HE Beijie
Associate Professor
Email: hebeijie@tju.edu.cn
https://tju.academia.edu/BeijieHE
Teaching Area(s): Chinese traditional architecture, research project/thesis, architecture design
Research Theme(s): architects and drawings, history/theory of architecture, comparative architectural history
Dr. HE Beijie is now an Associate Professor on architectural history and theory of School of Architecture, Tianjin University. She also serves as the council member of the Chinese Society of the Forbidden City which is affiliated to the Palace Museum in Beijing. She specialises in the history and theory of traditional Chinese architecture. Drawing on original archive sources, especially the architects' drawings and manuscript of the 18-19th Century called "Yangshi Lei Archives”, her research concentrates on architects and architectural practice in imperial China, to place architecture in context and to understand how buildings were conceived, designed, constructed, understood and used. Other research interests include the interior design in imperial buildings, the comparative study of architectural history and the application of VR/AR in architectural heritage exhibition. She teaches Chinese traditional architecture and architecture design in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the University. She is also doing projects of building heritage measuring.
Trained as an architect, Dr. He got her professional Bachelor Degree in Architecture design from Tianjin University. From 2004, she received an academic training as an architectural historian and got the Master’s Degree in Architecture and Doctor of Engineering from Tianjin University. And then, she joined Tianjin University as an academic fellow, becoming an Assistant Professor in Architectural History in February 2013. From 2017 to 2018, she visited the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge UK as a guest researcher for one year.
