Yuyang Liu

Born in Taiwan and educated in the United States, Liu Yuyang received his Master in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and his B.A. in Urban Studies and Planning from the University of California, San Diego. While at Harvard, Mr. Liu conducted his thesis under Prof. Rem Koolhaas and co-authored the “Great Leap Forward”— a seminal work on the urbanisation of China’s Pearl River Delta, published by Taschen and 010 Publishers in 2001.

Having held a number of professional and academic positions in U.S and Hong Kong, Mr. Liu established the Shanghai-based Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects in 2007—regarded as one of the leading architectural studios in China with an emergent global recognition. The firm’s body of works ranges from the most pragmatic industrial compounds and public infrastructure on the one end, to the highly articulated and well-crafted buildings, spaces and campuses in the educational, R&D, cultural, and hospitality sectors on the other end. Through the unique narrative of each project, Mr. Liu seeks to create an architecture of specificity within the generic context of a globalised urban landscape, while searching for a poetic common ground and universal values.

Besides lecturing and publishing widely in China and beyond, Mr. Liu had been involved extensively in exhibition and curatorial works, most notably the 2007 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-annual Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, the 2011 Chengdu International Architectural Biennale, the 2012 Mock-up Architectural Exhibition at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, the Shanghai SUSAS exhibitions in 2015 and 2017, the theme installation and exhibition design of the China pavilion in the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture, the 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism Architecture Yantian Subfield in Shenzhen，as the chief curator of the 2020 Inaugural Sino-Europe Invitational Architectural Exhibition. And most recently, the Theme Image Installation Exhibition of the China pavilion in the 2021 Venice Biennale of Architecture and the 2021 Shanghai SUSAS exhibition, Caoyang Centennial Park Prelude Exhibition.