Lanqing Gu M.Arch.

Associate researcher, Ph.D. candidate

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Bio

Lanqing Gu is a Ph.D. student in the Urban Health Games Working Group in the Architecture Faculty of TU Darmstadt.

After receiving the degree of Master of Architecture from Tongji University, Shanghai, China in 2017 and one-year teaching architectural sketch design in UPro Design School, Shanghai, she started her Ph.D. project in TU Darmstadt in 2018. Her research focus is on the relation between urban environment and mental health. The aim of Lanqing’s Ph.D. research is to identify urban design elements promoting restorative effects in arterial streets of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main agglomeration, Germany.

Since 2018.11 Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Ph.D candidate, Faculty of Architecture
2014.09 – 2017.06 Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Master of Architecture, College of Architecture and Urban Planning
2015.08 – 2016.03 Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Exchange student,Faculty of Architecture
2009.09 – 2014.06 Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China
Bachelor of Architecture, School of Architecture
Ongoing (since 2021.03) DFG funded Project “Urban design elements to promote mental wellbeing in inner-city arterial streets of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main agglomeration, Germany”
Ongoing (since 2019.07) Project “Traffic Calming Frankfurt Mainkai”
2017.10 – 2018.09 Textbooks “Architecture Design Sketch Strategies”
2017.10 – 2017.12 Future City international competition
2016.09 – 2017.05 Research of crossover practice of contemporary Chinese architects
2016.04 – 2017.05 2018 Solar Decathlon China
2016.07 Sharing space in a smart life
2015.05 – 2015.08 Book “Architecture Design Sketch: Topics, Analysis and Strategies”
2014.06 – 2017.06 Book “Shenzhen Contemporary Architecture”
2014.09 – 2015.01 Research of high density urban complex design
Since 2021.03 Associate researcher
Urban Health Games/Urban Design and Planning research group, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt
2019.11 – 2021.02 Research assistant
Urban Health Games research group, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt
2017.06 – 2018.09 Course Manager/ Senior Lecturer/ STEAM course Lecturer
Shanghai UPro Education Technology, Ltd.
2014.06 – 2017.05 Part-time Lecturer
Shanghai UPro Education Technology, Ltd.
2014.06 – 2017.06 Part-time Editor Assistant
Time+Architecture Journal, Shanghai
2016.04 – 2016.07 Assistant Architect
Lin Tung-Yen & Li Guo-Hao Consultants LTD. Shanghai
2012.03 – 2012.07 Assistant Architect
2013.05 – 2013.06 Integrated Design Research Institute, Zhengzhou University

Journals and conference papers


Gu, L., Batistatou, A., N. Delevoye-Turrell, Y., Roe, J., & Knöll, M. (2021). Using artificial ground color to promote a restorative sidewalk experience: an experimental study based on manipulated street view images. In: Proceedings of the International Colour Association (AIC) Conference 2021(pp. 709-714). Milan, Italy: AIC.


Pandit, L., Fauggier, G. V., Gu, L., & Knöll, M. (2020). How do people use Frankfurt Mainkai riverfront during a road closure experiment? A snapshot of public space usage during the coronavirus lockdown in May 2020. Cities & Health, 1-20.


Books and chapters


Gu, L. & Chen, R. (Eds.). (2020). Architecture Design Sketch Strategies: Start from the Form. Tongji University Press. ISBN: 9787560888170.


Gu, L. & Chen, R. (Eds.). (2020). Architecture Design Sketch Strategies: Start from the Site Planning. Tongji University Press. ISBN: 9787560888187.


Chen, R. & Gu, L. (Eds.). (2020). Architecture Design Sketch Strategies: Start from the Plan and Section. Tongji University Press. ISBN: 9787560888194.


Gu, L. (2018).Chapter 2:Basic Strategies of Different Types of Architecture in Sketch Design. In R. Chen (Ed), Architecture Design Sketch: Topics, Analysis and Strategies (pp. 2-7). Tongji University Press. ISBN: 9787560875309.

2017 Excellent Graduation Thesis of College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University
2015 Erasmus+ International Scholarship of Europe
2014 Outstanding Graduate of Zhengzhou University
2013 University-level First Class Scholarship of Zhengzhou University
2012 First Prize for the first Architecture Design Award of Henan Province
2011 University-level Second Class Scholarship of Zhengzhou University