Liyang is an assistant professor at Marywood University. He holds PhD in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He works as an architect, editor, translator, teacher, and historian.
In the past three years, I have been working together with a group of brilliant scholars and architects on an exhibition that features the historical development of modern architecture in China through the lens of its relationship to the Beaux-Arts architecture traditional in the U.S., in particular Upenn. Titled “Building in China: A Century of…
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I presented at the “Chinoiserie: Exoticism and the Imagining of the Self and the Other in Architectural Culture” panel of the SAH 2021 Virtual Conference.
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I will be presenting my research on Chinese architect and educator Huang Zuoshen on September 20, 2019 at Bauhaus Transfers Symposium organized by Penn State University Department of Architecture in State College, PA. http://stuckeman.psu.edu/events/bauhaus-transfers-symposium
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It is an honor for me to be featured on the School of Design website. https://www.design.upenn.edu/architecture/graduate/post/phd-candidate-earns-daad-research-grant
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It was my honor to present at the “Architectural Theory Now?” Symposium on April 4, 2019.
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It was my pleasure to present my study on the relationship between Hans Scharoun and China at the 48th Annual Gebser Society Conference at Boulder CO on Oct 13, 2018
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I had the opportunity to interview Sou Fujimoto in 2011. Here is the transcript of our conversation. (LD: me; SF: Sou Fujimoto) LD: Which factor listed below is the most important in your way of finding your own design methodology? If the answer is none of them, then what is that?1) Theories and practices of…
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