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A/PROF JIANFEI ZHU



Contact Details

Organization: Architecture, Building and Planning
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Work: 47052
Room: 129
Building: Architecture And Planning Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Modern Chinese/Asian Cities and Issues of the Metropolis Space, Experience, Subjectivity, Politics China (excludes SARs and Taiwan Province), Chinese Asia (includes Mongolia), Hong Kong (SAR of China), Japan and the Koreas, Singapore
Architecture of Modern China History, Theory, Criticisim China (excludes SARs and Taiwan Province), Chinese Asia (includes Mongolia), Australia, Japan, United States of America
Dynastic/Imperial Beijing and Traditional Chinese Cities Space, Form, Power and Society China (excludes SARs and Taiwan Province)
Social & Formal History of Beijing Chinese Asia (includes Mongolia)
Architectural Criticisim between China, Asia and the West Chinese Asia (includes Mongolia), United States of America, Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom University College London Exchange, Research
China Tongji University Exchange

Languages

Languages

Language Proficiency
Mandarin Speak, Read & Write
English Speak, Read & Write

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Engineering (Architecture) University of Tianjin 31-Dec-1985
Doctor of Philosophy University College London 01-Jan-1994

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Associate Graduate Center of Architecture, Peking University, Beijing Visiting Professor of Architecture 01-Aug-2002 01-Dec-2002
Associate T+A: Time+Architecture, Tongji University, Shanghai Guest Editor-in-Chief 10-Dec-2005 01-Oct-2006
Member Editorial Committee, T+A: Time+Architecture, Tongji University, Shanghai International Member 15-Sep-2006 15-Dec-2009
Associate School of Architecture, Tianjin University, Tianjin Guest Associate Professor 01-Jul-1998
Member City: analysis of urban trends, London Associate Editor 01-Jul-1994

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Edward Clarence Dyason Universitas 21 Fellowship 01-Jan-2002

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Books

Book Chapters

  • Geometries of Life and Formlessness: The Theoretical Legacies of Historical Beijing
    Year: 2009
    Book: Eco-Urbanity: Towards Well-Mannered Built Environments
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Beijing: Future City
    Year: 2008
    Book: China Design Now
    Publisher: V&A Publishing
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  • Denton Corker Marshall in China             
    Year: 2008
    Book: Non Fictional Narratives: Denton Corker Marshall
    Publisher: Birkhauser
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • A Space of the State: Beijing 1949-59
    Year: 2007
    Book: The Politics of Making
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • China as a Global Site in a critical geography of design
    Year: 2007
    Book: Critical Architecture
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Critical dialogue: China and the West
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Journal of Architecture
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 199-207
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  • Ershi pian Gaodi. Twenty Plateaus: an historical landscape of modern architecture in mainland China
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Avant-Garde Today
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 103-114
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  • Twenty Plateaus: A Genealogy of Style and Design Positions of Modern Architecture in Mainland China
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Time + Architecture
    Volume: 97
    Page numbers: 16-21
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  • Wenti yu zhuyi: Problems and Theories 1
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Domus
    Volume: 007
    Page numbers: 128-133
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  • Wenti yu zhuyi: Problems and Theories 2
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Domus
    Volume: 008
    Page numbers: 132-135
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Beijing: A Dialogue between Imperial Legacy and Hyper-Modernism
    Year: 2006
    Book: Totalstadt. Beijing Case
    Publisher: Verlag Walther Konig
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Journal Articles

  • Guojihua de Shidai Jianzhu
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Time + Architecture
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 145-146
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  • Piping de Yanhua: Zhongguo yu Xifang de Jiaoliu
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Time + Architecture
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 56-61
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  • Porous Borders
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Volume
    Volume: 8: Ubiquitous China
    Page numbers: 52-54
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Criticality in between China and the West
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The Journal of Architecture
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 479-498
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  • Imperiales Peking und Hypermoderne
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Stadt Bauwelt
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 12-21
    Publisher: Bauverlag BV GmbH(Berlin)
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Creative Works

  • Twenty Plateaus
    Year: 2005
    Book/Anthology/Journal/Catalogue Title: The First Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture
    Date from: 10-Dec-2005
    Date to: 10-Mar-2006
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Chinese Spatial Strategies: Imperial Beijing 1420-1911
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Modernization: Yung Ho Chang and his Atelier FCJZ in a large historical context
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Architect
    Volume: 108
    Page numbers: 14-17
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Politics into culture: historical formation of the national style in the Nanjing decade (1927-1937)
    Year: 2003
    Book: Research on China's Modern Architectural Academia
    Publisher: China Architecture & Building Press(Beijing)
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  • Vers un Moderne Chinois: les Grands Courants Architecturaux dans la Chine Contemporaine Depuis 1976
    Year: 2003
    Book: Alors, la Chine?
    Publisher: Centre Pompidou(Paris)
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Journal Articles

  • Bentham, Foucault, Hanfei, Ming-Qing Beijing: power and space in a cross-cultural perspective
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Time + Architecture
    Volume: 70
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 104-109
    Publisher: Tongji University Press
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A thousand plateaus: mapping architectural positions in contemporary China
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Design + research: project based research in architecture. Second international conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia Melbourne
    Conference Publication: Design + research: project based research in architecture. Second international conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia Melbourne 28-30 September 2003
    Page numbers: 1-12
    Publisher: Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Human space, China 1990
    Year: 2002
    Book: Projects Report
    Publisher: Zhongguo Jianzhu Gongre Chubanshe(Beijing)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Book Review: Tan Kik Meng (ed), Asian Architects, volume 1
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Fabrications
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 86-87
    Publisher: The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand(Melbourne)
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