China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

Faculty Member, Architecture

Other Affiliations: The University of Hong Kong, Architecture
University of Michigan, Architecture
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Architecture

About

Fei Wang is the co-founder of “Chinese Archi-Image Phenomena [CAIP, http://caipcaip.blogspot.com]”, a consortium of urban image theorists and architects speculating on architecture and image culture in contemporary China. Wang is a practicing architect and an emerging architectural theorist working between Western visuality and its representation as it encounters the high-speed urbanization of China through the lens types of 18th-Century Chinese perspective, architectural simulacra and phenomenology.

He is currently teaching at University of Michigan, USA, and he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at School of Architecture, North Carolina State University, USA, and is a Visiting Teacher at the Achitectural Association, London, UK.

He has practiced architecture in China, USA and Canada. His work has been recognized with numerous academic awards and competition entries. His design and research projects have been exhibited in China, Germany, the United States and Canada, including Shanghai Art Museum, Universität der Künste Berlin, Aedes Galerie in Berlin, McGill University and North Carolina State University.

He has lectured at numerous European, American and Chinese institutions, including Cincinnati Art Museum, University of Michigan, B.A.S.E. Beijing, RISD, UNCC and Tongji University. His writings appear in Time+Architecture, Domus, Urbanism Architecture, Thresholds (the MIT Press), etc. His co-edited book <Inter-Views: Trends of Architectural and Urbanism Institutions in North America and Europe >is coming in 2009.

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