ZHANG Ye is Associate Professor (tenured) at School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. He was Associate Professor (tenured) at Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore, wherein he served as Urbanism Cluster Leader and Director of Master of Arts in Urban Design (MAUD) programme. He has also been serving as Director General of International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) since 2020, an international network of universities and research institutes with the task to strengthen the collaboration in the field of Urbanism.
Ye holds a PhD in Architecture from University of Cambridge, UK (2014) and received both M.Arch and B.Arch degrees from Tsinghua University, China (2006 & 2008). He was a fellow of Cambridge Overseas Trust from 2008 to 2011, and also a visiting academic at The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London in 2015.
Ye’s principal research interest resides in synergising different approaches to describing, analysing and assessing urban form and its association with various social and economic activities in the city. His current research focuses on understanding and improving human-environment interactions against the backdrop of urban digital transformation and urban regeneration. His research has received funding from national and private foundations of China, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Germany. Ye has published widely in the field of urban form and urbanism. His recent books include Sharing by Design (2020) and Conserving and Managing Historical Urban Landscape: An Integrated Morphological Approach (2023), both published by Springer Nature. Ye has lectured broadly at University of Cambridge, University College London, Meiji University, Curtin University, University of Auckland, Chinese University of Hong Kong, among many others. His work has been featured in top international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale of Architecture and UIA World Architects Congress.
