DEPT OF ARCHITECTURE



Researcher : Bobbette AW

Project Title:Architecture and Adaptation
Investigator(s):Bobbette AW
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:11/2012




Researcher : Bolchover JP

Project Title:Community Project Workshop -Tongjiang Primary School in Shicheng County, JiangXi Province
Investigator(s):Bolchover JP, Lin CJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:World Vision - General Award
Start Date:12/2009


Project Title:Community Project Workshop - Huaji Sustainable School Project
Investigator(s):Bolchover JP, Lin CJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Power of Love - General Award
Start Date:01/2010


Project Title:Incremental Urbanism: Ulaanbaatar's Ger Settlements
Investigator(s):Bolchover JP
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:09/2015


Project Title:Fear and Love
Investigator(s):Bolchover JP
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:The Design Museum
Start Date:06/2016


Project Title:Design Research into Ulaanbaatar's Ger Districts
Investigator(s):Bolchover JP
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Fondation OYUN
Start Date:09/2016


Project Title:Rural Urban Framework: RIBA Emerging Architecture Prize; Rural Urban Framework: RIBA Emerging Architecture Prize
Investigator(s):Bolchover JP
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2016
Completion Date:11/2016


List of Research Outputs

Bolchover J.P. and Lin C.J., “Rural Urban Framework: Dorfliche Urbanisierung in China” in Stadtland: Der neue Rurbanismus , ARCH +. Berlin, IBA Thuringen, 2017, 228: pp. 68-77.
Bolchover J.P. and Lin C.J., “Grey Matter: RUF’s low-budget building in rural China is a device for healing”, Architectural Review. UK, 2016, vol. 1435: 104-110.
Bolchover J.P. and Lin C.J., “Rural Urban Framework: Angdong Hospital”, Lotus International. 2016, vol. 160: pp. 8-15.
Bolchover J.P. and Lin C.J., AR Healthcare 2016, Commended, The Architectural Review. 2016.
Bolchover J.P., Lin C.J. and Lange C., In: Joshua Bolchover, Christiane Lange, John Lin, Designing the Rural: A Global Countryside in Flux. London, Wiley, 2016, 86.
Bolchover J.P., Rural Urban Framework, SCARCITY. 2016.
Bolchover J.P., Settling the Nomads, Architectural Design: Designing the Rural: A Global Countryside in Flux. London, Wiley, 2016, 86: 20-27.
Bolchover J.P., Settling the Nomads, Talks About Architecture "TALKS about architecture is an ongoing international lecture-series that offers a podium to emerging architects." . 2016.
Bolchover J.P. and Lin C.J., The RIBA International Prize for Emerging Architect 2016, The Royal Institute of British Architects. 2016.


Researcher : Cate Christ MA

Project Title:Hong Kong Stair Archive: Documenting the walkable city
Investigator(s):Cate Christ MA
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:01/2015




Researcher : Chan YLJ

List of Research Outputs

Mak W.S., Tang D.S.W. and Chan Y.L.J., “Hong Kong Platforms: Towards a Sustainable City” - Merit Award from the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects (HKILA) Design Awards 2016 – Landscape Research Category, Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects. 2016.


Researcher : Chang WPH

List of Research Outputs

Chang W.P.H., From Urban Action to E-pathy City, In: Maria Tam, Wallace Chang, Sidney Cheung, Imagining the Future: Community Innovation and Social Resilience in Asia. 2017.
Chang W.P.H., Kai Tak River--From Human Landscape to E-pathy City , In: Prof. NG Mee Kam, the 10th Conference of the Pacific Rim Community Design Network: AGENCY AND RESILIENCE, CUHK. 2016.
Chang W.P.H., Together We Plan: A Reflection on the East Kowloon Kai Tak Development Project, 共構、共建、共用──反思啓德的公民共議過程, In: The Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Twenty-First Century Bimonthly. 二十一世紀, Hong Kong, The Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of, 2017, 161: 111-118.


Researcher : Cho CM

List of Research Outputs

Pryor M.R. and Cho C.M., In: Pryor, M.R. and Cho, J.C.M, CCHU9001 Designs on the Future Sustainability of the Built Environment 2016. Hong Kong, Division of Landscape Architecture, HKU, 2016, 136.


Researcher : Chu CL

Project Title:Speculative Urbanism: Modernist Planning and Housing Practices in Colonial Hong Kong, 1912-1939
Investigator(s):Chu CL
Department:Urban Planning & Design
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:01/2015


Project Title:Legitimating Tradition; Communities of Experts: Emergent Heritage Practices and the Reconfiguration of Power-Knowledge
Investigator(s):Chu CL
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2016


Project Title:Shaping a New Moral Topography: Emergent Roles of Landscape Design in the Planning of Chinese Cities, 1914-1937
Investigator(s):Chu CL
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2017


List of Research Outputs

Chu C.L., Afterword (Housing Asia 2020), In: Christiane Lange, Christian J. Lange, Eunice Seng, Housing Asia 2020: Perspectives & Responses. Hong Kong, Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, 2017, 39.
Chu C.L., Narrating the Mall City, In: Stefan Al, Mall City: Hong Kong's Dreamworlds of Consumption. Hong Kong; Honolulu, Hong Kong University Press; University of Hawaii Press, 2016, 82-91.
Chu C.L., Remaking City Futures: Urban Regeneration and Conservation as Worlding Practices, Spaces in Transition: Globalisation, Transnationalism and Urban Change in the Asia-pacific. Melbourne, Australia, 2016.


