{"id":500089,"date":"2026-03-28T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500089\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:56:09","slug":"cambridge-top-architect-francois-penz-relocates-to-china-from-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500089\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge top architect Francois Penz relocates to China from UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The school of architecture and urban planning of Nanjing University announced the appointment on its social media account on March 17.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[175699,6510,6225,6485,175701,6486,1190,10912,891,175702,175700,1120,155181,96,935,175698,10599,3659,28111,4161,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-500089","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-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","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}