Research Fields:
History and Theory of Modern Architecture
Research Profile:
WANG Jun-Yang is a professor of architecture whose research focuses on theory of architecture and history of modern architecture. His writings, ranging from reflections on tectonic discourses, architectural autonomy, urban theories, relationship between theory and practice, contemporary Chinese architectural practice, have been published widely in architectural journals and other publications in China and internationally. He is the Chinese translator of Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture by Kenneth Frampton. He is completing a translation draft of The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essay by Colin Rowe. And he is working on an anthology in architectural theory, history and criticism for the Chinese architectural students, to be published by Tongji University Press in both Chinese and English.
Grants and Awards:
Theory and History of Modern Architecture (Course No.：2010149)
Selected Readings in Architectural History and Theory (Course No.：2010277)
Publications：
Chinese translation of Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, China Architecture and Building Press, 2007
“CAMA: Memorandum of a Critical Agenda in Contemporary Chinese Architecture” in Notes on Critical Architecture: Praxis Reloaded, to be published by Ashgate in October 2015
Theory, History and Criticism: Selected Essays by Wang Jun-Yang (1), to be published by Tongji University Press in 2016
Reading Colin Rowe’s La Tourette: Selected Essays by Wang Jun-Yang (2), to be published by Tongji University Press in 2016
From the Tectonic Point of View: Selected Essays by Wang Jun-Yang (3), to be published by Tongji University Press in 2017