Researcher : Close J

Project Title:World Renewable Energy Congress IX and Exhibition (WREC-IX) PV Powered Biological Wastewater Treatment for Urban & Rural Applications
Investigator(s):Close J
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:08/2006




Researcher : Du J

List of Research Outputs

Du J., "Living on the Water- Fishing Communities in Southern Hong Kong", Mobile Living Museum, Chai Wan Youth Square, Hong Kong, In: Juan Du et al., 2016.
Du J., Housing of Last Resort, Asian Executive Seminar organized by Pacific Pension & Investment Institute, San Francisco. 2016.
Du J., How to understand urban villages and Nantou Ancient City?, UABB Do Course at Urban Village- Nantou Research and Creative Practice Class. Organized by 2017 Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture . 2017.
Du J., Intervention into Hong Kong’s Urban Informality, In: Liu Wenbao, Special Issue on Modernology Research in China, Urban Flux. Tianjin University Press, 2016.
Du J., Place Specific Designs for Shenzhen’s Urban Villages, In: Studio X Beijing, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Housing the Majority: Baishizhou Urban Village Lecture Series. 2016.
Du J., Poverty and Housing in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Study Abroad Program. Organized by Common Purpose Student Experiences . 2017.
Du J., Poverty in Hong Kong, Open House. Organized by Harbour School, Hong Kong. 2017.
Du J., Urban Villages and the Special Economic Zone -How Formal Planning and Informal Development Generated the Exceptional Urbanism of Shenzhen? , 城中村与经济特区 -公共规划和自发建设何以造成深圳独特的城市面貌, In: Dai Chun, Shenzhen Contemporary Architecture 2000-2015. Tongji University Press, 2017.


Researcher : Echeverri N

List of Research Outputs

Valin I.A. and Echeverri N., Cities within the City, density in the territory: public housing estates and the transformation of Hong Kong, MONU. Rotterdam, 2017, 26 "Decentralized Urbanism": 96-103.


Researcher : Erdman DCM

Project Title:The Open City; Co-Chair of "Design+Building in The Open City"/Poster Presentation: Altered (e) States
Investigator(s):Erdman DCM
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2014


Project Title:Final Master of Architecture Reviews and Undergraduate Thesis Reviews; altered (e)states
Investigator(s):Erdman DCM
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2015




Researcher : Ganesan S

Project Title:Sixth International Conference on Urban Form New Urbanism in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Ganesan S
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/1999


Project Title:Current foreign debt crisis in China: implications for construction technology transfer in Shanghai
Investigator(s):Ganesan S, Zhou Q
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Low Budget High Impact Programme
Start Date:11/2000


Project Title:The 2nd International Conference of the CIB Task Group 29 (TG29) ON Construction in Developing Countries Does Sub-contracting Promote Technology Transfer (TT) in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Sri Lanka
Investigator(s):Ganesan S
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2000


Project Title:ARCC 2001 Architectural Research Centers Consortium Spring Research Conference Sustainable Urban Design Guidelines for Asian Cities
Investigator(s):Ganesan S
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2001


Project Title:32nd Annual Conference of Environmental Design Research Association 1997 Asian Crisis; Implications for Urban Design and Construction
Investigator(s):Ganesan S
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2001


Project Title:Environmental Design Research Association Conference 2003 Daytime Heat Island Effect in Residential Developments in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Ganesan S
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2003




Researcher : Howe AS

Project Title:Architectural investigation through digital video
Investigator(s):Howe AS
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Leung Kau Kui Research and Teaching Endowment Fund - Teaching Grants
Start Date:01/2002




Researcher : Jia B

Project Title:high dense residential complex and its impacts on the communication pattern
Investigator(s):Jia B
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:11/2005


Project Title:SUSTAINABLE HOUSING 2016 - International Conference on Sustainable Housing Planning, Management and Usability; An investigation on characters of long lasting buildings in south China
Investigator(s):Jia B
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2016
Completion Date:11/2016




Researcher : Jiang B

Project Title:Urban Soundscapes: The Effect of Auditory and Visual Stimulations on Mood
Investigator(s):Jiang B, Webster CJ, Pryor MR
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2015


Project Title:Using driving simulation technology to measure impacts of freeway green landscapes on drivers' mental fatigue, stress, and negative mood
Investigator(s):Jiang B
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Early Career Scheme (ECS)
Start Date:08/2016


Project Title:Annual Conference of Educators in Landscape Architecture (USA); Creating mentally restorative landscape for sweatshop workers: a participatory research/Complexity and mismatch: comparing perception of acoustic and visual environments in the highdensity city
Investigator(s):Jiang B
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2017
Completion Date:05/2017


