2011.

Department of History and the Baker – Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University. Tipping Points in Urban Change : Modern Perspectives on Agents of Urbanization. Presentation titled, “The City and Its Stream: Turning Points in Seoul’s Modern Development,”, March 25, 2010.

School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. Doctoral Forum of China (Architecture).Speaker and Special Member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Forum of China in Architecture. Lecture titled,“On Doctoral Study” and “Urban Formation in China from 1950 Seen from Afar,” October 15th-18th, 2009.

Fairbanks Center, Harvard University. The People’s Republic of China at Sixty: An International Assessment, Speaker and Panelist “Urban and Residential District Making: 1949-2009,” May 1st, 2009.

World Cities Summit 2008, Singapore. Speaker and panelist "Planning for a Distinctive and Vibrant City", June 24th, 2008.

China Committee of 100, Los Angeles. Speaker and panelist "Man and Environment: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives in Sustainability" April18th, 2008.

Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai, India.10th International Conference on Humane Habitat. Keynote Lecture titled, "Modern East Asian Urban Development: Indigenous Responses", January 25th, 2008.

School of Architecture, Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The 51st Angan Lecture titled, "East Asia Modern" January 22, 2008.

Fudan University, Shanghai, China. First Biennial Conference, Fudan University International Forum. Keynote Lecture titled, "Urbanization and City Making in China: The Matter of Scale", November 3, 2006.

School of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto. Lecture titled, "East Asia Modern", October 24, 2006.

Colombian Society of Architects, Bogota, Colombia. Lecture titled, "Shaping the Space of Time in Metropolitan Regions", May 17, 2006.

Center for Architecture, New York. Symposium, Barcelona-New York: Dialogues on Architecture and Urban Planning. Framing statement titled, "Barcelona: the Last Twenty-Five Years," and panel discussion moderator, March 18, 2006.

University of Metropolitana, Caracas Venezuela. Lecture titled, "Taking Back the Streets," February 22, 2006.

Ministry of Land, Environment and Infrastructure and Keio University. International Symposium titled "Parks and Stations: Creating Cultural Cores." Lecture titled, "Revitalization in Shinjuku, Shibuya and Shimokitazawa: An International Perspective," January 21, 2006.

RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

2014- Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University – Harvard University School of Public Health. Project titled, “HAPI: Health and Places Initiative.”

2011 -15 Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University – Eugene Corporation, Seoul, South Korea. Project titled, “Korean and East Asian Urban Research Program.”

2011-12 Co-investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University – Harvard Center for Population Studies and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Project titled, “Assessing the Determinants of Heat-related Mortality in Two New York Neighborhoods.”

2009-10 Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University – Seoul Development Institute, Seoul, South Korea. Project titled, “Evaluation of the Cheonggyecheon Stream Restoration Project and its Environs, Seoul, South Korea.”

2007-10 Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University—East West Cultural Development Center, Singapore. Project titled, “China Urban Research Fund.”

2007-08 Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University – David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Project titled, “Urban Design Issues and Proposals in San José, Costa Rica.”

2005-06 Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University–Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University,Project titled,“The Middle Landscape in Bogotá, Colombia and Caracas, Venezuela.”

2002-04 Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University–Regional Government of Emilia Romagna and the University ofBologna, Italy. Project titled, “Territorialization in the Region of Romagna, Italy.”

2001-06 Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Project titled, "The Tokyo Inner-City Project.”

1998-99 Co-Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Project titled, "The Joint Project for the Study of GreaterBeirut."

1999 Co-Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design Harvard University–Al-Hariri Foundation, Lebanon. Project titled, "Saida RegionalPlan."

1996-99 Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University–Hanssem Corporation, Seoul, Korea. Project titled,"Urbanizationin China and the North-East Asian Region."

1996-98 Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, AsiaworldInternationale, Taipei, Taiwan. Project titled,"Assessment of the Cagayan Special Economic Zone in the Philippines."

1995-96 Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Project titled, "An Urban Design Program for MetropolitanaUniversity, in Caracas, Venezuela."

1995 Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Project titled, "A Graduate Program in Landscape Architectureforthe University of Nuevo Leon, in Monterey, Mexico."

RECENT CONSULTING

2012 Peer Reviewer, Msheireb Properties, Qatar, Gulf Encyclopedia for Sustainable Urbanism: Analysis of the Past.

2011-12 Consultant, China Sustainable Energy Program, The Energy Foundation, Chenggong Urban District Development.

2010 Consultant, UrbanDATA, Shanghai, China, Kunming Building Height and Zoning.

2009 Advisor, Mayors Office, Incheon, South Korea.

2008 Consultant, UrbanDATA, Shanghai, China. Kunming Urban Design Guidelines.

2007- Consultant, Octave, Chengdu, Suzhou, Qingdao, China and New York.

2006 Consultant, Teo A. Khing Design, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

2006 Advisor, Deputy Mayors Office, Chuo-ku, Japan.

2005-06 Advisor, Advisory Board on Urban Issues, Governor’s Office, Puerto Rico.

2003 Advisor, Planning Bureau, Municipality of Wuhan, China.

2003 Advisor, Pudong New Area Planning Office, Shanghai, China.

2003 Advisor, Planning Bureau, City of Chengdu, China.

2001-04 Advisor and Consultant, City of Barcelona, Spain. New Strategic Projects.

2000 Urban Design Advisor, Mayor of Wenzhou, China

Consultant, Calxon Group, Shanghai, China, Townization in China.2013-15

2013 Consultant, UrbanDATA, Shanghai, China, Yuxi Central Area Development.