个人简介

Dr Duanfang Lu is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning (ADP) at the University of Sydney, Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Tsinghua University, Beijing and PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. She has published widely on modern architectural and planning history, and her work has explored various interdisciplinary intersections. She has been awarded prestigious research grants from Australian Research Council, the US Social Science Research Council, and Getty Foundation, as well as the Best Article Prize from Planning Perspectives and the International Planning History Society.

Lu’s book Remaking Chinese Urban Form (Routledge, 2006, 2011) provides a significant new perspective on the intertwined relationship between modernity, scarcity and the built environment by examining the development of the work unit (danwei) – the socialist enterprise or institute which integrated work and living spaces – as a primary urban form under Maoist socialism. Her edited book Third World Modernism (Routledge, 2010) opens up whole new perspectives on the development of modernist architecture in developing countries in the 1950s and 1960s. Both books have received acclaims from leading scholars and been adopted as required reading by architecture and urban design courses internationally. The conceptual framework on entangled modernities she develops through a series of articles has been used by scholars and students across the world to investigate non-Western built environments.

More recently, Lu has been awarded the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (AU$682,836), which supports her world-leading research on complexities surrounding urbanization, built environments, and the politics of land in China with a non-teaching period from 2012 to 2016. Her forthcoming monograph New Book of Changes: The Way of China and Its Urbanization offers a multi-dimensional comprehension of Chinese urbanization from the perspective of statecraft. Her edited volume The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History will be published in 2020. She is currently leading a research team to do collaborative research on urban design in Guangzhou.

Lu has served as Board Director of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and its Chair of International Committee (2012–2015). She is a co-founder and currently President of the Society of Architectural Historians of Asia (SAH-Asia), a transnational network aiming to foster high-quality research on Asian built environments. She served as Associate Dean of Education of ADP in 2012–2015. Under her leadership, ADP was among the faculties that have made greatest progress at the university level. She has served on editorial boards of Cities, Architectural Theory Review, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review and Planning Perspectives, as well as the advisory board of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE). She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University (2008), Global Scholar at Tsinghua University (2013), and invited expert at Sichuan University and Shanghai University. She has given conference keynote speeches and invited lectures at various universities and institutes in Australia, UK, Asia, Europe and North America. She has also served to disseminate knowledge to the wider community by making regular media appearances on newspaper, radio and television.

Lu is Principal of GZ Architects and has extensive experience in architectural and urban design. She won the First Prize in Shenzhen Bao’an Central Area “Green Axis” Complex Design Competition in 2000 (with Gang Gang) and has been an invited columnist of the Italian design magazine Domus (China).

Research interests: Contemporary architectural history and theory, modern architecture and urban development in China, critical theories on space and society, urban design and neighbourhood planning.

电子邮箱：duanfang.lu@sydney.edu.au

代表性成果

2018 Research on key techniques to achieve humane and quality urban design in Guangzhou, Muslimin R, Lu D, Alizadeh T, Sarkar S, Guangzhou Science Technology and Innovation Commission/Research Grant

2012 Mapping Chinas Urban Crisis: The Politics of Land and Resettlement, Lu D, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Future Fellowships (FT)

2006 National Buildings, Global Visions: Exporting Chinese Architecture to the Third World, Lu D, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2005 Exporting Chinese Architecture to the Third World, 1956-1965, Lu D, University of Sydney/Early Career Researcher

2005 Improving the Induction and Integration of Research Students into the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, Cabrera D, Gero J, Hill G, Lu D, Pizarro R, University of Sydney/Teaching Improvement Fund (TIF)

2004 Architecture and Global Imaginations in China, 1911 - 1965, Lu D, University of Sydney/Early Career Researcher