List of Research Outputs

Jiang B., Healthy City, Healthy Landscape, A speech invited by the South-West University in China. 2016.
Jiang B., 2016 YuanYe International Design Competition Award, Excellent Teacher Award, YuanYe International Design Competition Committee. 2017.
Jiang B., 2016 YuanYe International Design Competition Award, First Prize , YuanYe International Design Competition Committee. 2016.
Jiang B., Co-chair of the 2017 CELA Annual Conference (Research and Methods track), editorship of conference papers and proceedings, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA in USA). 2017.
Jiang B., Wang H.Q., Pryor M.R., Bao F.Y., Sullivan W.C. and Webster C.J., Complexity and mismatch: Comparing perception of acoustic and visual environments in the high-density city, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA, USA) 2017 Annual Conference. 2017.
Jiang B., Bao F.Y., Wang H.Q., Pryor M.R. and Webster C.J., Creating mentally restorative landscape for sweatshop workers: a participatory research., Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA in USA) 2017 Annual Conference. 2017.
Jiang B., Li L. and Zhang T., Exploring Relationship between Urban Spatial Elements and Public Health: Using ‘the Image Of City’ Theory as A Research Framework, 論城市空間要素與大眾健康的關係:以城市意象理論為研究框架, In: Fan Zhang, Shanghai Urban Planning Review. 上海城市規劃, Shanghai, Shanghai Urban Planing Review Editorial Dept., 2017, 134: 63-68.
Jiang B., Healthy City, Healthy Landscape:Promoting Stress Recovery through Changing Urban Environment, Annual International Forum by Hong Kong Association of Therapeutic Horticulture. 2016.
Jiang B. and Tang D.S.W., Public Health and the illegal E-waste industry in China—alternative visions from urban planning and landscape design., 2017 Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers. 2017.
Jiang B., Deal B., Pan H.Z., Larsen L., Hsieh C.H., Chang C.Y. and Sullivan W.C., Remotely-sensed imagery vs. eye-level photography: Evaluating associations among measurements of tree cover density, Landscape and Urban Planning. Elsevier, 2017, 157: 270-281.
Jiang B., Research Progress in HKU: Examing the Relationship between Built Environments and Human Health in the Highly Dense City, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA in USA) 2017 Annual Conference. 2017.
Jiang B., Research for Design: Research on Healthy Urban Environment, International Academic Lecture. Guangzhou, South China University of Technology, 2016.
Sullivan W.C., Chang C.Y., Jiang B. and Li D.Y., Co-organizer of an academic workshop: Healthy Landscape Workshop, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA in USA) 2017 Annual Conference. 2017.


Researcher : Karakiewicz JA

Project Title:Exploring the dimensions of urban densities
Investigator(s):Karakiewicz JA
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Low Budget High Impact Programme
Start Date:11/2000




Researcher : Kee TYC

Project Title:Assessing Community Planning in Hong Kong: An Analysis of the Infrastructural Model of West Island Line
Investigator(s):Kee TYC
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:06/2014




Researcher : Kirchhoff UN

List of Research Outputs

Kirchhoff U.N., Beam Plus Platinum, In: BEAM Society Limited, BEAM Society Limited. 2017.


Researcher : Kvan T

Project Title:KCRC Linear City Research Project
Investigator(s):Kvan T
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) - General Award
Start Date:01/2004




Researcher : Lange C

List of Research Outputs

Bolchover J.P., Lin C.J. and Lange C., In: Joshua Bolchover, Christiane Lange, John Lin, Designing the Rural: A Global Countryside in Flux. London, Wiley, 2016, 86.
Lange C., "Publishing in Architecture", Locus Design Forum in Seoul, Korea-China-Japan Design Forum. 2016.
Lange C., Ecke Edge Angle, Ecke Edge Angle. Zurich, gta Verlag, 2016, 29, Ecke: 180.
Seng M.F.E., Lange C.J. and Lange C., In: Christiiane Lange, Christian Lang and Eunice Seng, Housing Asia 2020. Hong Kong, HKU Department of Architecture, 2017.


Researcher : Lange CJ

List of Research Outputs

Seng M.F.E., Lange C.J. and Lange C., In: Christiiane Lange, Christian Lang and Eunice Seng, Housing Asia 2020. Hong Kong, HKU Department of Architecture, 2017.


Researcher : Lau SSY

Project Title:Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award 2011-12
Investigator(s):Lau SSY
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award
Start Date:01/2013




Researcher : Lee ALC

List of Research Outputs

Lee A.L.C., The Cross road of three places, Southern California Institute of Architects(Sci-Arc) Educational Leadership Forum. 2016.


Researcher : Lee HY

Project Title:Asian markets: food, form and culture
Investigator(s):Lee HY, DiStefano LD
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Funding for New Staff
Start Date:03/2004


Project Title:Cultural rehabilitation of archaic industrial buildings
Investigator(s):Lee HY, Wang J, Lau SSY
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:04/2009


Project Title:Cultural Rehabilitation of Archaic Industrial Buildings: Case study of Shanghai
Investigator(s):Lee HY, Chan RCK, Lau SSY
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2010




Researcher : Liang Z

List of Research Outputs

Liang Z., Beyond Visual Mundanity: Building the Workers’ New Village in the 1950s Shanghai, Inheriting the City: Advancing Understandings of Urban Heritage. 2016.
Liang Z., From Village for Commoners To Workers' New Village--the Continual Civilising Mission of Shanghai's Public Housing, 1927-1951, 從平民村到工人新村--上海公營住宅延續的文明教化使命, 1927-1951年, Time + Architecture. 時代建築, Shanghai, Time + Architecture, 2017, 2: 30-35.


