LIU Tingfeng
Professor
Doctoral Advisor | Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory
School of Architecture | Tianjin University
liutingfeng1590@126.com
Teaching Field: Principles of Environmental Landscape Design, Landscape Design, Landscape Architecture Theory and Trends, History and Culture of Chinese and Foreign Gardens, Vernacular Landscape Legacy
Research Field: Chinese Classical Gardens, Livable Environment Mechanism, Ethnic Minority Gardens, Japanese Gardens
Liu Tingfeng, born in Longyan, Fujian Province, was graduated from South China Tropical Crops College (now Hainan University) with a bachelor’s degree and Tongji University with a master and a doctoral degree. He studied under guidance of Professor Deng Shuping, a famous planning professor, Professor Lu Bingjie, an expert of ancient architecture, and Professor Peng Yigang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Liu Tingfeng is now a Professor and Doctoral Advisor of the Department of Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture at Tianjin University, and he serves as the Deputy Director of the Theoretical History Branch of the Chinese Landscape Architecture Society, the Director of the Academic Department of the Asian Landscape Architecture Association, and the Editorial Board member of Academic Journals such as Chinese Landscape Architecture.
Prof. Liu has published more than 200 academic papers in core journals such as Chinese Landscape Architecture, Architect and New Architecture, and published 21 books such as Comparison of Chinese and Japanese Classical Gardens, Preliminary Compilation of Chinese Garden Chronology and Garden Philosophy. He also led and participated in 4 National, Provincial and Academic Funded Projects, and won 20 International, National and Provincial Awards.
In recent years, Prof. Liu mainly focuses on researches about the Theory of Livable Environment based on Chinese traditional culture and natural factors of geography and astronomy , builds a cultural framework of history, region and ethnic group as three elements, and proposes the method of simulating and predicting the suitability of seven factors: wind, light, water, soil, green, sound and taste.
