10 outstanding Chinese female architects and their representative works

1. Founder of
Xu Tiantian
DnA Architects, Chief Architect

Bachelor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Master of Architecture and Urban Design, School of Design and Research, Harvard University; he has practiced in many architectural firms in the United States and Europe. DnA _Design and Architecture was founded by Xu Tiantian in Beijing in 2002. Since its establishment, the studio has been invited to participate in relevant professional activities such as the Contemporary Chinese Architecture Exhibition of the German Architecture Museum and the 2008 UCCA-AAC Beijing Forum; won the 2006 and 2008 “WA China Architecture Award”, and was selected by the American Urban Design Council in 2009 Selected 2008 Architectural Firm, Design Pioneer selected by New York Architectural Record; Xu Tiantian, the founder of the firm, was selected for the British <Architectural Review> International Young Architects Award in 2008 and the New York Architectural Alliance Young Architect Award, and was awarded the British ICON in 2009 The magazine selected as the 20 most influential young architects in the world, and was shortlisted for the China Architecture Media Award China Young Architects Award in 2010. Since 2014, DnA Office has been committed to the construction of rural China, intervening and repairing the local rural environment with acupuncture-style small public buildings, renewing the context and stimulating subsequent development. In October 2021, DnA Architects won the Fassa Bortolo International Sustainable Architecture Gold Award from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ferrara, Italy, and Fassa Srl for their “Tofu Workshop”. Up to now, 17 projects published by DnA on gooood have received wide attention and praise.

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25 – Xu Tiantian gooood Interview NO.25 – Xu Tiantian
uses architectural acupuncture to renew the rural context
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Representative works of DNA

Tofu Workshop, Songyang, Zhejiang / DnA Architecture Office
Tofu Factory, China by DnA_ Design and ArchitectureExperience
the traditional tofu making
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Brown Sugar Factory , Songyang / DnA Architecture Office
Brown Sugar Factory, China by DnA_Design and Architecture
The stage produced
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Baitasi Hutong Art Museum, Beijing / DnA Architects
Baitasi Hutong Gallery in Beijing, China by DnA_Design and Architecture Studio Curved surfaces and
courtyards create a modern art museum in the living area of ​​old Beijing
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2.
Founder of Qishanshan
STUDIO QI
Architects, Chief Architect, Doctor of Architecture

In 2021, she was awarded the UNSUNG HERO Special Contribution Award by the international FEMALE FRONTIER AWARDS, and the 100 Outstanding Women in a Sustainable World in 2020. He studied at Columbia University as an undergraduate and received the highest honors, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded the special honor of “Centennial Scholar”. Later, he graduated from Harvard University in the United States and received a four-year master’s degree in architecture and the Pieteris Foundation Award. She used to work in Renzo Piano Office, a famous architect, and established an independent female architectural firm in 2013. Qi Shanshan was introduced as a special talent and taught at Zhejiang University, and has served as the architectural graduation design tutor of China Academy of Art. Qi Shanshan is now devoted to thinking about Chinese urban issues and Chinese rural practice, reflecting on how to transcend geographical limitations and bring Chinese culture to the world. She firmly believes that architects must have a strong sense of responsibility and sensitivity; and architecture, in the final analysis, is looking for a “just right” state. She has visited Tibet more than 60 times so far, and since 2016, she has participated in the design and construction of the Songtsan Yunnan-Tibet line and the national “Suji” project.

STUDIO QI Architects, founded in the United States by Qi Shanshan in 2012, now has a creative and research office in Hangzhou.

Architecture is a way of thinking, architecture is the carrier of human observation and dialogue with society, and at the same time, it is the link between nature and the world; and architects must be thinkers, who help build social and ecological relationships. Thinking about architecture means constantly articulating the assumed context that constitutes our understanding of the world. Architecture is small and the world is big. Architecture is a way of thinking that acts outside of architecture. Adhering to this concept, STUDIO QI insists on using a completely different creative thinking and design language, focusing on building the delicate relationship between people, architecture, nature and society, using the speculative 2.5-dimensional architectural theory to explore and Research the force of architecture and tap the potential energy of architecture in society.

