Professor | PhD
Deputy Director | Center for International Affairs
Deputy Director | Institute of Urban Heritage Preservation and Regeneration
School of Architecture | Tianjin University
arch_tj@126.com
Teaching: Design studio, Preservation of Historical and Cultural Cities, An Introduction to Geographic Information System & Digital Cities, Managing Global City Regions
Research: Trans-cultural Cityscape and Landscape，Heritage Preservation and Urban Regeneration，Spatial Performance and Spatial Justice
Tianjie ZHANG is a professor at School of Architecture, Tianjin University. She is also deputy director of the Center for International Affairs, as well as deputy director of the Institute of Urban Heritage Preservation and Regeneration. She obtained her PhD from National University of Singapore with full fellowship and President’s Scholarship. During 2014-2015, she visited University of Virginia, USA, supported by the State Scholarship Fund of China. She has been nominated as a committee member for Theory & History Committee of Chinese Urban and Rural Planning, Theory & History Committee of Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture, and Chinese Society of Industrial Heritage.
Professor Zhang’s teaching and research interests include trans-cultural cityscape and landscape, heritage preservation and urban regeneration, spatial performance and spatial justice. She has been widely published in leading Chinese journals and English books on these subjects, and has given more than 30 English lectures worldwide. She has been granted 3 national research foundations of China as principal, and awarded international funds from ARI (Singapore), AAS (USA), SAH (USA), to name a few. Under her supervision, her students have won considerable Best Paper Awards in IUSAM, TSINGRUN Competition, etc.
