Vol. 23 No. 1 (2025): Aperto. Per un ritratto dello spazio aperto / Open. For a portrait of open space
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Le linee, le acque, la terra. I parchi di Kongjian Yu per il XXI secolo / Lines, water, earth. Kongjian Yu’s parks for the 21st century

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  • Fabio Di Carlo
Fabio Di Carlo
Dipartimento di Architettura e progetto, Facoltà di Architettura di Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-18871

Published 2025-10-28

Keywords

  • Kongjian Yu,
  • Landscape architecture,
  • Sponge-city

How to Cite

Di Carlo, F. (2025). Le linee, le acque, la terra. I parchi di Kongjian Yu per il XXI secolo / Lines, water, earth. Kongjian Yu’s parks for the 21st century. Ri-Vista. Research for Landscape Architecture, 23(1), 38–43. https://doi.org/10.36253/rv-18871

Copyright (c) 2025 Fabio Di Carlo

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Abstract

Kongjian Yu died on 23 September 2025 in a plane crash in a rural area near Aquidauana, in the Pantanal region of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. He was 62 years old and was in Brazil to attend the 14th International Architecture Biennial in São Paulo, which was being held at the time. Yu, universally recognised as one of the most influential and prolific landscape architects of the 21st century, was very important to Ri-Vista, not only for his participation in our scientific committee, but above all for his influence, which can be seen in many of our published contributions.

With this short piece, we would like to remember him and thank him with esteem and affection, confident that his work will continue to permeate our design explorations.

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References

  1. Chen, W., & Yu, K. 2023, Per un’estetica dei ‘piedi grandi’: Dialogo con Kongjian Yu, «Ri-Vista. Research for Landscape Architecture», 21(1), pp. 50–65.