Design Philosophy
I design a house instead of a building. The house is the amateur architecture approach to the infinitely spontaneous order.
Built spontaneously, illegally and temporarily, amateur architecture is equal to professional architecture. But amateur architecture is just not significant.
One problem of professional architecture is, that it thinks too much of a building. A house, which is close to our simple and trivial life, is more fundamental than architecture. Before becoming an architect, I was only a literati. Architecture is part time work to me. For one place, humanity is more important than architecture while simple handicraft is more important than technology.
The attitude of amateur architecture, - though first of all being an attitude towards a critical experimental building process -, can have more entire and fundamental meaning than professional architecture. For me, any building activity without comprehensive thoughtfulness will be insignificant.
Competitions
June 2005, International Architecture Design Competition for the Ningbo Historic Museum
April 2005, Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction
Awards
Five Scattered Houses in Ningbo, Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction, Sep. 2005 (Acknowledgement)
Xiangshan Campus, Academic Award from the Architecture Art Award of China, 2004
Wenzheng Library, Architecture Art Award of China, 2003
Important Projects
Ningbo Museum, Ningbo
Xiangshan Campus, Hangzhou
Wenzheng Library, Suzhou
Vertical Apartment, Hangzhou
Sanhe House, Nanjing
Five Scattered Houses, Ningbo
Publications
Magazines
“World Architecture”, Beijing
“Building Review”, Shanghai
”Time + Architecture”, Shanghai
”Bauwelt”, Germany
“Architect”, China
Books
“Made in China”
Catalogs
TuMu, Aedes Gallery
Current Projects
Ningbo Historic Museum
Second stage of Xiangshan Campus of China Academy of Arts
Huamaotang Art Gallery
