Prof. Zhongjie Lin – IACP Faculty Highlights

Zhongjie (Jeffrey) Lin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning

Director of Urban Design Concentration

Weitzman School of Design

University of Pennsylvania

林中杰 博士

宾夕法尼亚大学魏茨曼设计学院

城市与区域规划副教授、城市设计项目主任

zlin@design.upenn.edu

Dr. Zhongjie Lin is a scholar and practitioner of urbanism. He researches and teaches urban design, ecological urbanism, utopianism, and Asian architecture and urbanism. He is also a founding director of Futurepolis, an awarding-winning international planning and design consultancy.

林中杰博士是都市主义的学者和实践者,他研究和教学的领域包括城市设计、生态都市主义、乌托邦主义、亚洲建筑与城市。除了在宾大的终身教职,他也是国际性设计咨询机构未来都市事务所的联合创办人。

Dr. Lin is author or co-author of several books including Urban Design in the Global Perspective (2006),  Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement (2010), The Making of a Chinese Model New Town (2012), Vertical Urbanism (2018), and most recently Rio de Janeiro: Urban Expansion and Environment (2019). He is writing a new book examining the contemporary urbanization in China through the lens of its massive new town movement in the last thirty years. He also leads an interdisciplinary research project studying the “Spatial Visions Connecting China and the West,” sponsored by Penn Global.

林博士是多部专著的作者,包括《全球化时代的城市设计》、《丹下健三与新陈代谢运动》、《新城规划与建设》、《竖向城市主义》、以及最新的《里约热内卢》。他正在撰写一本关于中国最近三十年的城市化与大规模新城运动的专著。同时,作为首席研究员他领衔承担宾大的中国研究项目”联结中西的空间愿景”。

Dr. Lin is recipient of multiple distinguished honors including a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 2012, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013, and an Abe Fellowship in 2014. His work has also been recognized with three individual grants for publication or research from the Graham Foundation in 2008, 2011, and 2019 respectively, as well as a New Researcher Award by the Architectural Research Centers Consortium in 2012.

林博士获得众多国际奖项,包括2012年度的伍德罗-威尔逊学者奖、2013年度的古根海姆奖、2014年度的安倍学者奖。他的研究项目在2008、2011和2019年三次获得格拉汉姆基金会的研究与著作资助。2012年他也获得美国建筑研究中心联合会新研究人奖。

Before he joined the Weitzman School of Design at Penn, Dr. Lin was Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he had served as director of Master of Urban Design Program since 2014. He holds a Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Architecture from Tongji University.

在回到宾大设计学院任教之前,林博士是夏洛特北卡罗来纳大学建筑学院终身正教授、城市设计专业主任。他拥有同济大学建筑系建筑学学士和建筑学硕士学位、以及宾夕法尼亚大学建筑科学硕士和建筑学哲学博士学位。