Researcher : Lin CJ

Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Architecture)
Investigator(s):Lin CJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2013-14
Investigator(s):Lin CJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Start Date:12/2014


Project Title:Cultural Identity, Baojing County, Hunan
Investigator(s):Lin CJ, Bolchover JP
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Institute for Integrated Rural Development, Hong Kong
Start Date:12/2015


Project Title:Orphanage Design in China
Investigator(s):Lin CJ, Bolchover JP
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Sowers Actions
Start Date:05/2016


Project Title:Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World Exhibition; City of Nomads
Investigator(s):Lin CJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2016


List of Research Outputs

Bolchover J.P. and Lin C.J., “Rural Urban Framework: Dorfliche Urbanisierung in China” in Stadtland: Der neue Rurbanismus , ARCH +. Berlin, IBA Thuringen, 2017, 228: pp. 68-77.
Bolchover J.P. and Lin C.J., “Grey Matter: RUF’s low-budget building in rural China is a device for healing”, Architectural Review. UK, 2016, vol. 1435: 104-110.
Bolchover J.P. and Lin C.J., “Rural Urban Framework: Angdong Hospital”, Lotus International. 2016, vol. 160: pp. 8-15.
Bolchover J.P. and Lin C.J., AR Healthcare 2016, Commended, The Architectural Review. 2016.
Bolchover J.P., Lin C.J. and Lange C., In: Joshua Bolchover, Christiane Lange, John Lin, Designing the Rural: A Global Countryside in Flux. London, Wiley, 2016, 86.
Bolchover J.P. and Lin C.J., The RIBA International Prize for Emerging Architect 2016, The Royal Institute of British Architects. 2016.


Researcher : Lin JCH

Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Architecture)
Investigator(s):Lin CJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:01/2014


Project Title:Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2013-14
Investigator(s):Lin CJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Start Date:12/2014


Project Title:Cultural Identity, Baojing County, Hunan
Investigator(s):Lin CJ, Bolchover JP
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Institute for Integrated Rural Development, Hong Kong
Start Date:12/2015


Project Title:Orphanage Design in China
Investigator(s):Lin CJ, Bolchover JP
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Sowers Actions
Start Date:05/2016


Project Title:Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World Exhibition; City of Nomads
Investigator(s):Lin CJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:11/2016


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Lu X

List of Research Outputs

Lu X., From Miniature to Synchroniser: An ontology of small urban spaces in Hong Kong, “Sharing City” international symposium at National University of Singapore. 2017.
Lu X., Valin I.A. and Trumpf S.E., Interstitial Hong Kong, 间隙香港, In: Kongjian Yu, LAF: Landscape Architecture Frontiers. 景观设计学, 2017, 5:3: 121-131.
Lu X., Interstitial Hong Kong, “Small is Meaningful” Workshop, Design Trust Futures Studio programme. 2017.
Lu X., Landscape Architecture Frontiers. 景观设计学, Beijing, China, Higher Education Press and Peking University Press, 2017.
Lu X., Risk Ecology, Harvard Global Institute (HGI) Environment Initiative Faculty Workshop. 2016.
Lu X., Solo Exhibition "Crossing Kazakhstan: The Monumentality of Linear Landscape", Harvard University Center for Government and International Studies. 2016.


Researcher : Lung DPY

Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Architecture)
Investigator(s):Lung DPY
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:11/2007




Researcher : Maing MJ

Project Title:Building Envelope Performance Design and Construction: Application of sustainability principles to building envelope design for public housing in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Maing MJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:08/2016


Project Title:The Urban Microclimate: A numerical model of urban thermal environment in different building densities
Investigator(s):Maing MJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Small Equipment Grant
Start Date:06/2017


List of Research Outputs

Lai A., Maing M.J. and Ng E., Feasibility Study on using Sunlit View Factor to Model Outdoor Thermal Comfort: A case study in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, PLEA 2016 - Cities Buildings People: Towards Regenerative Environments. 2016.
Lai A., Maing M.J. and Ng E., Modelling the urban radiant fluxes using view factors, PLEA 2016 - Cities Buildings People: Towards Regenerative Environments. 2016.
Lai A., Maing M.J. and Ng E., Observational studies of mean radiant temperature across different outdoor spaces under shaded conditions in densely built environment, Building and Environment. Elsevier, 2016, 114: 397.
Maing M.J., Building Envelopes and their Impact on our Urban Thermal Environment, World Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2017 Hong Kong. 2017.


Researcher : Mak WS

Project Title:CCTDG- The development of the Common Core course "Shaping the Landscape: A Quest For Harmony Between Nature and the City"
Investigator(s):Mak WS
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Teaching Development Grants
Start Date:01/2011


Project Title:TDG for 4-Year UC - BALS : Capstone Learning Experience in the Final Year Design Studio
Investigator(s):Mak WS
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Teaching Development Grants
Start Date:12/2011


List of Research Outputs

Mak W.S., "Experiencing Landscape Architecture in Hong Kong", Career Discovery in Architecture 2016, 2016.
Mak W.S., Tang D.S.W. and Chan Y.L.J., “Hong Kong Platforms: Towards a Sustainable City” - Merit Award from the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects (HKILA) Design Awards 2016 – Landscape Research Category, Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects. 2016.


