Research direction:design and theories of residential architecture; theories of urban renewal as well as research and design about its implementation path; inheritance and reinterpretation of Chinese traditional culture in residential environment

Yang Jing: national registered planner; permanent expert of Nanjing Planning Bureau; member of Residential Architecture Professional Committee, Architectural Society of China; member of Accessible Environment Research Professional Committee for Public Welfare of Chinese Disabled Persons; member of Rural Architecture Branch, Architectural Society of China; member of Expert Group in Nanjing Accessible Environment Construction. She worked at Vanke Co., Ltd. for over 4 years from 2001 to 2005; since the end of 2005, she has been teaching at the School of Architecture, Southeast University, as the lecturer of the undergraduate course — Theory and Design of Residential Environment; also, she serves as a key professor responsible for the fourth-year curriculum design; with her project selected in the international training program —Development and Design of Residential Architecture Oriented at Low-income People, she went to Lund University in Sweden for further study and academic exchange.

Her research focuses on the design and theories of residential architecture, the residential needs of low-income and special groups, the diversity of residential and urban forms in urban renewal, the reinterpretation and revival of Chinese traditional culture in residential environment and architecture, the combination of green, low-carbon thinking and residential architecture design,  as well as the research and practice of digital technologies in optimization of scheme design. She has published such monographs as Residential Planning and Design Interacting with Cities and Integrated Research and Application of Suitable Technologies for Green Residential Areas in the Yangtze River Delta Region. What’s more, she has published more than 20 papers in such journals as Architectural Journal, City Planning Review, and Journal of Green Building. In addition, she has led two projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China and many projects at the municipal level; her design works have won over 10 awards presented by the national and provincial governments.The UAG studio led by her has become an outstanding integrated platform for industry, academia, and research, where a large number of top postgraduates are cultivated. Besides, in recent years, she, with enthusiasm in the research and practice of urban renewal, has been responsible for and engaged in the planning and architectural design of several pilot projects about urban renewal in Jiangsu Province and Nanjing City, including “Le Ye Village” “Cheng He Village” “No. 134 Hankou West Road” “365 Plot Renewal, He Yan Road” “Shang Yuan Men Area” “Nanjing Binjiang Jinling Shipyard Plot” “Nanjing Shiliu New Village”, and so on.