Professor丨Doctor of Engineering
Associate Head, Department of Architecture
Director, Center for International Cooperation
304, Main Building
Email: walker_yang@tju.edu.cn
Teaching Areas: design studio, sustainability of built environment
Research Theme: building LCA&LCC, building stock, environmental design
Yang Wei is a Professor of Architecture at School of Architecture, Tianjin University. She is currently serving as the director for international cooperation of the school, and the associate head of the Department of Architecture. Her main research field is building life cycle assessment and sustainable evolution of the built environment. She is teaching the design studio on ‘building in life cycle’, with concerns climate responsive and resource conservation design strategies. Her seminar course ‘Built environment in a Resource Conservation Perspective’ introduces the theories and analytical methods of the environmental, economic and social-cultural issues during the evolution of the urban building stocks. Her recent research projects are on the integration of BIM, LCA, LCC with the design process, and the parametric design methods and tools to optimize building life cycle performances. She had also done projects on China’s national building stock, urban housing stocks and urban fragments.
Yang Wei hold the professional Bachelor and Master’s Degrees in Architecture and the Doctor of Engineering from Tianjin University. She studied at Karlsruhe University (KIT) from 2003-2005 as an exchanging Ph.D student, where she started her research topic on building LCA and building stocks. She had revisited Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2009 and 2018, and visited ETH Zurich in 2010 as a guest researcher.
