Portrait of YANG ZHAO

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YANG ZHAO

Architect

Master of Architecture, Tsinghua University

Master of Architecture, Harvard University

Studied under Kazuyo Sejima, the Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect

Founded Zhao Yang Studio in Beijing in 2007

Winner of the WA Chinese Architecture Award in 2010

Selected for the Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative in 2012

Invited to the 20th anniversary exhibition From Asian Everydayness at Tokyo's Gallery MA in 2015

Appointed as a design tutor at the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University in 2019

Named Esquire Designer of the Year in the same year

The studio's projects Rice & Friends Farm Restaurant and Market, and Xizhou Bamboo Retreat were selected for the China Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018 and 2021

Zhao Yang Architects has been selected several times for the AD100 list

Invited to lecture at Tsinghua University, Harvard University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tohoku University in Japan,

the Geoffrey Bawa Trust in Sri Lanka and other academic institutions