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Wilfried Wang

Professor

Email：wilfried.wang@tongji.edu.cn, wilfried.wang@hoidnwang.de

Research Direction: History of Architecture, Architectural Criticism

Disciplinary Team: Architectural Design II (Undergraduate), Architectural History and Theory

Personal Profile

Wilfried Wang, male, born in Hamburg, Germany, in May 1957, Professor, Changjiang Distinguished Scholar, Principal Investigator for the research project on the “Origins of the Picturesque”, funded by the Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University.

B.Sc. (First Class Honours, 1978) and M.Sc. (Distinction, 1981) in Architecture from Bartlett School, University College London; Research Fellow, Polytechnic of North London (1981-1984); Partner in SW Architects, London (1989-1995), co-founder of Hoidn Wang Partner, Berlin (since 2001), www.hoidnwang.de.

Taught at the North London Polytechnic (1981-1984); Bartlett School, University College London (1984-1986); Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (1986-2001); ETH Zurich (1994); The University of Texas at Austin (2001-2022); and the School of Architecture, University of Navarra.

Co-Editor of 9H Mgazine, London (1979-1986); Co-Director of the 9H Gallery, London (1985-1990); Director of the German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt (1995-2000); Architecture Advisor Deutschen Bank (1990-2000); member of the advisory board on art for architecture for the Federal Government of Germany; Chair of the Design Review Board City of Wismar (2000-2010); Chairman of the Schelling Architecture Foundation (2003-2021); member of the Design Review Board of Munich Airport (2007-2014); member of the Design Review Board of Ingolstadt (since 2018); member of the Conservation Advisory Board for Berlin Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (since 2018); member of the editorial advisory board of Perspectives in Architecture and Urban Design

Member of the Berlin Chamber of Architects; foreign member of Royal Swedish Academy of Arts; member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin; honorary member of the Ordem dos Arquitectos, Portugal; President of the International Committee of Architectural Critics CICA.

Lecturer at international schools of architecture and architectural museum; curator of architectural exhibitions; author of essays on contemporary architecture; author and editor of monographs and topographs; jury member of architectural competitions and awards.

Recipient of Students’ Outstanding Teachers Award from the architecture students at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (1991), honory doctorate from the Royal Technical College, Stockholm (2010); CICA Award for exhibition catalogues (2014, 2017).