Professor丨Doctor of Engineering
Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering（OSAKA UNIV.）
513, Main Building
Email arch@tju.edu.cn
Website http://arch.tju.edu.cn/
Teaching Area(s): design studio, Chinese classical gardens, Japanese architecture
Research Theme(s): Chinese garden aesthetics, architectural culture, residential environment design
LIU Tongtong is a Professor of landscape architecture at School of Architecture, Tianjin University. She also serves as a member of the history and theory committee in the Chinese landscape architecture society. Since the year 2017, she has served as the adjunct Dean of the School of Civil Engineering, Qinghai Nationalities University. She pursues her research on the history and aesthetic theory of Chinese classic gardens and landscape, comparison of architectural culture between China and Japan, residential problem and environmental design. Her research interests focus on the influence of Confucian and other ancient thoughts during the history of Chinese gardens development. It is under the influence of these ancient thoughts that gardens show unique spatial images and artistic conception, and become the external symbols of spiritual pursuit in ancient China. In addition, she also pays attention to the study of the inheritance and innovation of traditional culture and the comparison between China and Japan in the field of architecture and traditional gardens.
Dr Tongtong holds Doctor’s, Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees of Engineering from Tianjin University. She also obtained her PhD in Architectural Engineering from Osaka University, Japan and has since revisited this university in 2014 as a guest researcher. She has numerously coached students to win international and domestic architectural design competition awards. As the project manager, she undertook the Art Research Program of the National Social Science Foundation of China "Academic History Research of Chinese Classical Garden". And has participated in several scientific research projects, such as NSFC and NSSFC.
