Ming Song Xu Xu, Ming Song

Architectural historian and critic of architecture and urbanism; Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Ming Chuan University. Master of Architecture from the Venice School of Architecture (IUAV); licensed architect in Italy.

Publications include Le Corbusier: City, Utopia and Surrealism (柯比意——城市‧烏托邦與超現實主義; Garden City Publishers, 2002); Classicism, Defiance and Irony: Renaissance Architects from Brunelleschi to Palladio (古典‧違逆與嘲諷——從布魯涅列斯基到帕拉底歐的文藝復興建築師; Garden City Publishers, 2003); Love Reading 01 – Architecture: The First Door into Architecture (愛讀本01‧建築：打開建築的第一道門; general editor and co-author, Eslite Bookstore, 2005); Laureates of Architecture: Masters of the Pritzker Prize (建築桂冠——普立茲克建築大師; co-author, Ecus Publishing House, 2005); the exhibition catalogue Long Time No See, Mr. Wang Da-hong! (久違了，王大閎先生！; co-author, Architect Magazine, 2006); Wang Da-hong: Eternal Poet of Architecture (王大閎——永恆的建築詩人; Ecus Publishing House, 2007); The Making of the National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall: Wang Da-hong’s Compromises and Trials (國父紀念館建館始末——王大閎的妥協與磨難; editor, National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, 2007); Brutal and Poetic: Taiwan’s First Generation of Postwar Architecture (粗獷與詩意——台灣戰後第一代建築; Ecus Publishing House, 2008); Architect Wang Da-hong 1942–1995 (建築師王大閎 1942-1995; Eslite Bookstore, 2010); 蔡柏鋒: An Experimenter of Form without Prejudice (蔡柏鋒 不帶偏見的形式實驗者; Ecus Publishing House, 2012); Architect Wang Da-hong 1942–1995 (simplified Chinese edition, Tongji University Press – Luminocity, 2015); and Toward Modernity: The Social Thinking of 高而潘’s Architecture (走向現代 高而潘建築的社會性思考; Ecus, 2015).