Faculty portfolios

PhD, Master of Urban Planning, and Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University

Seng Kuan earned his PhD in architecture from Harvard University with a dissertation on the work of Kenzō Tange and the genesis of urban design in postwar Japan. He also has a graduate degree in urban planning from the same school. He is an editorial associate of the journal a+u and curator of the Kenzō Tange Archive in Tokyo.

Seng is a curator of the exhibition Metabolism, the City of the Future: Dreams and Visions of Reconstruction in Post-War and Present-Day Japan, held at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo in fall/winter 2011. He also curated the exhibition Utopia Across Scales: Highlights from the Kenzō Tange Archive, held at Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2009. He is editing an anthology of recent scholarship on Tange and postwar Japanese architectural culture (Lars Müller, spring 2012).

Prior to his work on modern architecture in Japan, his work on China resulted in two books: Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China (MIT Press, 2002) and Shanghai: Architecture and Modernism for Modern China (Prestel, 2004).