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Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.

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I don't use tools to create things, but I use them to realize things.

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Sometimes I sketch and then scan my sketch directly to make the curves more freehand. I don't want to make perfect industrial curves.

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I think, in our modern cities, there are a lot of boxes; there are a lot of straight lines. They often deal with efficiency, the function, the structure.

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People love to go closer to nature and other people, so we need to create environments that let people have these emotional connections.

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In traditional cities like Beijing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, nature was a very important part of urban planning - not only as a landscape but a part of daily life.

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What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that's the most challenging thing I want to try in my architecture.

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I don't like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don't appear any different from those in the past.

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I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.

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I'm trying to express nature in big cities.

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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Type: Architect

Born: Unknown

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