STUDIO QI has won many international architectural awards, including the AIA American Institute of Architects Architecture Award, the European LEAF Green Leaf Architecture Gold Award, the A&D Asia Pacific Architectural Design Gold Award, the American WAF Master Architect Award, the WA World Architecture Best Living Award and the Technology Progress Award, etc. Published in THE PLAN, DEZEEN, DOMUS, PPAPER, Archdaily, Designboom, WA and many other international journals and reported by well-known media.

Creativity under 35: Qi
Shanshan Under 35 – Shanshan Qi
seeks architectural boundaries in 2.5 dimensions
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STUDIO QI representative works

An Zhi Ruo Su · Mountain, Yunnan / STUDIO QI
ANNSO HILL, China by STUDIO QI
is beautiful,
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Flying Skull Collection Yellow River, Ningxia / STUDIO QI Architects
STRAY BIRD – YELLOW RIVER, China by STUDIO QI Build
a house with sunlight and air
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Empty Mountain Nine Posts · Qinling Suji, Shaanxi Liuba / STUDIO QI
LONE-M HOTEL · QINLING, China by STUDIO QI
Ride the “air flow”
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3. Tang
Ziying
Zhang Tang Landscape Founder, Partner/Chief Designer

He holds a bachelor’s degree in urban planning from the School of Urban Planning and Architectural Design of Chongqing Jianzhu University, a master’s degree from the School of Urban and Environment of Peking University, and a master’s degree in landscape design from the University of Massachusetts (UMASS). He has worked as a senior designer in Beijing Turen Landscape, EDAW (one of the four major landscape design firms in the United States), Stephen Stimsion Associates, and Martha Schwartz Landscape (MSI). Zhang Tang Landscape was co-founded in Shanghai in 2009 by Mr. Zhang Dong and Ms. Tang Ziying. After recent years of practice in landscape planning, site design, art installations, and ecological technology, Zhang Tang’s influence in the global landscape design field has gradually expanded. His work Vanke Architecture Research Center won the 2014 ASLA General Design Honorable Mention, Suzhou Zhonghang Yueyuan Inner Court won the 2017 ASLA Public Design Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects. From 2017 to 2019, Zhang Tang Landscape has won the most popular landscape design works of gooood every month for three consecutive years.

Gooood Interview Album Issue 21 – Zhang Tang Landscape
gooood Interview NO.21 – Z+T Studio
appreciate nature, understand nature, and do high-quality participatory landscape projects.
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Zhang Tang’s representative works of landscape

2014 ASLA Universal Design Honor Award: Vanke Architecture Research Center / Zhang Tang Landscape
Vanke Research Center / Z+T Studio
To achieve a low-maintenance landscape, this project addresses two main issues.
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Yueyuan
Courtyard, Suzhou, China by Z + T STUDIO The inner courtyard of AVIC Yue Garden in Suzhou

Cloud Paradise
Park , Chengdu / Zhangtang
Landscape

4. Co-founder of
Chen Chen Critical Studio

Graduated from the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University, in 2010, he obtained a master’s degree in Landscape Urbanism from the London Architectural Union College. In 2013, he obtained a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Harvard School of Design as an outstanding graduate, and won the highest graduate design award of the year. She has won several international awards for her architectural design and landscape urban design: American Society of Landscape Architecture Award (2011, 2013), first place in the international competition for the renovation of Zurich Dubendorf Airport (2012), International Landscape Architecture Alliance Design Competition The third place (2011), the first prize of the French International Sustainable Architecture Design Competition (2008). Several works have been invited to participate in the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Rotterdam International Architecture Biennale and the French Architecture Annual Design Exhibition. reMIX Critical Studio was founded in Beijing by Chen Chen, Federico Ruberto and Nicola Saladino. From hutong renovations to small installations to large-scale public projects, it has been welcomed by gooood readers.

