Peter Rowe
Professor
Department of Urban Planning and Design

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

DEGREES 
Melbourne University, Australia, Architecture, BArch, 1969. 
Rice University, Urban Design, MArch in Urban Design, 1971.
Harvard University, AM (Hon.), 1986.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  Teaching
1987-  Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
2004-  Harvard University. Distinguished Service Professor.
1992-2004 Dean, Faculty of Design, Harvard University.
1988-92 Chairman, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
1985-90 Director, Urban Design Programs, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
1985-87 Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
1981-85 Director, School of Architecture, Rice University.
1977-85 Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Rice University. 
1977-85  Adjunct Associate Professor of Human Ecology, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas. 

  Research
1990-92 Executive Committee, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1979-81 Vice-President, Rice Center, Houston, Texas.
1978-81 Research Director, Rice Center, Houston, Texas.
1976-78 Program Director, Environmental Program, Southwest Center for Urban Research (SCUR), Houston, Texas. 
1973-76 Project Director, Rice Center for Community Design and Research, Houston, Texas. 

  Professional Practice
2004-07 Education Programme Director, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Geneva.
Major consulting assignments include: coordination of on-going surveys of architecture, planning and environmental design education programs in the Muslim world and those concerning conditions for practice in the Muslim world; curriculum development; oversight, for the Trust, of the Aga Khan Programs in Architecture at Harvard and MIT; organization and sponsorship of archiectural fora, symposia and lectures; oversight of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture; liason with the Aga Khan Historic Cities Support Program; and special assignments in development planning for the Aga Khan Development Network.
1981-87  Principal, Environmental Planning and Design, Houston, Texas. Major project involvement included: urban modeling, growth forecasting, environmental impact assessment, pre-design project analysis, urban design and planning and public policy evaluation.


PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY MEMBERSHIPS
Honorary Professor, Tongji University, 2003-
Honorary Member, Accademia dei Benigni, Italy, 2002-
Honorary Professor, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, 1999-
Honorary Member, Boston Society of Architects, 1986-
Associate Member, Urban Land Institute, 1986-2004
Member, American Planning Association, 1981-2004
Member, Institute for Urban Design, 1980-1990. Fellow, 1997-2001.
Honorary Member, Boston Society of Architects, 1986-


OTHER RECENT ACADEMIC AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
Member, Governing Board, UNESCO World Heritage Institute of Training and Research in Asia and the Pacific Region, 2008-
International Advisor, People's Municipal Government of Guiyang, China, 2007-
Member, Steering Committee, China Fund, Harvard University, 2006-
Vice Chairman, International Advisory Council, People's Municipal Government of Wuhan, China, 2005-
Senior Consultant, Building China Modern, Public Broadcasting System, 2002-2007
Member, Steering and Executive Committees, Asia Center, Harvard University, 2001-2004
Member, Board of Trustees for the Cities Programme, London School of Economics, 2001-2007
Board Member, Centre Canadien d'Architecture, 1995-2007
Senior Advisor, Center for Urban Development Studies, Tongji University, 2003- 2006
Jury Member, Manzanares River competition, Madrid, Spain, 2005
Chairman, Review Committee for the Department of Architecture, ETH, Zurich, 2005
Honorary Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Architecture and Studies, 2005
Jury Chairman, Hellenikon Project, Athens, Greece, 2004
Jury Member, Biblioteca de México José Vasconcelos, Mexico City, 2003
Member, Peer Review Panel, Doha Corniche Project, 2003
Member, Council on Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 2003-2004
Jury Member, Neri Award 2003 Industrial Design Competition, Cesena, Italy, 2003
Member, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Architecture Award Steering Committee, 2002-2004, ex-officio 2006-2007
Member, University Committee on Physical Planning, Harvard University, 2002-2004
Senior Advisor on Urban Planning and Design, City of Wenzhou, People's Republic of China, 2000-2002
Member, Senior Advisory Committee on Urban Planning and Design, City of Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, 2001-2002
Member, Dean's Circle, School of Architecture, Rice University, 2001-2005
Publisher and Editorial Board Member, Harvard Design Magazine, 1997-2004
Member, Academic Affairs Committee, Harvard University, 1992-2004
Honorary Consultant, Chair Committee on Architecture, Melbourne University, 1997-1998, 2002-2003
Member, Review Committee for the Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong, 2002
Jury Member, West Kowloon Reclamation Concept Plan Competition, Hong Kong 2001-2002
Member, Search Committee for Chief Planner of the City of Boston, 2000-2001
Member, Central Artery Corridor Advisory Group Task Force, City of Boston, 1999-2001
Chairman, Dean's Circle, School of Architecture, Rice University, 1998-2001
Jury Member, Harvey Milk Memorial Plaza Competition, San Francisco, 2000
Jury President, Olympic Village Competition, Athens, Greece, 2000
PUBLICATIONS

