Associate Professor ZHANG Junhua, born in Jiangsu (Zhejiang?) Province, P. R. CHINA, is now a Associate professor in the Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, Japan. Associate Professor Zhang holds a Bachelor of Sciences degree from Beijing Forestry University and was awarded his Master's degree and Doctorate of Philosophy from Chiba University.
He was previously an associate professor in the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China, from 1998 to 2004. He started to work in Chiba University as an associate professor in the Faculty of Horticulture since 2004 and then Associate professor in the Graduate School of Horticulture since the April of 2007. He now gives lectures and supervises Master and Doctoral students in the faculty and the school. As a landscape designer, Associate Professor Zhang has directed many international cooperative projects between Japan and China. He has co-directed the students from the Landscape Architecture School of Beijing Forestry University to win the prizes of Japanese Architecture Environmental Design Competition and International Student Competition of IFLA.
His many publications includes Landscape Trends, The Analysis Methods and Practice in Planning and Design, and Inward Garden?Japanese Traditional Garden Arts. In 2006 and 2007, he was elected the member of the Committee of Landscape Architectural Design of JILA, the International Committee of JILA and the Landscape Committee of Ministry of Construction of China.
Associate Professor Zhang is now carrying out the research survey in China on the theme of "Space Representation and Characteristics of Traditional Landscape Architecture Technologies". And his next plan is to carry on the comparative humanistic studies on the living environment from Japan-China to East Asia.