SOM Foundation Announces Jury for the 2023 China Fellowship

Peter Duncan (Chair) is China Practice Leader at SOM in Shanghai. With more than twenty-eight years of experience and an extensive portfolio of projects realized throughout China, Duncan plays a key role in driving SOM’s business in the country and continuing its commitments to sustainability, design excellence, and client collaboration. Working closely with SOM's global leadership team, he leads SOM’s Shanghai office while driving the firm’s strategic growth in China and building on the firm's forty-year history in the country. Prior to joining SOM, Duncan served as Chairman, Board Director, and China Managing Director of HASSELL. He has lectured regularly at universities throughout Asia and is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects. He holds degrees from the International Real Estate Business School in Frankfurt, Germany, Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia.

Doreen Heng Liu is Founder and Principal of NODE Architecture, which she established in 2004 in Hong Kong. With her design focus on urban regeneration, infrastructure, and public space, Liu’s studio tries to reinvestigate and reexamine the given conditions based on specific sites and issues. Through a series of critical and research-based design exercises, the studio seeks to explore and ultimately to deliver different but better alternatives in architecture today. Liu has taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, and the University of California, Berkeley. She was appointed as Distinguished Professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Shenzhen University and Director of the Greater Bay Area Innovation Design Lab since September 2020.

Jing Liu is a founding principal of SO–IL. Liu has been practicing for more than fifteen years working on a wide range of projects both in the United States and abroad. Through building practice and interdisciplinary research projects, Liu has led SO–IL in the engagement with the sociopolitical issues of contemporary cities—in projects like the Artists Loft North Omaha and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in Cleveland. Her projects range from artistic collaborations with contemporary choreographers and visual artists to master plan and major public realm design in cities like Melbourne and Indianapolis. Liu brings an intellectually open, globally aware, and locally sensitive perspective to architecture. Her intellectual curiosity and artistic imagination allow her to bring a more nuanced cultural perspective to the table. Her keen skills in combining digital technology with traditional craft and firm belief in design’s ability to re-engage people with the physical world around them allow the buildings she designs to become places of exchange that welcome interpretation and transformation.

Kongjian Yu is the founder of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Cheung Kong Scholar Chair Professor of Design at Peking University, and one of China’s National Thousand Talents. He is the founder of Turenscape, one of the first and largest private architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism practices in China. His pioneering research on “ecological security patterns” and “sponge cities” has been adopted by the Chinese government as the guiding theory for national land-use planning, eco-city campaign, and urban ecological restoration. A native of China’s Zhejiang Province, his guiding design principles are the appreciation of the ordinary, such as rural agricultural landscapes, and a deep embracing of nature, even in its potentially destructive aspects, such as urban flooding. Yu has published twenty-five books and over three hundred papers and is founder and chief editor of the award-winning magazine Landscape Architecture Frontiers.