    Books and Monographs
Rowe, Peter G. Building Barcelona: A Second Renaixença. Barcelona: Actar, 2006, 207 pages. (Spanish and Catalan translations, 2007).
Rowe, Peter G. East-Asia Modern: Shaping the Contemporary City. London: Reaktion Press, 2005, 224 pages. (Korean translation, 2006).
Kuan, Seng and Peter G. Rowe (eds.) Shanghai: Architecture and Urbanism for Modern China. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 2004, 185 pages.
Rowe, Peter G., and Seng Kuan. Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2002, 287 pages (Chinese translation, 2004; Italian translation, 2005).
Lü Junhua, Peter G. Rowe and Zhang Jie (eds.) Modern Urban Housing in China: 1840-2000. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 2001, 303 pages. (Chinese translation, 2005).
Rowe, Peter G. and Hashim Sarkis (eds.). Projecting Beirut: Episodes in the Reconstruction of a Modern City. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1998, 302 pages.
Rowe, Peter G. L'Asia e il Moderno. Ancona: Transeuropa, 1998, 91 pages.
Rowe, Peter G. Civic Realism. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1997, 255 pages. (Paperback edition 1999).
Rowe, Peter G. Modernity and Housing. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1993, 408 pages. (Paperback edition 1995).
Rowe, Peter G. Making a Middle Landscape. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1991, 354 pages. (Paperback edition 1992).
Rowe, Peter G. Design Thinking. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1987, 228 pages. (Japanese translation 1988, paperback edition 1991, Chinese translation 1999).
Rowe, P.G., J. Mixon, B.A. Smith, J.B. Blackburn Jr., G.L.Callaway, and J.L. Gevirtz. Principles for Local Environmental Management. Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1978, 272 pages.
Bedient, Philip B. and Peter G. Rowe, (eds.). Urban Watershed Management: Flooding and Water Quality. Rice University Studies, Vol. 65, No. 1, Rice University, Houston, Texas, Winter 1979, 205 pages. 
    Recent Articles, Chapters and Proceedings
Rowe, Peter G. "How Big and How Fast: A Profile of china's Recent Urban Expansion" Harvard Asia Quarterly, (forthcoming)
Rowe, Peter G. "Density and Context: A Tri-natural Comparison", in Richard Marshall Den(City), Spon: London (forthcoming)
Rowe, Peter G. "Torre de Collsevda" in Ragna Körby (ed.) 7189Meter Politics and Architecture, Frankfurt: German Architecture Museum (forthcoming).
Rowe, Peter G. "The Awakening of the Giant, China and East Asia", in Luis Fernández-Galiano (ed.) Atlas, Global Architecture Circa 2000, Bilbao: Fundación BBVA, 2007, pp.222-235.
Rowe, Peter G. "Shaping Urbanizing China: Some Issues in the Pesent-Future", in Iker gil (ed.) Shanghai. Barcelona: Casa Asia (forthcoming).
Rowe, Peter G. "Urbanization and City Making in Contemporary China: The Matter of Scale", in Shan Wenhui (ed.) Urbanization China: Culture, Identity and Spatial Transformation. Shanghai: Fudan University Press (forthcoming).
Rowe, Peter G. " Not Longer Simply a Road: Madrid's M-30 Project." Arquitectura Viva, 107-108, 2006, pp.42-51 and El Pais, 22 November 2006, p.38.
Rowe, Peter G. "Networks Cities and China's Urban Peripheries." Networks Cities, 2006 (forthcoming).
Rowe, Peter G. “Modern Transition to Contemporary Realism: Changing Post-War Urban Conditions in Japan,” in Akira Suzuki and Mariko Terada, (eds.) Archilab 2006 Japan: Nested in the City. Orléans: Archilab, 2006, pp.24-28.
Rowe, Peter G. "The Spatial Transformation and Restructuring of the American City", in Jacqueline Tatom (ed.) Standing Firm on Middle Ground: Towards a Metropolitan Urbanism. New York: Routledge (forthcoming)
Rowe, Peter G. “Urban Design at Metropolitana: A Perspective from the Outside.” Cuadernos Unimetanos, 2006, p.5.
Rowe, Peter G. "Urban Design in Traditional Contexts in Contemporary Times: An International Discussion and Concluding Observations." Abadi: Quarterly Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, vol. 15, no.49, 2006, pp. 4-10.
Rowe, Peter G. "Concluding Remarks on Modern Housing in China." Archtiectural Journal (Chinese), no. 4, 2006, pp. 8-12
Rowe, Peter G. “Future Urban Divergences and Convergences.” Harvard College Economics Review (forthcoming).
Rowe, Peter G. “Shimokitazawa and the Effective Expression of Public Opinion.” Shimokitazawa Forum, March 2005, p. 2.
Rowe, Peter G. “Unforeseen Urban Worlds: Post-1956 Phenomena.” Harvard Design Magazine, Spring/Summer 2006, pp. 52-58.
Rowe, Peter G. “Hong Kong’s — New Territories, New Towns.” Abitare, no. 450, May 2005, pp. 118-125.
Rowe, Peter G. “Modernization in China,” in Luis Fernández-Galiano (ed.) China Boom: Growth Unlimited. AV Monographs, no. 109-110, 2005, pp. 6-21.
Rowe, Peter G., “Interview: A Reading of Bangkok (by Montira Horayangura). Art 4d, no. 114, April 2005, pp. 86-89.
Rowe, Peter G. and Bing Wang. “Formation and Re-Formation of the Architecture Profession in China: Episodes, Underlying Aspects and Present Needs,” in William Alford, (ed.) The Professions in China, 2005 (forthcoming).
Rowe, Peter G. “Interview: Urbanization in China” (by Anna Bokov). Project International, no. 7, 2004, pp. 121-128.
Rowe, Peter G. “Backward and Forward in Time: Urban Rehabilitation in The Xicheng District of Beijing.” World Architecture, no. 164, February 2004, pp. 50-77.
Rowe, Peter G.  “Foreword: An Architecture of Unfolding Experiences and Materials,” in James S. Russell, (ed). Architecture to Landscape: Ronald Bentley and Salvatore LaRosa. New York: 2wice Arts Foundation, 2005, pp. 8-12.
Rowe, Peter G. “Interview: Glimpses of China with Peter G. Rowe” (by Tomohisa Miyauchi). Architecture and Urbanism, no. 399, December 2003, pp. 10-15.
Rowe, Peter G. “Harvard Design School: Interview with Dean Peter G. Rowe” (by Hiroto Kobayashi). Architecture and Urbanism, no. 391, April 2003, pp. 6-15.
Rowe, Peter G. “Form and Size: Criteria for Designing a New Object.” Arredo e Città, vol. 16, no.1, 2003, p. 7-8.
Rowe, Peter G. “Foreword,” in Barry Scardino, Bill Stern and Bruce Webb (eds.) Ephemeral City: Cite Looks at Houston. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2003, pp. i-v.
Rowe, Peter G. “Dialogos,” in Joaquim Español (ed.) Invitación a la Arquitectura. Barcelona: RBA Libros, 2002, pp. 147-172.
Rowe, Peter G. “Dynamics of Urban Territorialization and the Space-Time of Its Landscape” in James Corner (ed.) Landscape and Urbanism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Rowe, Peter G. “It is the Qualities of People that Count Most” in Oscar Grauer (ed.) Redevelopment of El Litoral Central, Venezuela. Caracas: Universidad Metropolitana, 2001, pp. 10-12.
Rowe, Peter G. and Lei Huang “Realignments of Urban Development in China,” Harvard China Review, vol. 111, no. 1, Spring 2002, pp. 5-9.
Rowe, Peter G. “Professional Education and Practice,” in Ashraf M.A. Salama, William O’Reilly and Kaj Noschis (eds.) Architectural Education Today: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Lausanne: Comportements, 2002, pp. 25-30.
Rowe, Peter G. "A Difference of Degree or a Difference in Kind: Hyperdensity in Hong Kong," in Richard Marshall and Elizabeth Mossop (eds.). Hong Kong: the Defining Edge, 2001, pp.3-24.
Rowe, Peter G. "The East-Asian City Phenomenon." Lotus International, no.108, 2001, pp. 8-20.
Rowe, Peter G. "Rule Playing and the Ratbag Element," in Haig Beck and Jackie Cooper (eds.). Denton, Corker, Marshall : Rule Playing and the Ratbag Element, Boston: Birkhäuser, 2000, pp. 11-32
Rowe, Peter G. “La Tranformazione e il Progetto della Cittá Americana,” in Roberto de Rubertis and Adriana Soletti (eds.) De Vulgari Architectura. Rome: Officina Edizione, 2000, pp. 149-166.
Rowe, Peter G. “Design and the Civic Realm.” World Architecture vol. 1, 2000, pp. 76-80.

