Honoring Kongjian Yu

Описание: It’s not hard to overstate the impact of Kongjian Yu on the profession and practice of landscape architecture. The peasant’s son who grew up in a tiny village in China and self-described “rural bumpkin” would eventually change the urban planning practices of the world’s second most populous nation and great superpower. His “sponge cities” concept has been implemented in scores of Chinese cities and become a global phenomenon. He traveled the world speaking at conferences, universities, government conclaves, and other venues, and he made friends everywhere he went. He was widely hailed for his work and in 2023 he won the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize. The Soak it Up: Los Angeles, CA conference was to be the final event in the two years of public engagement activities associated with his winning the Oberlander Prize. Now the conference is also a memorial honoring him and his legacy.  Among the presenters at the conference is Kongjian’s friend Mario Schjetnan, recently announced along with his Mexico City-based firm, Grupo de Diseño Urbano, as the 2025 Oberlander Prize winner.

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