6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries Auditorium 271 Sponsored by: College of Environment and Design Contact: Stephen Ramos Assistant Professor 706-542-9886 Speaker: Kongjian Yu, world-renown landscape architect. The lecture will address his award winning projects as well as current works. Recipient of a Doctor of Design degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Yu is founder and dean of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Peking University. In addition, he is the founder and president of Turenscape, one of the first and largest private architecture and landscape architecture firms in China. His practice includes landscape and urbanism in major cities around the world.Yu’s numerous awards include 9 ASLA Excellence and Honor Awards and a 2009 Urban Land Institute Global Award, 2011 American Architectural Award, and 3 World’s Best Landscape Awards of the World Architecture Festival. His guiding design principles are the appreciation of the ordinary and deeply embracing nature, even in its potentially destructive aspects, such as floods. Among his most acclaimed projects are Houtan Park for the Shanghai Expo, the Red Ribbon Park in Qinhuangdao, and Shipyard Park in Zhongshan.Part of the 2012-2013 Art & Infrasturcture lecture series.A reception will follow in the Founders Memorial Garden.Parking available in the Hull and Wray Street lots.News release: http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/uga-art-and-infrastructure-lecture-to-feature-international-architect-yu/  College of Environment & Design