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Mr Hilgefort, Jason Richard

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Adjunct Assistant Professor

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Mr Hilgefort, Jason Richard

Title:
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
University of CincinnatiBUP
University of British ColumbiaMArch
American Planning AssociationAICP
Biography

Jason Hilgefort is an urbanist | architect who studied at the University of British Columbia, University of Cincinnati, and is currently a PHD candidate at RMIT. His work experience ranges from New York, Rotterdam, to Mumbai and includes working with Peter Calthorpe, Rahul Mehrotra, Maxwan A+U, and ZUS. He lead Maxwan’s numerous competition victories in Helsinki, Basel, Kiev, Brussels, Ostrava, Hannover, and Lithuania before winning Europan 11 in Vienna. He subsequently founded Land+Civilization Compositions, a Rotterdam | Hong Kong based studio exploring issues at the ever expanding edge of urbanism that views city creation as an art.forum. Currently LCC is constructing Forest Park in Guangming, Shenzhen; detailing its winning urban public space design for Qianhai; and competing in a series of competitions in the Greater Bay Area.

Jason’s teaching experience includes Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, Finland, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. He was a subcurator in the Shenzhen/Hong Kong Urbanism/Architecture Biennale and a co-director of its educational platform. He is  the Academic Director of Aformal Academy for urbanism | landscape | public art in Shenzhen. He is also a regular writer, contributing to assorted publications over the years including Volume, Architecture Review, Domus, AD and more. He recently co-founded the Institute for Autonomous Urbanism which is focused on how the disruptive developments of dispersed infrastructure frame a moment in time where we can fundamentally reconceive of how we make, fund, and even conceptualize the world that surrounds us.

 
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
2020-12-01Gold Award, The Greater Bay Area Urban Design Awards 2020 (Student Category): The GBA Urban Design Alliance
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