PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Founded in 1983, the Division of Architecture is the core major among SAUP. It passed the National Architecture Education Accreditation and provided an undergraduate program in 1996. In the same year, it received the honor to recruit and conduct a graduate program of architecture design and theory. The Department obtained the first-level master's degree program of architecture in 2011 and a first-level doctoral degree program of architecture in 2018. The postdoctoral research station was also established in 2019. The Division of Architecture was selected as a national top-level undergraduate major in 2019. It was also conferred the title of national-level specialty and "Famous Brand Program of Guangdong Province." It has a gourp of eminent scholars such as Meng Jianmin, Fan Yue, Rao Xiaojun, Gong Weimin, He Chuan, Yuan Lei. Chen Jiawei is the current Head of the Department.

After the continuous cultivation for nearly 40 years, SAUP has become an influential and emergent architecture school in Southern China. SAUP has built a "Trinity" pedagogical system of human settlements and built environment, with the coordination of urban informatics research. The research platform of architecture division is led by the Guangdong Province and Shenzhen Key Laboratory,and a series of research teams with clear research directions and reasonable academic teams have been formed around the Benyuan Design Research Center led by Academician Jianmin Meng and the Smart City Research Institute led by Academician Renzhong Guo. The research platform covers various levels and secondary disciplines, which is conducive to interdisciplinary academic research.

CORE COURSES

Theory and Methodology of Human Settlements, The Frontiers of Modern Architecture, Chinese Architectural History and Theory, Introduction to Green Building, Theory of Urban Design, The Frontiers of Urban Informatics, Thesis Writing

CAREER PROSPECTS

Engaged in architectural research work, in the direction of architectural design and theory, architectural history and heritage protection, building technology and other directions to conduct theoretical research, scientific research and teaching with strong innovation and scientific research capabilities. After graduation, the students can work in research positions in universities, government agencies, and enterprises.

Consultation

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Email

Doreen.liu@szu.edu.cn

Introduction

Doreen Heng LIU, a Chinese architect born in Guangzhou, Distinguished Professor of Shenzhen University, Doctor of Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Founder and Principal of NODE Architecture & Urbanism (NODE). In 2004, LIU established her own design practice NODE in Hong Kong. With strong passion for both design practice and academic research, LIU’s interest is to focus on contemporary urbanism in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), especially through the lens of design, to explore the different conditions of urbanization, their impacts on specific locality and reflections on space of architecture and urban design today. LIU taught as Adjunct Associate Professor at School of Architecture, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Guest Professor at D-ARCH, ETH and Friedman Chair of Practice Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She was appointed as a Distinguished Professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Shenzhen University and directed The Greater Bay Area Innovation Design Lab since September 2020. The lab aims to become a world leading research and design platform, to address the global urban problems and explore possibilities through cross-disciplinary and cross-boundary research and design experiments. 

Email

yangxc@suz.edu.cn

Introduction

Xiaochun Yang, professor and doctoral advisor of the Department of urban and rural planning of Shenzhen University, obtained a Bachelor of architecture, a master of urban planning and design from Tsinghua University and a doctor of urban planning and design from Tongji University. He is now the vice president of the school of architecture and urban planning of Shenzhen University, the head of the Department of planning and the chief planner of the Institute of urban planning and design of Shenzhen University, He once worked in Shenzhen Urban Planning and Design Institute. The main research directions focus on Sustainable Urban Design of high-density cities in the south, urban design technology management and development control, urban and rural heritage protection and activation, etc. He also serves as director of China Urban Planning Society, member of Foreign Urban Planning Committee of China Urban Planning Society, and vice president of Shenzhen Urban Planning Association. Mr. Yang Xiaochun has presided over and participated in a number of National Natural Science Foundation and hundreds of planning, design and research work. The research and design projects in charge of or participated in have won the Huaxia Construction Science and technology award of the Ministry of housing and urban rural development, the honorary award of international regional urban design of the American Association of architects and many second and third prizes of national excellent planning and design; Lead students to win national and international design awards for many times; The research results have been published in urban planning, building & environment and other well-known academic journals at home and abroad.

Email

fubenchen@szu.edu.cn

Introduction

Benchen FU is a Professor and doctoral tutor at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University. He is a member of the council of the Architectural Society of China, a core member of the Shenzhen Huarao Institute of Carbon Neutral Technology for Building Environment committee, and the independent director of Xuhui Design Co., LTD.

He has presided over 17 scientific research tasks, including national key R&D program projects and National Natural Science Foundation projects. He has won 6 prizes, including the first prize in Huaxia Construction Science and Technology and the first prize in provincial science and technology progress. He has presided over more than 30 architectural projects, such as Dalian Gymnasium, Hasi Development Building, Zhengzhou Civic Activity Center, etc. He has won 12 awards, including the first prize in the National Excellent Engineering Survey and Design Industry, the WA China Architecture Award, and the Gold Award of Architectural Creation of the Architectural Society of China. He won the Young Architect Award of the Architectural Society of China and the Provincial Governor's Special Award.

His research focuses on scientific and educational architecture, computational design and construction industry-credit integration, spatial performance evaluation and project planning, environmental, and behavioural psychology, green and low-carbon engineering technology and other research directions.

Email

xiaojing.arch@szu.edu.cn

Introduction

Dr Jing Xiao works as a tenured assoiate professor, international PhD supervisor and associate director of Department of Architecture at Shenzhen University, China. He received a PhD in History and Theory of Architecture from the University of Nottingham. He is also the assistant editor of World Architectural Review. He receives membership from the varieties of academic associations, including the Royal Institute of British Architects, Architectural Humanities Research Association, the Architectural Academy of China, the Renaissance Society of America. His research focuses on western architectural theory, religious architecture and modern and contemporary urban history and heritage studies in South China. He has also secured about 9 research funds from various national bodies, including National Science Foundation and Guangdong Province Philosophy & Social Sciences Foundation Research Fund, as well as participating many international research funds, including Hong Kong Government Research Fund, and Harvard University Villa I Tatti/Getty Foundation. He participates in many international conferences as panel speaker, like RSA 2022, AHRA 2020 and EAUH 2018. Many of his research outputs have been issued by international publishers including Routledge, Bloomsbury, Springer and the Architecture and Building Press of China. He now works as journal reviewer for Journal of Architecture and Urban Design International.