About

Dr. Zhongjie Lin is Director of Master of Urban Design Program at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he serve as Professor of Architecture and Urbanism. He is also Visiting Professor of Urban Design at University of Pennsylvania and Co-founder and Partner of Futurepolis, an award-winning cross-disciplinary design practice. An internationally acclaimed scholar of urban design, he has published several books including Vertical Urbanism and Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement. He has received many prestigious awards including the 2014 Abe Fellowship, the 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2012 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, and the 2011 ARCC New Researcher Award.