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Founded in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 2004 and 2007 respectively, besides, has set up a new office in Hangzhou since 2021, Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects works to build socially inclusive and spatially innovative architecture, landscape, and urbanism. The firm’s works are recognized by their research-based and program-driven approach with a primary interest in the public realm.

Under the leadership of Mr. Liu Yuyang, the practice has been carried out in recent years in four areas, Education & Workspace, Culture & Leisure, Renovation & Regeneration, Landscape & Infrastructure. Based on the unique narration of each work to create vivid scenes and spaces, seeking meaningful poetry and value.

Widely published and exhibited, the firm’s notable projects include the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art (2005), Shanghai Nanjing Rd. Pedestrian Kiosks (2009), Shanghai Minsheng Wharf Waterfront Landscape and Reconnection Infrastructure (2019). Recent awards include Dezeen Award Hospitality Building of the Year (2019) and Gold medal for ARCASIA Award for Architecture (2019). Besides, has multi participated the large-scale exhibitions, such as the Venice Architecture Biennale, Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale, Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, etc.


  • Founder & Principal: LIU Yuyang
    Founder & Principal: LIU Yuyang

    RIBA Chartered Architect
    Honorary Member of the Shanghai Architectural Society Academic Committee
    Visiting Professor, School of Design, Shanghai Jiaotong University

    D. Kenneth Sargent Visiting Critic, School of Architecture, Syracuse University


    Born in Taiwan, China 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.


  • Deputy Partner, Project Leader: WU Congbao

    Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huai’an
    Bachelor of Engineering, 2003-2008

    The Architectural Society of Shanghai China, Shanghai
    Member, 2014-Present

    Class 1 Registered Architect of China
    2019-Present


    wu.congbao@alya.cn

  • Project Leader, Head of Hangzhou Office : Patrick Zhang

    Canada McGill University
    Master of Architecture, 2014-2016

    Canada McGill University
    Bachelor of Architecture, 2009-2013


    zhang.jingqian@alya.cn

  • Associate Partner, Urban Design Project Leader: YU Miao

    ETH Zurich
    Master of Urban Design, 2016-2018

    Jilin Jianzhu University
    Bachelor of Architecture, 2006-2011


    yu.miao@alya.cn

  • Project Leader / Technical Design Leader: Wu Ziheng

  • Project Leader: Mavis Fan

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Master in Architecture, 2003-2005

    Hong Kong Certificated Architect


  • Senior Project Architect : Deng Yan

  • Senior Project Architect: Maggie Tan

    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
    Master of Architecture, 2012-2014


    Northwestern Polytechinal University
    Bachelor of Architecture, 2007-2012


  • Project Architect: ZHOU Xiaochen

    Columbia University
    Master of Architecture, 2017-2018


    Shenzhen University
    Bachelor of Architecture, 2008-2013


  • Project Architect: WANG Yakun

    Qingdao University of Technology

    Bachelor of Architecture，2010-2015

  • Project Architect: FAN Yunzhou

    Master of Architecture

    The University of Edinburgh, UK，2017-2019


    Bachelor of Architecture

    Shenzhen University， 2012-2017

  • Project Landscape Architect : WANG Yifan

    Harvard University Graduate School of Design
    Master of Landscape Architecture, 2016-2020


    Peking University
    Bachelor of Urban Planning, 2011-2016


  • Project Architect: LIU Zehong

    Tongji University
    Bachelor of Architecture, 2015-2020

  • Assistant Architect: Florence Zhu

    Master of Architecture

    the University of Hong Kong，2019-2021


    Bachelor Architecture

    University of Toronto，2014-2018


  • Assistant Architect: GAO Man

    Master of Architecture

    Washington University in St. Louis，2017-2019


    Bachelor of Architecture  

    Shenzhen University，2012-2017


  • Assistant Architect: MEI Zheng

    Master of Architecture

    University of Toronto, 2018-2020


    Bachelor of Architecture

    Inner Mongolia University of Technology, 2011-2016



  • Assistant Architect: ZHAO Han

  • Assistant Architect: QI Chuhan

    Master of Science

    The University of Edinburgh, 2021-2022


    Bachelor of Architecture

    Shandong Jianzhu University, 2016-2021


  • Assistant Architect: FANG Yuan

    University of Toronto, Master of Architectural Design

    University of Toronto, Bachelor of Art: Architectural Design and Visual Studies

  • Director of Research Affairs, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA): ZHAO Jia

    Bachelor of Engineering

    Hunan University of Science and Technology, 1999-2004


    business@alya.cn


  • PMO Observer: Qi Jingyan

  • Administration & Finance Director：Sherry Wang

    finance@alya.cn

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The notion of community as a physical space and meta-physical conception is vital to a culturally inclusive and aesthetically progressive society. Likewise, we believe that architecture as a social construct and a disciplinary production cannot exist in isolation. Connected within a community of China’s most notable design offices and a network of international experts, we see our collaborative works not as a singular strand of projects but as a field of communal exchange and creative dialogue.Our work is not only to provide an guiding design strategy but also to maximize the resources of all sides. Connected within a community of architects, landscape designers, product designers, investors, artists, curators, business planners, community organizers, organic farmers, technologists, and NGOs, we take specific actions, walk into communities and work with the locals. We collect ideas from various groups of people for creative proposals to build a brand-new type of smart community in the future.