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":352229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[186487,1889,442,498,186489,499,500,16659,186486,607,186490,186488,501,156886,156,2487,186485,58763,111,139,69,45968,14095,1769],"class_list":["post-352228","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-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","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-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oxford","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}