Kongjian Yu wins the 2023 Oberlander Prize for achievements in landscape architecture
Kongjian Yu has been announced as the winner of this year’s Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF). Yu follows University of Virginia emeritus professor Julie Bargmann as the second winner of the bi-annual $100,000 award, which was first established in 2021 in order to celebrate practitioners whose work addresses various social issues while improving the overall trajectory of the public realm. Yu is known throughout the landscape profession for pioneering the ‘sponge city’ urban design concept in China after 1995. He said in a recent interview that its roots stem from his childhood experiences in Jinhua. Its rise in influence peaked in 2014 when it became a part of the government's official urban development policy, and it is currently projected to impact more than 80% of all mid- to large-sized cities in the country by the end of the decade.Read the full post on Bustler
Kongjian Yu has been announced as the winner of this year’s Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF).
Yu follows University of Virginia emeritus professor Julie Bargmann as the second winner of the bi-annual $100,000 award, which was first established in 2021 in order to celebrate practitioners whose work addresses various social issues while improving the overall trajectory of the public realm.
Yu is known throughout the landscape profession for pioneering the ‘sponge city’ urban design concept in China after 1995. He said in a recent interview that its roots stem from his childhood experiences in Jinhua. Its rise in influence peaked in 2014 when it became a part of the government's official urban development policy, and it is currently projected to impact more than 80% of all mid- to large-sized cities in the country by the end of the decade.Read the full post on Bustler
