John Lin

Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong

2002, degree in Architecture, Cooper Union, New York City. Architect based in Hong Kong. Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong. Director, Rural Urban Framework (RUF), a research and design platform dedicated to developing sustainable prototypes for rapidly urbanizing areas. Their approach combines research into large-scale urbanization processes and integration of local construction practices with contemporary technology in built projects. They have built over 15 projects in China and Mongolia in collaboration with government, NGOs and local communities. RUF is the recipient of numerous international awards, including: Curry Stone Design Award (2015) and Ralph Erskine Award (2014), for innovation in architecture that “benefits the less privileged in society”; RIBA Emerging Architect Award (2016); Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard; ICON Award Emerging Architectural Practice of the Year (2013); Architectural Review’s House Award (2012), WA Chinese Architecture Award (2012), and Wienerberger Brick Award (2014) for “House For All Seasons”, a rural prototype built in China. Rural Urban Framework: Transforming the Chinese Countryside (book, 2013), presents RUF research and projects in villages in China, discussing not only successful projects, but failures and speculations on the changes in rural China since 2006.

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