丹尼斯.弗伦彻曼,麻省理工学院城市设计教授,城市设计与发展项目组主任,管理着城市规划项目的研究生计划。同时也在房地产中心任教。他是波士顿ICON建筑公司的创始人兼总裁,这是一个从事国际建筑业、城市设计与规划的公司。他曾作为世界银行行长詹姆斯.沃尔芬森的在城市宜居性方面的顾问并负责中国、韩国、意大利、西班牙、以色列、巴西的城市设计项目。他曾任美国建筑院校联合会(Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture)和国家建筑师认证协会董事会(National Architectural Accrediting Board)董事。丹尼斯.弗伦彻曼的实践和研究方向主要是城市未开发地区的交通,包括很多世界遗产遗址和地区。他对工业地区的复兴有着特殊兴趣,同时对纺织工业城市、运河、铁道、钢铁工业、煤矿及油田、船坞及港口这些地区的复兴制定了完备的计划。其中,他为Lowell国家历史公园和纽约城市文化公园体系制定的方案被作为美国城市文化发展的典范。他是城市中心商业区及周边地区复兴方面的专家。工程包括西百老汇全面复兴计划,是美国解决超负荷公共住房问题的样板。他是将先进的通信和媒体技术应用于城市设计的专家,也为政府和企业建立大规模技术型发展提供咨询,包括韩国Seoul Digital Media City;北京International Media Avenue;西班牙萨拉戈萨Digital Mile;巴西弗洛里亚诺波利斯Sapiens以及法国嘎纳市的技术发展。他在该领域的专著被大量出版,曾三次被美国规划协会(American Planning Association)评为全美最杰出著作。他荣获麻省理工学院高级建筑学研究硕士学位和城市规划硕士学位。
Dennis Frenchman is Professor of the Practice of Urban Design at MIT, where he is Director of the City Design and Development group and chairs the Masters in City Planning program. He is also on the faculty of the Center for Real Estate. He is a founding principal of ICON architecture in Boston, an international architecture, urban design and planning firm. He has served as External Advisor on urban livability to World Bank President James Wolfenson and has led urban design programs in China, Korea, Italy, Spain, Israel, and Brazil. He also served on the boards of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the National Architectural Accrediting Board. Dennis Frenchman’s practice and research focuses on the transformation of underutilized areas of cities, including many significant world heritage sites and districts. He has a particular interest in the redevelopment of industrial sites and has prepared plans for the renewal of textile mill towns, canals, rail corridors, steels mills, coal and oil fields, shipyards and ports. Among these, his plans for Lowell National Historical Park and the New York Urban Cultural Park System have become standards for urban cultural development in the US. He has played a major role in the renewal of downtown commercial centers and neighborhoods. Projects include the West Broadway Comprehensive Renewal Program, a national model for the revitalization of severely distressed public housing. He is an expert on the application of advanced communications and media to city design and has consulted to governments and firms on large-scale technology centered developments including Seoul Digital Media City, Korea; International Media Avenue, Beijing, China; Digital Mile, Zaragoza, Spain; Sapiens, Florianopolis, Brazil, and technology development in Cannes, France. His work in these areas has been widely published and has been citied three times as the most outstanding in the United States by the American Planning Association. He holds a Master of Architecture in Advanced Studies and a Master of City Planning Degree from MIT.
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