Research fields and interests

• Urban study with a special attention to the watercourse infrastructure;

• Historical mapping of the urban transformation caused by the changing of watercourse system in Shanghai;

• The regeneration of urban public space in the waterfront area during the post-industrial time.

• Rural area regeneration in China.

Current position

• Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

• Academic coordinator, Sino-Spanish Campus, Tongji University

• Academic coordinator of master double degree program “Tongji-UPC”, “Tongji-Polimi”

Education background

• 2010 - 2014, Doctoral program in UPC Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona, director: Eduard Bru, dissertation “Model and Context in the Mediterranean Basin” receives the Excellent Doctoral Thesis from UPC.

• 2008 - 2010, Master program in Politecnico di Milano, graduate thesis supervisor: Remo Dorigati.

• 2003 - 2008, Graduate study in College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Major in Architecture, graduate project supervisor: Huang Yiru, Philip Feng Yuan, Li Xiangning.

Visiting scholar experience

• 07.2018 - 09.2018 Visiting scholar in Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales UNSW Sydney, Australia

• 01.2017 - 02.2017 Visiting scholar in Institute of Construction and Design Principles, Graz University of Technology, Austria

• 02.2017 - 03.2017 Visiting scholar in Department of Architecture, Pusan National University, Korea

Workshops

• International doctoral school “Future City and Architecture”, Tongji University, Shanghai, host tutor for the waterfront space session, 2016-2019

• Master workshop “Transforming the Urban Core: Urban design for Coexistence in Sao Paulo”, Tongji University, Sao Paulo & Shanghai, tutors: Placido Gonzalez Martinez, Tian Weijia, 2016-2017

• Master joint workshop “Regeneration of Traditional Vernacular Settlement and Housing”, Tongji University & IUAV, Linxia Muslim Autonomous Region, tutors: Zhang Jianlong, Yu Yong, Tian Weijia, Margherita Turvani, Laura Fregolent, Matteo Dario Paolucci, 2016-2017

• Master joint workshop “Regeneration of Traditional Vernacular Settlement and Architecture”, Tongji University & IUAV, Guizhou Maogong Dong Minority Autonomous Region, tutors: Zhang Jianlong, Tian Weijia, Margherita Turvani, Matteo Dario Paolucci, 2017-2018

• Master joint workshop “Regeneration of Traditional Vernacular Settlement and Architecture”, Tongji University & IUAV, Guizhou Maogong Dong Minority Autonomous Region, tutors: Zhang Jianlong, Tian Weijia, Margherita Turvani, Matteo Dario Paolucci, 2017-2018

Publication

1. Wu Gang, Tian Weijia, West Scenery East Prospective, 2019 Tongji University Art Practice in Italy, 2019, ISBN 9787560889030

2. Zhao Weiyan, Tian Weijia, Yin Jia, Beyond the Picturesque, Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 2017, ISBN 978558603310

3. LEE Inhee, WOO Shinkoo, Lawrence B.KIM, CHUNG Jaehoon, KIM Yoonjeong, PANG Lei, TIAN Weijia, FUJI Kanako, Leaning from Urban Elements and Patterns: Exploring and Documenting Busan, ISBN 9791185344317

Articles

1. Tian Weijia, Wan Qirui, Zhang Yingle, Back to the Basics: The Fundamental Design Education of Architecture in Spain，Architectural Journal, 2019(3): 41-50

2. Tian Weijia, Placido Gonzalez Martinez, Architecture Set: Everyday-life Prepositions: Context in Dialogue of Spanish and Shanghai Architectural Practices, Time + Architecture, 2018(2): 64-69

3. Tian Weijia, Xiao Xiao, The explicitness of the recessive gene: the spatial impact from the water network transformation in the process of urban regeneration, Time + Architecture, 2017(4): 30-35

4. Song Wei, Tian Weijia, Unexpectedness and Inevitability - Works and Characteristics of RCR Architects, Architectural Journal, 2017(4): 76-81

5. Tian Weijia, Psycho-geographical Map and Spatial Perception - two teaching experiments in elementary design program，New Architecture, 2016, 169 (6): 63-67

6. Tian Weijia, Song Wei, Intercontext The regional characteristic of architecture in Mediterranean Basin, Time + Architecture, 2016, 149 (3): 58-63

7. Song Wei, Tian Weijia, Flowing Wave - The New Scenario of Europe Based Young Architects and Scholars, Time + Architecture, 2016, 147 (1): 23-27

8. Tian Weijia, Dong Bijing, Yin Jia, The Creative Study of Plastic Art - the internationalization development of the practical course on plastic art, China Architecture and Building Press, Kunming, 2015

9. Yang Guang, Tian Weijia, The Privatization of the Landscape Resource in Waterfront Area, Architecture and Culture, 2015,133 (4): 105-107

10. Tian W., Yang G., The Deindustrialization of the Port Area in Mediterranean Coastal Cities: case studies on Genoa, Marseilles and Barcelona, 7th Conference of International Forum on Urbanism, Ifou 2013, Tainan, Taiwan China, 2013.10.7-10.11

11. Weijia Tian, Huan Wu, Wei Song, Urban Panorama Tourism Planning - A View from River Tour Course in Post-Three Gorges Era, ARA Journal of Tourism Research, 2011, Vol.3 No.2: 135-143

12. Tian Weijia, Lu Li, Public Participation in Urban Planning, Journal of Chongqing Jianzhu University, 2007, 29(3): 41-44

Research funds

1. National Nature Science Fund of China, “Spatial impact of activity in Waterfront Area of Shanghai”, Code 51508387, 200.000 RMB, 01.2016 - 12.2018