Professor | Doctor of Engineering
Associate Head, Department of Landscape Architecture
Director of Digital Construction Laboratory
Vice-Director of the Planning Information Management Committee of Tianjin Urban Planning Institute
School of Architecture, Tianjin University
563537280@qq.com , huyike11@tju.edu.cn
Teaching Area: Design-Build Courses, Professional Skills, Planning of Scenic Areas
Research Theme: Urban and Rural Public Space, Construction, Planning and
Designing of Famous Scenic Sites
Professor Hu is the Associate Head of the department of Landscape Architecture at Tianjin University, the Director of the Digital Construction Laboratory of School of Architecture at Tianjin University and Vice-Director of the Planning Information Management Committee of Tianjin Urban Planning Institute. He is in charge of supervising master students of LA, Arch and doctoral students of LA.
Professor Hu is also the Visiting Scholar at Tsinghua University(Taiwan) and at IIAS (Leiden University, Netherlands, 2015), Liaison of UKNA Asia Knowledge Network (EU Project), Deputy Editor of UED, "City, Environment, Design", Editorial board member of Landscape Design and Tiangong, Expert in Landscape Architecture and Chinese Landscape Architecture, Member of the Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture, Member of the expert group of Tianjin Planning Bureau. Dr. Hu has participated in 2021 Beijing Design Week, UN, Bauhaus, Venice Biennale architecture exhibitions.
Up to now, he has won more than 30 awards, instructed students to win 60 awards in both international and national competitions, and published more than 20 core papers and books, including translations. His recent research projects aim to clarify the composition of urban public space systems, import computer vision technology into the study of urban public space, analyze modes of crowd behavior, relate space with human behaviors, form prototypes of shape, and promote precision and intelligent design of urban public spaces. He also studied the renewal of rural public spaces, by exploring these initiatives through the Landscape Planning and Design Project of Lou Na Square and the International University Construction Festival.
The main contents of his teaching courses include: professional skills for landscape architects, protection planning of scenic spots; a design studio and experimental class in the second grade of architecture; and the teaching of landscape architecture undergraduates. He is currently undertaking two projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and presides over three other projects dealing with horizontal issues in urban development. Through the partnership with UED magazine, it has come to include research-based learning, leading the design team of Tianjin University at the International University Construction Festival to participate in the International University Construction Competition several times, a number of which were met with success.
He has received Ph. D degree in Landscape Architecture from Tsinghua University, he is also a senior landscape planner recognized by the International Association of Landscape Planning and Design, M. Des. S degree in Architectural Design and Theory from Dalian University of Technology, and B.S degree from the same institution.
