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Pu Miao

Associate Professor

Office: SoA 301E

Phone: (808) 956-3513

Fax: (808) 956-7778

E-mail: pmiao@hawaii.edu

Area of Specialty: architectural/urban design, Chinese architecture

Courses Recently Taught

ARCH 203 – Intermediate Architecture Studio

ARCH 402 – Asia Pacific Urban Design Studio

ARCH 390 – Special Topics (V) Design of the Garden.

Thesis Committee Duties

Educational Background

Ph.D. 1993, M.Arch.1985, University of California, Berkeley; B.Arch., Tongji University, China, 1982.

Registration

Registered Architect in the State of Hawaii

Teaching Experience

Professor Miao has taught design and theory at both undergraduate and graduate levels at UH since 1994. His students' works won AIA student competition awards and were featured in Honolulu 's newspapers. He has organized joint studios with architectural schools in the Asia Pacific region and served as a visiting professor internationally. Miao also is a faculty member in the UH Center for Chinese Studies.

Professional Experience

With more than twenty years of experience, Dr. Miao is engaged in a variety of architectural, urban design, interior, and landscape projects, providing full services including schematic design and construction documentation.

He specializes in "localizing" Modernist architecture on Chinese and Asian contexts. Beyond merely adapting Modernism to local settings, Miao tries to discover spatial experiences rich in the region but overlooked by the Western Modernists. Some of these experiences may have a universal appeal and may contribute to the further development of today's Modernism.

Dr. Miao's designs have been published in Liu Erming and Yi Feng, eds. Chinese Architecture Since 1980: Memories and Solutions of Young Architects (Beijing: Encyclopedia of China Publishing House, 1997) and leading Chinese and international architectural journals. He has been invited to discuss and show his design work by architectural schools and art exhibitions.

Miao's built designs (all located in China) include New Jiangwan Ecological Exhibition Center, Shanghai (2004); Reception Center, Minhang Ecological Garden, Shanghai (2002); Hillside Villa, Green Valley, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province (2001); Teahouse, Xiao-lang-di Dam Park, Luoyang, Henan Province (2000); Rural Church, Zhuzhou, Hunan Province (1999); and Gate and Restaurant, Sanquan Park, Shanghai (1997).

He also provided numerous architectural, landscape and planning schemes for projects to be realized, such as a high-rise residential development, a high-density mid-rise condominium, an urban park (the above three were in Shanghai), a church, a library, a clubhouse, an art institute and a college building (the above five were in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China).

Research Experience

Dr. Miao is the editor and co-author of Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities: Current Issues and Strategies ( Dordrecht , The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001). As the first publication on an important but understudied topic in English literature, the book received good reviews in leading academic journals such as City and Journal of Asian Studies .

Dr. Miao has published research papers on the localization of Modernism, urban design principles in Asian high-density environment, gated communities in China, criticism of contemporary Chinese architecture, phenomenological studies of Chinese traditional architecture, urbanism and garden, and film and architecture in international journals such as Journal of Urban Design, Landscape, Nordic Journal of Architectural Research, Place, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements, Architect (China), Architectural Journal (China), Time+Architecture (China) and Journal of Building and Planning (Taiwan). He has been invited to give presentations to international conferences on these subjects.

Recent Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity

Currently Dr. Miao is working on several architectural and planning projects in China . He intends to use his design experience to develop a theory on the localization of Modernism in a non-Western context.

Recent Publications

"Deserted Streets in a Jammed Town: The Gated Community in Chinese Cities and Its Solution," Journal of Urban Design, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2003.

Current Academic, Professional and Public Service

Dr. Miao was the Executive Co-Chair of the Sixth International Symposium on Asia Pacific Architecture, Shanghai (2005), jointly sponsored by UH and Tongji University. He also serves as a member of the Lectures Committee, School of Architecture , UH.

Selected Writings by Pu Miao

Note: The texts are provided here for the sole purpose to facilitate the research of students in or intending to enroll in Dr. Miao's classes at UH.

"Design with High-Density: A Chinese Perspective"

In Pu Miao, ed., Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities: Current Issues and Strategies ( Dordrecht , The Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 273-93

"In the Absence of Authenticity: An Interpretation of Contemporary Chinese Architecture"

Nordisk Arkitekturforskning (Nordic Journal of Architectural Research) , Vol. 8, No. 3, 1995, pp. 7-24

"Worlds Apart: Common Meanings in Classical Gardens of East and West"

Landscape , Vol. 31, No. 3, 1992, pp. 40-7

"The Two Themes: Settings in Fellini's Films"

Places , Vol. 7, No. 3, 1991, pp. 4-5

"传统的本质 -- 中国传统建筑的十三个特点 ( The Essence of Tradition--Thirteen Characteristics of Chinese Traditional Architecture)" (in Chinese)

Architect ( Beijing ), Vol. 36 (December 1989), pp. 56-67 and Vol. 40 (March 1991), pp. 61-80 ( Beijing : China Architecture and Building Press); and Journal of Building and Planning National Taiwan University , Vol. 5, No. 1 (February 1990), pp. 57-72

"用自己的声音说话 -- 近作二则兼论 '本土化'(Speaking in One's Own Tone--Recent Work and 'Localization')" (in Chinese)

Architect ( Beijing ), No. 106 (December 2003), pp. 20-8