The Sponge Evangelist
With the biennial Oberlander Prize in hand, Turenscape?s Kongjian Yu, FASLA, wants to expand the global profile of landscape architecture.
By Stephen Zacks
An old industrial site in 2020, before the construction of Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok. Photo © Turenscape, courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation.
In awarding the second biennial Oberlander Prize to the Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu, FASLA, the Cultural Landscape Foundation and its 2023 jury sent an unmistakable signal about the future of the field. For the prize, which seeks to function as a counterpart to architecture?s Pritzker Prize, Yu is a resonant international figure whose theory of sponge cities saw its influence and exposure steadily grow in the past decade. Gray infrastructure and channelized rivers of the past century are being increasingly daylit and replaced with naturalized environments that absorb water and restore wildlife habitats. Given the accelerating climate crisis and its impact on hydrological cycles, Yu now talks about the need for a ?sponge planet,? updated to reflect the urgency of climate adaptation facing human settlements worldwide. The Oberlander?s inaugural laureate, Julie Bargmann (see ?The Stranger Territory,? LAM, December 2021), highlighted landscape architecture?s concern for the quality of soil that life depends on with her focus on reclamation of land degraded by industrial production. Yu?s focus, by contrast, is on the crucial role of water for survival.
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