Prof. ZHU, Jingxiang (朱競翔)

Associate Professor

Rm. 403, Lee Shau Kee Architecture Building, CUHK

Introduction

Zhu Jingxiang is Associate Professor of the School of Architecture, CUHK. His research focuses on new spatial structures, lightweight building systems and sustainable building technologies.

Zhu has completed dozens of built projects in Mainland China and Kenya, and has won the China Innovator of the Year Award in Architecture from The Wall Street Journal in 2012, First Prize of Local Academia in the Hong Kong Construction Industry Council Innovation Award 2015, Technique Exploration Award and Youth Explorer Finalist Award in the 4th China Architecture Media Awards 2016. He also designed Dou Pavilion for China’s national pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale 2016.

Advised Theses

LEUNG Ka Ki, Kaka, “From Bond to Living-fabric,” 2016-17

NAN Tian, “Refinding Lost Courtyard: Elderly Community Centre and Nursing Home Design for Northern China,” 2014-15

LAM Pui Yi, Cherry, “A Campus for the Third Age,” 2013-14

CHONG, Thomas, “Primitive Choices and Sustainable Architecture,” 2012-13

SO Hei Man, “MTR Neighbourhood: Alternative Design for a Community Complex,” 2012-13

TANG Nga Chi, Cathy, “Container and Containing: Nature of Water in Architectural World,” 2012-13