Researcher : Mc Kee DC

Project Title:Cities, Buildings, People: Towards Regenerative Environments; High-Rise Residential Building Enclosure: Adaptive Strategies for Hong Kong's Projecting Bay Windows
Investigator(s):Mc Kee DC
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2016
Completion Date:07/2016


List of Research Outputs

Mc Kee D.C., High-Rise Residential Building Enclosure, In: Pablo La Roche Marc Schiler Margot McDonald, Passive Low Energy Architecture 2016 Conference. Passive Low Energy Architecture, 2016, 32nd International Conference.
Mc Kee D.C., Lessons from the Countryside: Sustainable Environmental Design Strategies for Rural Sichuan Province, Sustainable Rural Development under the One Belt One Road Initiative. 2017.


Researcher : Melbourne SJ

Project Title:Yangon Ecologies: Identifying landscape systems in peri-urban regions undergoing change
Investigator(s):Melbourne SJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:02/2016


Project Title:American Association of Geographers' Annual Meeting; Quantifying the green spaces absorbing urban growth in Yangon, Myanmar
Investigator(s):Melbourne SJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:04/2017
Completion Date:04/2017


List of Research Outputs

Melbourne S.J., Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong. 2017.
Melbourne S.J., Infrastructure appropriation at Yangon’s Pazundaung Creek [Cover photograph], Landscape Research. 2017, 42: 1.
Melbourne S.J., Quantifying the green spaces absorbing urban growth in Yangon, Myanmar, Association of American Geographers' Annual Meeting. 2017.
Melbourne S.J., Studio Yangon: Engaging Urban Change, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Annual Meeting. 2017.
Melbourne S.J. and Valin I.A., Teaching Innovation Award, The University of Hong Kong. 2016.
Melbourne S.J., Yangon Ecologies: Landscape Infrastructures in Myanmar's Commercial Capital, Cracow Landscape Conference. 2016.
Sarkar C., Webster C.J., Pryor M.R., Tang D.S.W., Melbourne S.J., Zhang X. and LIU J., The RTPI Awards for Research Excellence 2016 - Commendation for the project: "Exploring associations between urban green, street design and walking: Results from the Greater London boroughs", Royal Town Planning Institute, London.. 2016.
Valin I.A. and Melbourne S.J., Studio Yangon: Engaging Urban Change, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Conference (CELA). 2017.


Researcher : Ottevaere OP

Project Title:CROSS-AMERICAS: PROBING DISGLOBAL NETWORKS 2016 International Conference; Ruled based constructions or the materialization of a line in motion (Paper)/New Orders, in search of a new point-block diagram for Hong Kong (Poster)
Investigator(s):Ottevaere OP
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2016
Completion Date:07/2016


List of Research Outputs

Ottevaere O.P., New Orders, In search of a new point-block diagram for Hong Kong, 3rd International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA 2016). 2016.
Ottevaere O.P., New Orders, in search of a new point-block diagram for Hong Kong, GSTF Journal of Engineering Technology. Singapore, GSTF, 2016, Vol.4 No1: 72-80.
Ottevaere O.P., New Orders, in search of a new point-block diagram for Hong Kong, In: Cruz, P. J. S., Structures and Architecture, Beyond their Limits. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016, 365-366.
Ottevaere O.P., Presentation of current research work at the American University of Sharjah, College of Architecture, Art and Design (AUS), Design through Prototyping. 2017.
Ottevaere O.P., Symposium: Structure and Education, Concrete Approximations. 2016.


Researcher : Padua M

Project Title:Contemporary Urban Parks in China: changing needs for leisure and recreation
Investigator(s):Padua M
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Small Project Funding
Start Date:10/2005




Researcher : Pearce GA

Project Title:Architectural Engineering 2003 Conference - Building Integration Solutions Interdisciplinary Design Case Studies in Europe and Southeast Asia
Investigator(s):Pearce GA
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2003




Researcher : Pryor MR

Project Title:Green Slope Engineering: Bioengineered, Live Cover Systems for Man-made Fill Slopes and Landfill Capillary Barriers in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Pryor MR, Tham LG, Hau CH, Yan RWM
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) - Group Research Project
Start Date:06/2013


Project Title:Analytical study on the potential of urban roof farming in high density cities
Investigator(s):Pryor MR, Hui CMS, Jiang B, Zhang X
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2017


