Professor
, Ph.D
Director of the Institute of Geography
Office : Tianjin University Institute of Geography
liutingfeng1590@126.com
Teaching Areas: Landscape Design Principles, Chinese and Western Garden History and Culture, Heritage of Native Landscape
Liu Tingfeng is a Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Institute of Geography at the School of Architecture in Tianjin University. He works in the intersection of landscape architecture, architecture and planning. Combining with modern technology verification, he initiates the concept of planning and design based on inheriting the advantages of ancient Chinese culture. His latest research project combines the context of Chinese gardens with a history spanning more than five thousand years, then making lists out of five aspects, namely; time, name, location, characters and details of the gardens, then systematically marking the Plan with labels. It explains the changes of the gardens in history, and constructs the preliminary framework of Chinese landscape architecture. His teaching areas include Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctoral courses, design studios, seminars and interdisciplinary workshops, which combine empirical learning through partnerships between Tsinghua University, Beijing Forestry University, South China University of Technology and Suzhou University.
Professor Liu Tingfeng is the founder and Director of the Institute of Geography at the School of Architecture in Tianjin University. The Institute of Geography is the only Geomantic Research Institute in China. By exploring Feng Shui to understand ecology, by exploring Painting Theory to understand art, by exploring Religion to understand philosophy, while inheriting traditional culture, amalgamating modern science and technology to provide comprehensive interdisciplinary expertise to solve urban and rural, landscape and architectural planning and design issues. Professor Liu Tingfeng graduated from Hainan University, and obtained this Master's degree and Ph.D. from Tongji University, and has done his postdoctoral research at Tianjin University. He was taught by Deng Shuping, a famous planner, Lu Bingjie, an expert in ancient architecture, and Peng Yigang, an Academician of Tianjin University.