Creative people under the age of 35: Chen ChenUnder
35 – Chen Chen
breaks the boundaries of disciplines, intervenes in architecture with the method of landscape, and creates an integrated space of architecture, landscape and interior.
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Representative works of critical studio

2011 ASLA Student Awards {4} Universal Design Honorable Mention: Vertical Territories / Chenchen, E. Scott Mitchell, Amy Whitesides
Vertical Territories / Chenchen, E. Scott Mitchell, Amy Whitesides
Vertical Territories. Chen Chen, a landscape architect from China, along with E. Scott Mitchell, Amy Whitesides. This is their design assignment during their studies at Harvard University.
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“Gathering and Separation” – 2020 Suzhou International Design Week Pavilion / Critical Studio
Together Apart – 2020 Suzhou International Design Week Pavilion, China by reMIX studio
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The Overlapped Campus: Lianhua Primary School, China by reMIX Studio High
-density vertical partitioned campus
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5.
Xia Murong
, founder of Mur Mur Lab

Bachelor of Architecture from Southeast University, architect, curator, animation, picture book writer, writer, shortlisted for the 2020 Forbes China U30 Elite List. 2019 IDEAT Future Award Idealist Future Award Person of the Year, 2019 FRAME Annual Emerging Designer Nomination, domus “Youth 100+” designer. Mur Mur Lab was founded in Shanghai in 2016 by Xia Murong and Li Zhi. Mur Mur Lab takes architecture as the core and continuously stimulates the establishment of elegant and interesting aesthetic paradigms through creativity. Using design as a tool for urban renewal and social improvement, focusing on future shops, urban installations and the revival of tiny architectural spaces. Not limited by tradition, seeing the truth in unexpected situations, and creating daily surprises are Chinese Whispers in the eyes of “Frame”. Xia Murong is not only an excellent architect, but also a gentle mother. She and Hou Zhi co-created “Wan: The Little Vitruvian Man” depicts his three-year daily life as a novice architect as a mother and his daughter, Wanwan. The picture book has a high score of 8.2 points on Douban Reading, and is deeply loved and praised by many readers. . In Xia Murong, we not only see the creativity and competence of architects, but also the warmth and delicacy of women and the greatness of mothers. She also responded on the album of creative people under 35: “Women have many roles in society, and the burden is very heavy. Femininity may be like an outlet, filtering out some bad things and putting some Things are expressed softly and softly.”

Creative people under
35: Xia Murong Under 35 – Xia Murong
falls in love with creation and dreaming, and uses design to bring a touch of warmth to people.
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Mur Mur Lab representative works

Snow Hill , Shanghai / Xia Murong
Snow Hill by Wutopia Lab
One person’s art museum
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Xiao Chun Ri He Pu / Mur Mur Lab
Xiao Chun Ri He, Small Store, Shanghai by Mur Mur Lab
Magic Capital Store staged a white hole, galaxy, planet, future quartet – no matter how small the dream is, it all shines.
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Mur Mur Lab
Public Health Service Facilities in Jichang Plot, Jiading District, Shanghai by Mur Mur Lab
A quiet little house by the river
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6.
Li Ziling
, founder of WAY ​​Studio

Graduated from the University of Waterloo, Canada with a Master of Architecture, and has 5 years of international architectural design experience, working in Boston, London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. Wei·Architectural Design Institute was founded in 2015 by Li Ziling, Zheng Tao and Hong Qinzhe, and currently has studios in Beijing, Hong Kong and Vancouver. Wei/WAY takes artistic experience as the starting point and expands the definition of “architectural design” in countless cross-border collaborations. In the project, Li Ziling mainly controls the communication, design and coordination in the design stage. Wei/WAY Studio is one of the 20 interesting young representatives of Gude Online in 2018. In 2019, its work AYE restaurant renovation project received extensive media and film and television attention, and was shortlisted for two awards: A+ top design and restaurant design. . In the same year, AYE Restaurant Renovation and 2118 Future Vision Project also won the IDPA International Pioneer Award and the LuxLife Pioneer Designer Award respectively. In addition, the West Hall project won the BUILD Cultural Project Award in 2021.

