Prominent figures from leading architectural institutions in China have visited the University's Kent School of Architecture (KSA).
Organised by the British Council, Beijing, the delegation was led by Professor Zhu Wenyi, Vice President of the Architecture Society of China and Dean of Tsinghua University’s School of Architecture. He was accompanied by 10 colleagues from five other Chinese universities, all of whom were keen to discuss long-term collaborations with KSA. These discussions included opportunities for staff and student exchanges, as well as research collaborations.
This was the second stage in a collaboration that began with an invitation to KSA’s Professor Gordana Fontana-Giusti from the British Council, Beijing, earlier in 2013.
The collaboration, which involves partners from the Architectural Society of China, one of the most important professional organisations under the Ministry of Housing and Rural-Urban Development of China, involves six prominent Chinese universities well-known for their architectural departments and four selected UK universities with interests in UK/China higher education collaboration in the areas of architectural, urban and industrial heritage design.
The six Chinese institutions are:
- School of Architecture, Tsinghua University
- School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
- School of Architecture and Urban Planning, North China University of Technology
- School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Beijing University of Technology
- School of Civil Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University
- School of Architecture, China Central Academy of Fine Arts.