Professor LÜ Junhua

LÜ Junhua is a senior member of the faculty of Urban Planning and Design. She specializes in housing design, new residential area planning, and planning for the renewal of old urban neighborhoods. She was born in Sheng Xian, Zhejiang Province, in 1932.
Academic Experience and Positions
1953	Completed undergraduate program in Architecture at Southeast University, Nanjing.
1956	Completed graduate program in City Planning at Tsinghua University, Beijing; began career in teaching, research and practice of architecture and city planning at Tsinghua University, including a five-year professional appointment at the Tsinghua University Architectural Design Institute from 1978 to 1983.
1988-present	Full Professorship at Tsinghua University; also Senior Architect in the Tsinghua University Architectural Design Institute and Senior Planner in the Tsinghua University City Planning Institute.
1990-present	Doctoral Advisor.
Professional Affiliations
1990-present	Member, Chinese Society of Architects' Committee on Human Living Environments.
1992-present	Member, National Housing Design Network's Board of Directors.
1993-present	Member, Project Evaluation Committee for Ministry of Construction Experimental Housing Estates Program.
International Exchanges
1982	Visiting Lecturer at Baghdad University of Science and Technology, Iraq.
1987-1988	Visiting Scholar at the Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong.
1988	Visiting Lecturer, the Paris I and VI Schools of Architecture, France; and at Oxford Polytechnic, United Kingdom.
1993	Visiting Lecturer, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; and at the University of Trondheim, Norway.
1994	Visiting Lecturer, McGill University School of Architecture, Montreal.

Main Research Directions

During the 1990s, she has led her research group in a new direction: the study of housing and neighborhood redevelopment in the historic old cities of Beijing and Quanzhou. This research has been supported by the National Higher Education Doctoral Research Fund and by the Ministry of Construction in its Eighth and Ninth Five-Year Plans. This work has also been the subject of collaboration with a number of universities outside China, including the University of Trondheim in Norway; McGill University and the University of British Columbia in Canada; University of Technology, Sydney, in Australia; and Paris-Villemin School of Architecture in France. This subject has served as the focus for Professor Lü's practical project planning, course teaching, graduate student advising, academic exchanges, and publishing of research.

Current Projects

1. Research and Planning for the Feng Sheng Renewal Area in Beijing's Old City (1996-1998);
2. Research and Planning for the Preservation of Vernacular Housing in the Kai Yuan Temple Neighborhood of Quanzhou's Old City (1998-);
3. Editing of Chinese Modern Urban Housing, a bilingual Chinese-English monograph to be published jointly with Harvard University (1997-1999);
4. Editing of Planning for the Redevelopment of the Old District of Nanchizi in Beijing, a joint bilingual publication with the University of Trondheim, McGill University, University of Technology, Sydney, and Paris-Villemin School of Architecture (1997-1999).
5. Editing and writing for a collection of dissertations on the redevelopment of Beijing's Old and Dilapidated Housing (1998-).

Selected Publications

1. "Guest Editorial: The Housing Situation in the People's Republic of China." International Journal for Development Technology Volume 1 (1983), pp. 255-257.
2. "Terrace Garden House Design" The Architect, (in Chinese) "̨½×ʽ»¨Ô°×¡Õ¬ÏµÁÐÉè¼Æ," ½¨Öþʦ Issue No.23 (1985), pp. 59-72.
3. "Diversity in Housing Design" The Modern Chinese Architect, (in Chinese) "סլÉè¼Æ¶àÑù»¯," µ±´úÖйú½¨Öþʦ I (1988), pp. 78-80.
4. "Towards New Urban Housing Design". Habitat International Volume 15, Number 3 (1991), pp. 125-131.
5. "Beijing's Old and Dilapidated Housing Renewal (Phase I)." Building in China Volume 6, Number 3-4 (June 1993).
6. "Beijing's Old and Dilapidated Housing Renewal (Parts I-IV)" (Part I reprinted from Building in China, above) are published as a series in China City Planning Review, Volume 9 (1993), Number 3 (September), pp. 27-36; and Number 4 (December), pp. 28-40; and Volume 10 (1994), Number 1 (March), pp. 42-54; and Number 2 (June), pp. 34-46.
7. "Renewal of English and American Cities," World Architecture, (in Chinese) "Ó¢¡¢ÃÀµÄ³ÇÊиüÐÂ," ÊÀ½ç½¨Öþ 9502ÆÚ(1995), pp.12-16.
8. "Beijing's Old and Dilapidated Housing Renewal" in Cities, Volume 14, No.2 (1997), pp. 59-69.

Last updated: 12/12/1998