Basic Information
Name:FENG Jiang
Date of birth: Nov. 1972
Ttitle&Area：Professor, Architectural History and Theory
Professor Feng Jiang, Head of the Architecture Department at South China University of Technology, specializes in the regional architectural historiography, exemplified by the monograph In the Name of Forefathers: Traditional Kinship-based Settlements and Ancestral Halls in Canton Prefecture During the Ming and Qing Dynasties. He was a visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017 and Politecnico di Torino in 2018. He also served as a member of the ICOMOS Scoping Study on Maritime Silk Routes Task Force from 2022 to 2024.
Education
1989-1993: Department of Architecture, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (formerly Huazhong University of Technology), Bachelor's Degree.
1997-2000: South China University of Technology, Major in Architectural History and Theory, Master's Degree.
2003-2010: South China University of Technology, Major in Architectural History and Theory, Ph.D.
Academic Interests
(1) Regional architectural historiography, emphasizing the integration of environmental history, socioeconomic history, construction history, and spatial evolution through the lens of historical anthropology.
(2) Built heritage conservation: cultural heritage restoration, historic urban precincts regeneration, and neighborhood revitalization.
(3) Design in heritage contexts: urbanism, architecture, and landscape.
Representative Personal Paper
(1) Jiang Feng, Mengran Li. Roma Interrotta and Guangzhou Interrupted: The Practical Dilemma in Urban Historic Environment and the Discipline Crisis of Architecture. Architectural Journal, 2016, (12):1-8. [in Chinese]
(2) Jiang Feng, Rui Li. Tide and Canton Gardens. Journal of Architectural History,2023,4(01):147-161. [in Chinese]
(3) Jiang Feng, Ke Chen. Cooperative Historic Landscape Rejuvenation in China: The Litchi Bay Project in Guangzhou. Built Heritage, 2019[1]:76-90. [in English]
(4) Jiang Feng, Jianchi Wu. Reading the Morphogenesis of Late Qing Canton Prefecture Villages Through the Guangdong Atlas. In: Xu, S., Aoki, N., Vieira Amaro, B. (eds) East Asian Architecture in Globalization. EAAC 2017. Springer, Cham. 214-234. [in English]
(5) Jiang Feng. Building Canton Fair : Towards a Regional Modernism in Southern China (1950s–1980s) [A]. In Jianfei Zhu , Chen Wei, & Li Hua eds. Routledge Handbook of Chinese Architecture Social Production of Buildings and Spaces in History. Routledge, 2022. [in English]
Contact
Email: jfeng@scut.edu.cn
Address: School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, CHINA 510640
