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Idea-Tops International Design Forum was established by Idea-Tops Organizing Committee, well-known professors and academic leaders from 22 top universities in the world, including Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Princeton, MIT, Tsinghua University and Peking University. Zheng Shiling (Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) serves as chairman of Idea-Tops International Design Forum, Lu Xiaobo (President of Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University) serves as vice chairman, and Liu Yu-Tung (Doctor of Design at Harvard University, Vice President of Asia University, Taiwan) serves as vice chairman and executive chairman. On December 2nd, 2015, the first Idea-Tops International Design Forum was held with the theme of "Design Exploration in the 21st Century". The establishment of Idea-Tops International Design Forum has provided strong academic support to Idea-Tops, and enabled Idea-Tops to promote cultural exchange and academic communication between Chinese and western design at a new academic level and with a higher international vision.
Zheng Shiling
Zheng Shiling was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province on November 12, 1941. He received his master's degree at the Architecture Department of Tongji University in 1981 and received his doctor's degree in 1993. He is a professor at Institute of Architecture and Urban Space, Tongji University. He became an elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001
Liu Yudong
Doctor of Architectural Design of Harvard University, vice president and chair professor of Asia University, Taiwan, founding professor of NCTU Graduate Institute of Architecture
Lu Xiaobo
Lu Xiaobo studied industrial design at the Central Academy of Art and Design in China, today the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University, where he is currently a professor. From 2005 to 2011, he has been the dean as well as executive director of the Research Centre of Arts & Science of Tsinghua University.He has also been a guest researcher at the Microsoft Corporation in Seattle, USA, and is currently working for Microsoft Research in Asia
Rosetta Sarah Elkin
Rosetta Sarah Elkin is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and an Associate at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum. As a registered landscape architect in the Netherlands, Elkin is the principle of rse-landscape, a design studio founded in 2007, which prioritizes exhibition and publication as design research
François Penz
François Penz, an architect by training is a Professor of Architecture and the Moving Image in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art at the University of Cambridge where he directs the Digital Studio for Research in Design, Visualization and Communication. He is also the Director of The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies – the research arm of the Department of Architecture - and a Fellow of Darwin College
David Howard
David Howard is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. He is Director for the DPhil in Sustainable Urban Development and Director of Studies for the Sustainable Urban Development Programme at the University of Oxford. He is a member of the Management Committee for the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford, and CNRS Research Associate at Université Bordeaux
Paul Lewis
Paul Lewis is a Principal at LTL Architects based in New York City. He is Professor and Associate Dean at Princeton University School of Architecture. Paul is the President of the Architectural League and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome
Antonino Saggio
Antonino Saggio is an architect, scholar and professor and holds the Architecture and Information Technology Chair at the School of Architecture at “Sapienza”, University of Rome. From 2011 to 2018, he has been the coordinator of the PhD program in Architecture - Theory and Design which is one of the oldest and more relevant in Italy. The PhD program is offered by the Department of Architettura and Progetto of which Saggio belongs since 1986.
Martine Bouchier
Martine Bouchier is a professor at the Paris-Val-de-Seine School of Architecture, a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee and a distinguished professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. She is responsible for scientific research and cultural cooperation with Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Takehiko Nagakura
Takehiko Nagakura is an architect from Tokyo. At MIT, he teaches courses related computer-aided design, and his research focuses on the representation and computation of architectural space and formal design knowledge
Joel Sanders
Joel Sanders is a Professor in-Practice and Director of Post-Professional Studies at the Yale School of Architecture, a founder of JSA, a full service architecture and interior design studio specializing in academic, arts and residential design
Yusuke Obuchi
Yusuke Obuchi is an Associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Tokyo, where he has directed Obuchi Laboratory at the Department of Architecture since 2010. He is also a founding Co-director of the Advanced Design Studies Program. He has previously taught at Princeton University, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, University of Kentucky, and New Jersey Institute of Technology, and was Co-Director of the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association (AA) in London from 2005 to 2010, and Course Master and Unit Master of the Architectural Association from 2003 to 2005.
Yu Kongjian
Doctor of Harvard University, Dean of the School of Architecture and Landscape Design of Peking University, distinguished professor of Changjiang Scholars program by the Ministry of Education, expert of the national "Thousand Talents Plan" of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, President and Chief designer of Beijing Native Landscape and Architectural Planning and Design Institute
Meng Jianmin
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, National Architectural Design Master, professor-level senior engineer, first-class registered architect
Zhang Yue
Professor and doctoral supervisor of the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University., has more than ten years of rich teaching experience and has written professional books such as “Interior Design Data Set” and “Interior Ergonomics”
Peng Jun
Former dean of School of Environment and Architectural Art at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, visiting professor at University of Pecs, Hungary, senior visiting scholar of Brunel University and Northumbria University
Wang Tie
Professor and doctoral supervisor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Doctoral supervisor of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Pécs, Hungary, researcher of the Chinese National Academy of Arts, member of the China Artists Association
Gong Shuzhang
Gong Shuzhang holds a master's degree in architecture and a master's degree in design from Harvard University. He became an outstanding architect of Republic of China in 2007. He is now an associate professor and director of the Institute of Architecture of National Jiaotong University. Gong Shuzhang is specializing in architectural design, as well as architectural history theory and criticism
Zhao Jian
Vice president of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, chairman of the academic committee of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, doctoral director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University and doctoral director of Macao University of Science and Technology. Vice president of China Interior Decoration Association, deputy director of Graphic Design Committee of China Artists Association and deputy director of design professional committee of China Higher Education Society
Zhao Honghong
Professor and doctoral supervisor of the school of architecture at South China University of Technology, expert with the special government allowance of the State Council, and director of the Institute of Urban Planning and Environmental Design
Xu Yu
Director and professor of the ruins protection and ancient architecture (International) research center of Xi'an Jiaotong University; Chief planner of campus planning and construction center of Xi'an Jiaotong University; National first class Registered Architect
Sun Cheng
Associate Dean, professor and doctoral supervisor of the school of architecture of Harbin Institute of Technology
Ye Qing
Master of architecture, Zhejiang University, professor level senior engineer, national first-class registered architect, has been engaged in the research and practice of green building and ecological city for many years. She is currently the Secretary of the Party committee and chairman of the board of directors of Shenzhen Academy of Building Sciences Co., Ltd