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Benjamin T. Wood is an American architect who designed Shanghai’s famous Xintiandi which means “New Heaven and Earth” a refined cluster of traditionally styled Shanghai brick town houses near the old French Concession district.Wood flew the Mach II Phantom RF-4 jet aircraft for the US Air Force for five years.At 31 he enrolled in a graduate architecture program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon graduation Wood worked with Benjamin C.