List of Research Outputs

Jiang B., Wang H.Q., Pryor M.R., Bao F.Y., Sullivan W.C. and Webster C.J., Complexity and mismatch: Comparing perception of acoustic and visual environments in the high-density city, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA, USA) 2017 Annual Conference. 2017.
Jiang B., Bao F.Y., Wang H.Q., Pryor M.R. and Webster C.J., Creating mentally restorative landscape for sweatshop workers: a participatory research., Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA in USA) 2017 Annual Conference. 2017.
Pryor M.R. and Cho C.M., In: Pryor, M.R. and Cho, J.C.M, CCHU9001 Designs on the Future Sustainability of the Built Environment 2016. Hong Kong, Division of Landscape Architecture, HKU, 2016, 136.
Pryor M.R., Hong Kong: Sustainability at the extremes , Fuse Öresund lecture series, Malmo, Sweden. 2017.
Pryor M.R., Hong Kong: an Early Unnatural History, In: Natural History Society of Hong Kong, Natural History Society of Hong Kong Lecture Series. 2017.
Pryor M.R., Productive Green Roofs, World Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2017, Hong Kong. Hong Kong, Sustainable Built Environment Conference Series, 2017.
Pryor M.R., The Tree in the Street: The Greening of the City of Victoria , In: Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong , Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong, Lecture Series. 2016.
Pryor M.R., Walkability and the public realm, Walk21 Hong Kong Conference. Hong Kong, Walk21, 2016.
Pryor M.R., landscape, street, DevB, Public Seminar - Right Tree Right Place and Street Ecology in Hong Kong. Hong Kong, 2016.
Sarkar C., Webster C.J., Pryor M.R., Tang D.S.W., Melbourne S.J., Zhang X. and LIU J., The RTPI Awards for Research Excellence 2016 - Commendation for the project: "Exploring associations between urban green, street design and walking: Results from the Greater London boroughs", Royal Town Planning Institute, London.. 2016.


Researcher : Roskam C

Project Title:Hong Kong: Uncertain(ci)ty
Investigator(s):Roskam C
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2017


Project Title:SAH 2017 Annual International Conference; Defining Reform: Postmodernism in Post-Maoist China
Investigator(s):Roskam C
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:06/2017
Completion Date:06/2017


List of Research Outputs

Roskam C., Book review, “China’s Foreign Places: The Foreign Presence in China in the Treaty Port Era, 1840-1943.” , Architecture Beyond Europe (ABE) Journal, 2017, 9/10.
Roskam C., Inventing the Rural, AD (Architectural Design). London, Wiley, 2016, 86: 14-19.
Roskam C., “Defining Reform: Postmodernism in Post-Mao China.” , Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting, Glasgow, Scotland. 2017.


Researcher : Schuldenfrei EH

Project Title:Rehab Nation; Cinematic Expository Systems
Investigator(s):Schuldenfrei EH
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:10/2016
Completion Date:10/2016


Project Title:WaterJet Machining Lab at HKU
Investigator(s):Schuldenfrei EH, Holohan DA
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Small Equipment Grant
Start Date:06/2017


List of Research Outputs

Schuldenfrei E.H., Cinematic Expository Systems, Arquiteturas, Lisbon. 2016.
Schuldenfrei E.H., M+ Museum, AEDES Architectural Forum in Berlin. 2017.
Schuldenfrei E.H., Rural-urban Re-inventions: Bridging The Gap Between China’s Cities and Countryside, American Academy in China Symposium. 2016.
Schuldenfrei E.H., Social Artefacts, HKU Career Discovery Program. 2016.


Researcher : Seng EMF

Project Title:City in a Building and Vibrancy in Mixed Use: A Study of the limits and decline of composite buildings in Hong Kong, 1959-present
Investigator(s):Seng MFE
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2016


List of Research Outputs



Researcher : Seng MFE

Project Title:City in a Building and Vibrancy in Mixed Use: A Study of the limits and decline of composite buildings in Hong Kong, 1959-present
Investigator(s):Seng MFE
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals
Start Date:07/2016


List of Research Outputs

Seng M.F.E., Architecture of Improvement and Aspirations of Communality, In: Eugene Ong , Vanishing Public Housing Estates in SIngapore. Singapore, donotdesign, 2017, 10-15.
Seng M.F.E., High Density, Housing and Architecture: Some historical and critical reflections, In: Anoma Pereris and Amanda Achmadi, Rethinking Modern Asia-Pacific Architectures: New Aesthetic Pedagogies international workshop. The University of Melbourne, 2016.
Seng M.F.E., Lange C.J. and Lange C., In: Christiiane Lange, Christian Lang and Eunice Seng, Housing Asia 2020. Hong Kong, HKU Department of Architecture, 2017.
Wee H.K. and Seng M.F.E., International Architecture Awards for “XSD Industrial Heritage Retail District”, Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. 2016.


Researcher : Seraji-Bozorgzad N

List of Research Outputs

Seraji-Bozorgzad N., Keynote speaker at the symposium "ISFAHAN the world city of the 17th Century" - Isfahan Cultural Centre. 2016.
Seraji-Bozorgzad N., Keynote speaker in Taipei, "Practicing the Pedagogy: Architectural Studio as Experimental Lab" Forum on architectural education. 2016.
Seraji-Bozorgzad N., Symposium on Architectural Education and Practice, “Practicing Education, Educating Practice” AIA Chapter Hong Kong. 2017.
Seraji-Bozorgzad N., Symposium on Reading Writing and Criticism in Architecture: From Crisis to Crisis, HKU Department of Architecture. 2017.