Creatives Under 35: WAY Studio
Under 35 – WAY Studio
design is a pursuit. We hope to let everyone go to a non-real environment through design.
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WAY Studio representative works

MS-II Restaurant, Beijing / WAY Studio
MS-II Restaurant Design, China by WAY Studio
A brief surreal experience
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Children’s Growth Center in the Forest, Beijing / WAY Studio
In The Forest, Beijing, China by Way Studio
A relaxed and natural children’s education space
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West Wing (Art Museum): Silk Road Cultural Exchange Center, Langfang City, Hebei / WAY Studio
West Wing (Art Museum): Langfang Silk Road International Cultural Exchange Center, China by WAY Studio
See and be seen, appreciate art in a light space
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7. Founding Partner of
Jiang Yingyuan Project, Chief Architect

Graduated from the Versailles School of Architecture in France with a master’s degree in architectural design. In 2000, he was selected for the Sino-French exchange program “One Hundred Architects Going to France”. He was awarded the 2001 architect scholarship established by French President Chirac. In 2004, he obtained the French national registered architect qualification. He returned to Guangzhou and set up Yuan Plan Studio the following year, trying to start his own architectural exploration in Shangfu, which is extremely industrialized and commercialized in South China. At the end of 2007, Jiang Ying and He Jianxiang jointly established Yuanjiao Architects and began to explore more independent architectural practice. At the same time, he actively tries to establish cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary relationships in architecture. He has won many domestic and foreign design awards and participated in important design exhibitions and cultural exchange activities. In 2014, he was employed as a visiting assistant professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Hong Kong, and participated in the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Architecture Biennale and the Venice Architecture Biennale for many times. “Design” was selected as one of the top 10 international design pioneering firms by the American Institute of Architects magazine “Architectural Record” (Architectural Record).

OFFICE Truth Album NO.22 — Yuan Plan Architects
OFFICE FACT NO.22 – O-office Architects
The twenty-second issue is the source plan architects from China.
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Source Plan Representative Works

A Silent Celebration – Lianzhou Museum of Photography /
Lianzhou Museum of Photography, China by O-office Architects
Radical yet rustic.
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Gao Ming’s reconstruction of Chuancha Manor, Foshan / Re)forming Duichuan
Tea Yards, China by O-office Architects

Jinding Bay Auditorium, Guangdong /
Chapel of the Jinting Bay, Guangdong, China by O-office Architects
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8.
Liu Chen
MINOR lab is the founder of Architecture

Graduated from RMIT University with a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Architecture (Distinguished). After that, he worked in Beijing Zhixiang Architectural Design Office as an assistant partner. MINOR lab as Architecture was founded by Liu Chen in the summer of 2017 in Beijing. The studio is located in Langjia Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing, and was transformed from a courtyard house. As a young firm, Jizuo is committed to exploring the best balance between time, space and people from the research of the site environment, the exploration of functional demands, the experimentation of material structure, and the control of construction. Cai Liechao, co-curator of “Designing Things” and founder of Mario Tsai Studio, commented on the ready-made works that “the structure is clearly expressed, and there is no superfluous and deliberate design language”. In 2018, one of his works, the PAGEONE office and art exhibition hall, won the Taiwan Golden Dot Award. Gooood will also conduct an in-depth interview with Liu Chen and MINOR lab, and provide readers with a more detailed report on their works.