Selected Catalogs, Studio Publications and Exhibition Notes
Rowe, Peter G. and Seng Kuan (eds). A Crossection Through the City: Redevelopment of the Hanyang Riverfront in Wuhan, China. Cambridge Mass: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2005
Rowe, Peter G. Scales of Practice: The Work of Chan Krieger and Associates. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2004.
Rowe, Peter G. and Wu Yue (eds.) Shan Shiu City: Urban Development in Wenzhou, China. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2001
Rowe, Peter G. and Joaquin Casariego and Elsa Guerra (eds.). Environments of Opportunity: Redevelopment on the Waterfront of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2001. 
Rowe, Peter G. and Hashim Sarkis (eds.). Yi-Ti-Liang-Yi Zhi Jian: Redevelopment in Suzhou, China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1997. 
Rowe, Peter G. Reflections: Watercolors by Lauretta Vinciarelli. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1997. (Exhibit Note.)
Rowe, Peter G. Projecting Beirut. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1997. (Exhibit Note.)
Rowe, Peter G. and Hashim Sarkis (eds.). Isopolis: Addressing Scales of Urban Life in Modern Athens. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1997.
Rowe, Peter G. and Hashim Sarkis (eds.). Open City: Rebuilding Downtown Beirut's Waterfront. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1995.
Rowe, Peter G. Delayed Space: The Work of Homa Fardjadi and Mohsen Mostafavi, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Graduate School of Design, March-April 1993.
Rowe, Peter G. "Naturalness and Light: The Work of Itsuko Hasegawa" in The Work of Itsuko Hasegawa. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Graduate School of Design, December 1992.
Rowe, Peter G. (ed.). Urban Spaces of Barcelona (Prince of Wales Prize in Urban Design, 1990). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1990.
Rowe, Peter G. (ed.). Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti : Building for Cities. New York, New York : Rizzoli, 1989.
Rowe, Peter G. (ed.). Byker Project, United Kingdom and Malagueira Project, Portugal. (Prince of Wales Prize in Urban Design, 1988). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1988.