Researcher : Solomon JD

Project Title:Repositioning GIS:Integrating Geographic Information Systems Technology into Architecture Curriculum
Investigator(s):Solomon JD, Wang J, Carlow JF, Du J
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Teaching Development Grants
Start Date:05/2008


Project Title:Visiting Research Professors Scheme 2009-10
Investigator(s):Solomon JD
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Visiting Research Professors Scheme
Start Date:09/2009




Researcher : Tang DSW

Project Title:China LandLAB: Developing A Design/Research Laboratory For Undergraduate Landscape Architecture Students In Shanghai
Investigator(s):Tang DSW
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Run Run Shaw Research and Teaching Endowment Fund - Teaching Grants
Start Date:07/2011
Completion Date:05/2017


Project Title:Landscapes in Transition: 49th IFLA World Congress; Ecologies Of Gold: The Past And Future Mining Landscape of Johannesburg
Investigator(s):Tang DSW
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:09/2012


Project Title:Jintai Village Project Phase II
Investigator(s):Tang DSW, Lin CJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Nan Fung Development Limited
Start Date:01/2015


Project Title:An Atlas of Gold: Mining, Environmental Change, and Urban Development in Johannesburg
Investigator(s):Tang DSW
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:01/2015


Project Title:Connecting Wildlife and Enhancing Ecosystem Services - Dawei Road Link
Investigator(s):Tang DSW, Kelly AS
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:WWF Myanmar
Start Date:12/2015


List of Research Outputs

Jiang B. and Tang D.S.W., Public Health and the illegal E-waste industry in China—alternative visions from urban planning and landscape design., 2017 Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers. 2017.
Mak W.S., Tang D.S.W. and Chan Y.L.J., “Hong Kong Platforms: Towards a Sustainable City” - Merit Award from the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects (HKILA) Design Awards 2016 – Landscape Research Category, Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects. 2016.
Sarkar C., Webster C.J., Pryor M.R., Tang D.S.W., Melbourne S.J., Zhang X. and LIU J., The RTPI Awards for Research Excellence 2016 - Commendation for the project: "Exploring associations between urban green, street design and walking: Results from the Greater London boroughs", Royal Town Planning Institute, London.. 2016.


Researcher : Trumpf SE

List of Research Outputs

Lu X., Valin I.A. and Trumpf S.E., Interstitial Hong Kong, 间隙香港, In: Kongjian Yu, LAF: Landscape Architecture Frontiers. 景观设计学, 2017, 5:3: 121-131.


Researcher : Tse CKC

List of Research Outputs

Lee H.Y. and Tse C.K.C., “The Architectural and Cinematic Heritage of Yau Ma Tei Theatre” , CPD lecture invited by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), held at the CityU SCOPE Admiralty Learning Centre, 20 January 2017. 2017.


Researcher : Valin IA

Project Title:Mud and Jungle: the Tropical Urban Ecologies of Yangon.
Investigator(s):Valin IA
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:11/2014


Project Title:A Landscape Typological Study of Public Housing in Hong Kong, 1973-1988
Investigator(s):Valin IA
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:05/2016


Project Title:CELA 2017; Studio Yangon: Engaging Urban Change
Investigator(s):Valin IA
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:05/2017
Completion Date:05/2017


List of Research Outputs

Lu X., Valin I.A. and Trumpf S.E., Interstitial Hong Kong, 间隙香港, In: Kongjian Yu, LAF: Landscape Architecture Frontiers. 景观设计学, 2017, 5:3: 121-131.
Melbourne S.J. and Valin I.A., Teaching Innovation Award, The University of Hong Kong. 2016.
Valin I.A., Between spontaneity and heritage: exploring the human and natural ecologies of Yangon, In: Tang, Dorothy, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Conference (CELA). 2017, Urban Wilds of Tropical and Subtropical Asia.
Valin I.A. and Echeverri N., Cities within the City, density in the territory: public housing estates and the transformation of Hong Kong, MONU. Rotterdam, 2017, 26 "Decentralized Urbanism": 96-103.
Valin I.A. and Melbourne S.J., Studio Yangon: Engaging Urban Change, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Conference (CELA). 2017.
Valin I.A., Wild City / Density: Thoughts on Urban Ecology and Settlement in Tropical Asia, U+L 7: Urbanism and Landscape Architecture “New Thinking”. Huazhong University of Science and Techn, 2016.
Valin I.A., competition jury member, Urban Design Competition, Huazhong University. Huazhong University, Wuhan, 2016.


Researcher : Wang WJ

Project Title:7th IASTE Conference: The End of Tradition? Globalizing the Local - Media-representations of Hong Kong's Urban Landscape
Investigator(s):Wang WJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:10/2000


Project Title:XXI World Congress of Architecture 2002 Learning from Antipodes - Vienna, Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Wang WJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2002


Project Title:ReEA 2006: Reassessing East Asia in the Light of Urban and Architectural History Typological Transformation of Courtyard House in Lijiang Area: Women and Nuclear Space of Naxi Dwelling
Investigator(s):Wang WJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:12/2006


Project Title:Research Output Prize (Faculty of Architecture)
Investigator(s):Wang WJ
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Research Output Prize (in Faculty)
Start Date:12/2011


List of Research Outputs

Wang W.J., Social Community Design, 2016 China Media Architectural Award, Reconstruction of Choi Yuan Village , 社會社區:菜園村重建,中國建築傳媒獎, China Media Architectural Award, South Urban Daily . 南方都市報中國建築傳 媒獎, 2016.