MINOR lab is a representative work

Jizuo Architecture Studio Renovation, Beijing / Jizuo Architecture
The Birth of MINOR Lab and The Rebirth of A Courtyard
Hutong
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PAGEONE Office and Exhibition Space Reconstruction, Beijing /
PAGEONE Office and Exhibition Space, China by MINOR lab
Reconstruction of Hutong Theater
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Urban Paradise : Exhibition Space Design of ” Taikang Collection Exhibition”, Shenzhen / Just-made
Architecture

9. Partner & Design Director of
Ju Angel Grey Space Architecture Office

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Tianjin Urban Construction University and a double master’s degree from Bauhaus University of Tongji University. He joined Grey Space Architecture in 2017. In 2014, Ju Anqi ranked first in the total score under the tutelage of Tongji Li Xiangning and Zhang Xiaochun, and followed the instructors to participate in the Shanghai Urban Space Art Season. During her study at Bauhaus University, she further deepened her theoretical knowledge and social studies-related knowledge. subject. Solid theoretical foundation, good design taste, love for concrete and common understanding of design make Ju Anqi appreciated by the other three partners of Grey Space. The founding team’s educational background in Tongji University, as well as the gradually growing, diversified and international perspective, make the architectural practice of gray space rooted in regionalized architecture and space exploration, seeking to intervene in the site in a more active way, combining functional requirements, topography Conditions, local culture, regional materials and construction techniques, etc., to achieve authentic and simple local architecture. Gooood will also conduct in-depth interviews with Ju Anqi and Grey Space Architecture in the future, and provide readers with a more detailed report on their works.

gray space representative works

Heterogeneous Off-Road: “Art Intervenes in Urban Space” – Concrete Pavilion, Shanghai /
Greyspace Architects Concrete Pavilion in Heterogeneous Adventure, China by Greyspace Architects
Interpretation and regeneration of urban scenes
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Reconstruction of Leftover Space near Shanghai Yongjia Road, China by Greyspace ArchitectsA unique
scene that is visible, usable, lingerable, and shareable
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Yimeng Cloud House, Linyi, Shandong / Yimeng
Cloud House, China by Greyspace Architects
Space roaming at the foot of the mountain
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10.
Ding Huizhong
Evelyn Ting
New Office Works Founder & Managing Director

Bachelor of Architecture from Columbia University, Master of Architecture from MIT, and a registered architect with the American Institute of Architects. She has worked at Knox Bhavan Architects in London, Ensamble Studio and Approach Architecture Studio in Madrid, and was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Teaching assistant at the Graduate Core Design Studio, member of the curatorial team of the US Pavilion at the 14th Venice Biennale, and currently a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong. New Office Works was founded by Evelyn Ting and Paul Tse in Hong Kong. Evelyn has extensive experience in architectural and editorial work environments, having served as an editor for numerous architectural publications and has published articles in Log, Fulcrum, Hinge, and San Rocco. After NOW was established, Evelyn, in addition to chairing architectural projects, has also A series of urban studies and editing of publications were carried out in the work. In her eyes, writing and architectural design have a lot in common, how to arrange the plot of the article and how to experience architecture and make it a story in the city. From 2019 to 2021, NOW won the AIAHK Architectural Merit Award, Taipei International Design Award (Public Space Design Category), American Architect Award (Small Building and Installation and Structure Category) and many other awards for its Growing Up Pavilion.

Creatives under 35: New Office Works
Under 35 – New Office Works
spends its time on the little things and uses the humble to create the “poetic” of architecture
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representative work

Growing Up Booth, Hong Kong / New Office Works
Growing Up by New Office Works
showcases the urban characteristics of Hong Kong.
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North Point Church, Hong Kong / New Office Works
North Point Church, China by New Office Works
Lightweight and natural
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Booth Design for the M+ Museum at Art Basel Hong Kong by New Office Works Human
Library
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Happy Holidays to all female readers, architects, and designers!

Editor: Shi An AnnSHI