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Dr Zheng Shiling |
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Prof Dr Zheng Shiling was born in the city of Chengdu,
Sichuan Province in 1941. He graduated
from the Department of Architecture from Tongji University in 1965
and obtained his PhD
degree in History and Theory of architecture from Tongji University
in 1993.
Zheng Shiling is one of the leading Chinese architects and theorists.
He has made great contributions to the urban development and the
preservation of the historical architecture in Shanghai. In September
1998, he was nominated by the Shanghai Municipality Government as
the Director of the Urban Space and Environment Committee, Shanghai
Urban Planning Commission and a Member of the Superior Consulting
Committee of Science and Technology Association.
Zheng Shiling was the Vice President of Tongji University from 1995
to 2000. He has become the Director of Chinese - French Centre for
Architecture and Urban Studies since 2000 and Director of Shanghai
- Bacelona Centre for Architecture and Urban Studies in 2001. Many
of his works have won national and Shanghai architectural design
prizes.
His design and planning concept has expressed the integrated relationship
among architecture, society and culture, and the investigation of
the harmony with the nature. His design work has displayed the symbiosis
of human beings and the city and the nature.
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