Panorama architect Kongjian Yu (1963-2025) has died in an aeroplane accident, it has been introduced. The famend Chinese language design skilled was engaged on a challenge in south-western Brazil when the small vessel he was in crashed.
2023 Oberlander Prize Laureate Kongjian Yu
(Picture credit score: Barrett Doherty courtesy The Cultural Landsape Basis)
Kongjian Yu: the panorama architect and founding father of Turenscape
Kongjian Yu was a revered member of the worldwide panorama structure group – and a pioneering specialist in his nation, China, and past. He was the 2023 recipient of the distinguished Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Worldwide Panorama Structure Prize – the biennial accolade designed by Washington-based The Cultural Panorama Basis (TCLF) to boost consciousness of and have a good time excellence in its discipline, in addition to commemorate famend Canadian panorama architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, who died in 2021.
The panorama architect headed the field-leading agency Turenscape, and his rising portfolio included the seminal ‘sponge cities’ mannequin and marketing campaign. This sought to handle city flooding attributable to local weather change, and it was so influential that it was adopted as nationwide coverage in China in 2013.
Yu was additionally the founder and chief of the Graduate Faculty of Panorama Structure and the Faculty of Structure and Panorama Structure at Peking College.
Benjakitti Forest Park, Bangkok, Thailand, 2022
(Picture credit score: Turenscape courtesy The Cultural Panorama Basis)
‘Kongjian Yu was the worldwide champion of the “sponge cities” idea, a world ambassador for the career of panorama structure, and a world advocate for addressing the consequences of local weather change,’ stated Charles A Birnbaum, president and CEO of TCLF.
‘Solely two years in the past, he was awarded the biennial Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Worldwide Panorama Structure Prize, which is bestowed on a recipient who’s “exceptionally proficient, artistic, brave, and visionary”. The Oberlander Prize Jury Quotation [called him] a “sensible and prolific designer … [who] can also be a power for progressive change in panorama structure around the globe”,’ continued Birnbaum.
Benjakitti Forest Park, Bangkok, Thailand, 2022
(Picture credit score: Turenscape courtesy The Cultural Panorama Basis)
In the meantime, Gary Hilderbrand, chair of the Division of Panorama Structure, Harvard College Graduate Faculty of Design, stated on the time of Yu’s Oberlander Prize win that he was the ‘all-time biggest spokesperson for panorama structure in China – a nation that wants environmental rescue on a colossal scale’.
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