Chih-Wei G.V. Chang

Chih-Wei G.V. Chang is the director of Gravity Praxis, and project leader at Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Urban Design.

He has 12 years of experience working internationally as a landscape architect and environmental consultant. His practices have been focusing on functional landscapes in the urban environment, and currently conducting the research ‘High Performance Landscape for Innovative Design’ at University of Cologne. He has built projects in United States, China, UAE, Japan and Indonesia. Several of his projects were recognized by American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Awards and by International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA).

Mr. Chang was trained as an architect and licensed as a landscape architect in California. He served as Co-Chair at ASLA’s International Practice Professional Network from 2015 to 2017. He is a member of Environmental Water Resource Institute (EWRI) at American Society of Civil Engineers, and an accredited professional of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED-AP). Mr. Chang received Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Harvard University, and led an urban watershed design studio at San Francisco’s Academy of Art University.