The school of architecture and urban planning of Nanjing University announced the appointment on its social media account on March 17.<\/p>\n
Penz is an emeritus professor at the university, a former director of The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, a fellow of Darwin College and director of the Design, Visualisation and Communication Digital Laboratory.<\/p>\n
He was selected for China\u2019s National Leading Talent Programme in 2025, having already collaborated with Nanjing University for many years before joining full-time.<\/p>\n
Born in France in 1953, Francois Penz studied architecture at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne in Switzerland in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n
Before arriving, his knowledge of Cambridge was limited to its rowing rivalry with Oxford. He spent the next 45 years at this university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The school of architecture and urban planning of Nanjing University announced the appointment on its social media account…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3939],"tags":[244027,4023,4021,4020,71423,276,26748,1395,12219,244028,4022,244029,77,1699,244026,106203,53848,47141,2600,16,15],"class_list":["post-856090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-apple-computers","tag-architecture","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-arts-and-humanities-research-council","tag-cambridge","tag-cambridge-university","tag-china","tag-darwin-college","tag-department-of-architecture","tag-design","tag-ecole-polytechnique-federale-de-lausanne","tag-entertainment","tag-european-union","tag-francois-penz","tag-nanjing-university","tag-oxford","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-switzerland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}