contributors
CHAPTER 1 Alexander Cuthbert is Emeritus Professor of Planning and Urban Development at at the
University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He was educated in Scotland with degrees in Architecture, Planning and Urban Design, and a Doctorate from London School of
Economics and Political Science. His main interest has been in urban design, with teaching and practice in Greece, Britain, the United States, Hong Kong and Australia. Professor Cuthbert has
over 100 published works. He was winner of the prestigious
Australia Award for Urban Design
in 2006. He has recently spent nine years developing a
Unified Field Theory of Urban Design
, published in three volumes:
Designing Cities,
Blackwells 2003;
The Form of Cities
Blackwells 2006,
Understanding Cities
Routledge 2011, and one complete issue of
Urban Design International
200712:177-223. CHAPTER 2
Jon Lang is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He taught urban design at the University of Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1990.
He has been a visiting professor at universities in India, Korea, Puerto Rico, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela as well as the United States. Jon is the author of a number of books on urban
design, the relationship between people and the built environment, and on modern architecture in India. His latest book is
Urban Design: a Typology of Procedures and Products
. He has been a juror on a number of international urban design competitions. He is also Director for Urban
Design of ERG Environmental Research Group, Inc. in Philadelphia.
CHAPTER 3 Ma.Corazon Alejo-Hila
is currently Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines’ College of Fine Arts, where she served as Chair of the Department of Art Theory and Art
History from 1998-2001, 2006-2008, and again in 2009-2010. She has lectured and written extensively on the subject of architecture in the Philippines, especially vernacular architecture;
Philippine textiles and weaving traditions; Philippine contemporary art; and Southeast Asian art and architecture. She was the Ignacio Villamor Professorial Chair Holder for Art History in
1997, 1999, and 2001.
CHAPTER 4 Liu Yu, is Professor of Architecture at the School of Mechanics, Civil Engineering and
Architecture, director of the Sustainable Building and Environmental Research Institute SBERI, Northwestern Polytechnical University NPU, China. She completed undergraduate
and postgraduate degree studies in architecture program at Tianjin University and Xi’an
University of Architecture and Technology respectively, and obtained her PhD degree at the University of New South Wales UNSW in Australia. In the last 10 years, she has published
over 80 research papers in academic journals and conferences, one research book in English, three edited books including two textbooks in Chinese.
Liu Jinghua, associate professor of architecture at the School of Mechanics, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Northwestern Polytechnical University NPU, China. She completed
undergraduate and postgraduate degree studies in the architecture program at NPU and Xi’an
University of Architecture and Technology XAUAT respectively, and is now a PhD Candidate of XAUAT. Her research field is ecological architectural design and Chinese vernacular
architecture.
Chen Xin, lecturer of architecture at the School of Mechanics, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Northwestern Polytechnical University NPU, China. She graduated from
Nagoya Institute of Technology Japan and obtained PhD degree. She has published more than 10 research papers in important academic journals of China and Japan. In 2006, she received the
Third Prize of Excellent Natural Science Paper Award by Shaanxi Province. In 2010 she received the Tokai Prize for research thesis from the Architectural Institute of Japan.
Huang Jie, master student in the Architecture Design and Principle program at the School of Mechanics, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Northwestern Polytechnical University NPU.
His research is focuses on the green building design and theory. During his undergraduate and postgraduate study period, he won a number of scholarships in NPU and prizes in different
architectural competitions.
CHAPTER 5 Nguyen Truc Anh was educated in Vietnam, Australia and Tokyo with degrees in Architecture