Researcher : Wee HK

Project Title:Asian Modernism: The Writings of William S.W. Lim in Architecture, Planning and Society
Investigator(s):Wee HK
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:06/2015
Completion Date:09/2016


Project Title:Producing Food and Enhancing Community in the City: using a hybrid design-land economy approach to investigate the barriers to urban farming in Hong Kong
Investigator(s):Wee HK, Webster CJ, Li LH
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:General Research Fund (GRF)
Start Date:06/2016


Project Title:Study of Factory Design and Planning in the period of technology transfer developed under the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance, 1950-61
Investigator(s):Wee HK
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2017


Project Title:Anthology Architecture and Design Festival; Social Imperative: Architecture and the City in China
Investigator(s):Wee HK
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:03/2017
Completion Date:04/2017


List of Research Outputs

Wee H.K., "Spatial Limits of Socialist China", In: H.K. WEE, The Social Imperative: Architecture and the City in China. 社在必行, New York City, Actar, 2016, 360.
Wee H.K., Editorship and Translation, In: H.K. WEE, The Social Imperative: Architecture and the City in China. 社在必行, New York City, Actar, 2017, 360.
Wee H.K. and Seng M.F.E., International Architecture Awards for “XSD Industrial Heritage Retail District”, Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. 2016.
Wee H.K., Social Imperative: Architecture and the City in China, Anthology Architecture and Design Festival. 2017.


Researcher : Wong WS

List of Research Outputs

Wong W.S., Building Code as the Formwork of Construction, 2016 APCBEES Hong Kong Conference. 2016.


Researcher : Ye AM

Project Title:Urban regeneration through upgrading and rehabilitation
Investigator(s):Ye AM, Smith PC, Lai LWC, Ganesan S
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:03/2004


Project Title:2nd International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Understanding the Social Function of City Form: A morphological approach to built environment research
Investigator(s):Ye AM
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff
Start Date:07/2007




Researcher : Zhou Y

Project Title:Culture-led Spatial Productions: Case Studies of and for East Asia
Investigator(s):Zhou Y
Department:Architecture
Source(s) of Funding:Seed Fund for Basic Research
Start Date:11/2016


List of Research Outputs

Zhou Y., A Proposal for Urban Manufacturing: Reconciling Industrial Production and New Urban Programmes in Kallang Bahru, In: Kees Christiaanse, Arpad Hetey, Vera Schmidt, Ying Zhou , FCL Magazine Special Issue Urban Breeding Grounds. Singapore, Future Cities Laboratory, 2016, 126-137.
Zhou Y., A Proposal for a Modernist Neighbourhood: Rejuvenating Crawford through a Densification and Reuse Strategy, In: Kees Christiaanse, Arpad Hetey, Vera Schmidt, Ying Zhou, FCL Magazine Special Issue Urban Breeding Grounds. Singapore, Future Cities Laboratory, 2016, 112-125.
Zhou Y., A Proposal for a Multi-Ethnic Quarter: Mediating Divergent Social Groups in the Farrer Park Area, In: Kees Christiaanse, Arpad Hetey, Vera Schmidt, Ying Zhou , FCL Magazine Special Issue Urban Breeding Grounds. Singapore, Future Cities Laboratory, 2016, 88-99.
Zhou Y., A Proposal for a New Urban Node: Developing the Ophir-Rochor Corridor as a Central Urban Connector , In: Kees Christiaanse, Arpad Hetey, Vera Schmidt, Ying Zhou, FCL Magazine Special Issue Urban Breeding Grounds. Singapore, Future Cities Laboratory, 2016, 46-59.
Zhou Y., Editor, In: Kees Christiaanse, Arpad Hetey, Vera Schmidt, Ying Zhou, FCL Magazine Special Issue Urban Breeding Grounds,. Singapore, Future Cities Laboratory, 2016.
Zhou Y., In: Kees Christiaanse, Arpad Hetey, Vera Schmidt, Ying Zhou , FCL Magazine Special Issue Urban Breeding Grounds. Singapore, Future Cities Laboratory, 2016.
Zhou Y., Gentrification with Chinese Characteristics? City Centre Transformations in Shanghai, In: Daan Roggeveen, Progress & Prosperity The Chinese City as Global Urban Model. Amsterdam, NAi, 2017, 68-83.
Zhou Y., Urban Loopholes: Creative Alliances of Spatial Production in Shanghai’s City Center. Basel, Birkhäuser, 2017.


Researcher : Zhu T

List of Research Outputs

Zhu T., Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality, Archiposition Lecture Series. Shenzhen, Archiposition Space, 2017.
Zhu T., Rebuild City, Reconstruct Publicness: Chang'an Experiment, Archiposition Space Lecture Series. Shenzhen, Archiposition Space, 2017.
Zhu T., Rebuild City, Reconstruct Publicness: Chang'an Experiment, Southeast University. Nanjing, Southeast University, 2017.
Zhu T., Rebuild City, Reconstruct Publicness: Re-reading Jane Jacobs, South China University of Technology Lecture Series. Guangzhou, South China University of Technology, 2017.
Zhu T., Rebuild City, Reconstruct Publicness: Urban Acupuncture, He Xiangning Art Museum Lecture Series. Shenzhen, He Xiangning Art Museum, 2017.
Zhu T., Rebuild City, Reconstruct Publicness: Urban Acupuncture, South China University of Technology. Guangzhou, South China University of Technology, 2017.


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