The architect “showed in a practical and poetic way how the landscape can be a vital infrastructure to urban resilience, ...

Yu Kongjian, the pioneering landscape architect behind China’s “Sponge City” model, died in a plane crash on Sept. 23 in Brazil’s Pantanal region, where he was conducting an ecological study. He was ...

The architect, who died in a plane crash in Brazil, was the driving force behind 'sponge cities' that have been embraced across the globe Few architects and urban planners have had the global impact ...