Joe Carter

Joe Carter was born in Ottawa, Canada, studied architecture at McGill University and then worked in St. John’s, Newfoundland, where his architectural designs won awards. Moving to China in 1986, he taught design in the Tianjin University School of Architecture until early 1989 when he moved to Beijing. He worked for Chinese design institutes and foreign architects before founding his own firm, Towns Consultants. In 2003, Towns won an international competition to design the new campus in Beijing for the Central Academy of Drama. Joe’s book Some Thoughts on China and the New World Order was published in Chinese and English by the Workers’ Publishing House, Beijing, in 2009. In 2014-15 Joe and his wife, He Hongyu, were the Gerald Sheff Visiting Professors in the School of Architecture at McGill University, and now live in Montreal.