RECENT LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
World Cities Summit 2008, Singapore. Speaker and panelist "Planning for a Distinctive and Vibrant City", June 24th, 2008
China Committee of 100, Los Angeles. Speaker and panelist "Man and Environment: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives in Sustainability" April 18th, 2008
Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai, India. 10th International Conference on Humane Habitat. Keynote Lecture titled, "Modern East Asian Urban Development: Indigenous Responses", January 25th, 2008.
School of Architecture, Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The 51st Angan Lecture titled "East Asia Modern" January 22, 2008.
Fudan University, Shanghai, China. First Biennial Conference, Fudan University International Forum. Keynote Lecture titled "Urbanization and City Making in China: The Matter of Scale", November 3, 2006.
School of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto. Lecture titled, "East Asia Modern", October 24, 2006.
Colombian Society of Architects, Bogota, Colombia. Lecture titled "Shaping the Space of Time in Metropolitan Regions", May 17, 2006.
Center for Architecture, New York. Symposium, Barcelona-New York: Dialogues on Architecture and Urban Planning. Framing statement titled, "Barcelona: the Last Twenty-Five Years," and panel discussion moderator, March 18, 2006.
University of Metropolitana, Caracas Venezuela. Lecture titled "Taking Back the Streets," February 22, 2006.
Ministry of Land, Environment and Infrastructure and Keio University. International Symposium titled "Parks and Stations: Creating Cultural Cores." Lecture titled "Revitalization in Shinjuku, Shibuya and Shimokitazawa: An International Perspective," January 21, 2006.
Dallas Art Museum. Lecture titled "The Aga Khan Award for Architecture and Activities of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture," December 10, 2005.
City of Wuhan, China. International Advisory Council Meeting. Presentation titled "A Response to Wuhan's Urban Development in Favor of Urban Amenity," November 25, 2005.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Lecture titled "The Aga Khan Award for Archtiecture," April 10, 2005.
Ministry of Housing and Urbanization, Tehran, Iran. Workshop titled "Urban Design in Traditional Contexts in Contemporary Times." Co-organizer, moderator and panelist, May 26-28, 2005.
National Building Museum, Washington DC. Lecture titled "Shanghai's Architecture and Urbanism," March 14, 2005.
School of Architecture, Thammasat University, Thailand. International Symposium on Redevelopment Strategies for a Sustainable Bangkok. Keynote Address, February 1, 2005, and Visiting Professor and Workshop Co-ordinator, 'Redevelopment of the Makkasan Railroad Yards, Bangkok,' February 1-10, 2005.
Clonmacnoise Foundation, Athlone, Ireland. Workshop on Creation of an International Center for Local and Regional development. Panelist, May 26-27, 2004.
Bowdoin College, Maine. Lecture titled "Architectural Enounters with Essence and Form in Modern China," November 19, 2003.
Institute of Architects and Engineers, Wuhan, China. Lecture titled "The Evolution of Modern Architecture in China," October 22, 2003.
School of Architecture, Building and Planning, Melbourne University. Lecture titled "Shaping the Space of Time in Contemporary Cities," September 2, 2003.
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and transportation of Japan and Keio University. Lecture titled "The Boston Central Artery Project," January 25, 2003.
Landscape Architecture Department, University of Pennsylvania. Lecture titled "Dynamics of Urban Territorialization and the Space-Time of Its Landscape," April 6, 2002.
Keio University, Tokyo. Critic, design review, July 2, 2002, presentation titled "Tokyo Inner City Revitalization", Janurary 26, 2002, and symposium titled "Tokyo Inner City Project", September 3-6, 2001
Harvard University Asia Center. Lecture titled "The GSD and Design and Urbanization in East Asia," June 4, 2001.
Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland. Lecture titled "Professional Education and Practice," April 10, 2001.
Harvard University Asia Center. Seminar titled "Mid-Sized Chinese Cities: Suzhou and Wenzhou," March 2, 2001.
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Lecture titled "Transformation and Design of American Metropolitan Areas," January 10, 2001
National University of Singapore. Seminar titled "An Education Fostering Creativity in Contemporary Practice," August 7, 2000.
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Asia-Pacific Design Conference. Keynote lecture titled "Architectural Encounters with Quintessence and Form in Modern China," March 7, 2000.
City of Wenzhou, China. Lecture titled "The Transformation and Re-development of American Cities," February 17, 2000.
Universidad Metropolitana and Accion Cultural PDVSA, Caracas, Venezuela. Lecture titled "The Design of Civic Space and the Case of the Piazza del Campo," January 6, 2000.


RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
2007-10 Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University—East West Cultural Development Center, Singapore. Project titled "China Urban Research Fund Project".
2005-06 Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University–Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Project titled "The Middle Landscape in Bogotá, Colombia and Caracas, Venezuela."
2002-04 Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University–Regional Government of Emilia Romagna and the University of Bologna, Italy. Project titled, "Territorialization in the Region of Romagna, Italy."
2001-06 Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Project titled, "The Tokyo Inner-City Project".
1998-99  Co-Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Project titled, "The Joint Project for the Study of Greater Beirut."
1999 Co-Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design Harvard University–Al-Hariri Foundation, Lebanon. Project titled "Saida Regional Plan."
1996-99  Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University–Hanssem Corporation, Seoul, Korea. Project titled, "Urbanization in China and the North-East Asian Region."
1996-98  Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Asiaworld Internationale, Taipei, Taiwan. Project titled, "Assessment of the Cagayan Special Economic Zone in the Philippines."
1995-96  Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Project titled, "An Urban Design Program for Metropolitana University, in Caracas, Venezuela."
1995  Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Project titled, "A Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture for the University of Nuevo Leon, in Monterey, Mexico."
1989-91  Co-Principal Investigator, The Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University. Project titled, "Technological Change and Diffusion in the American House."
1989  Co-Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University–The Aga Khan Unit for Housing and Urbanization. Project titled, "Remote Sensing and Typological Analysis of Informal Settlements."