Jing Liu (architect)
Jing Liu (born 1980) is a Chinese architect and co-founder of the award-winning design firm SO – IL in New York City.[1]
Biography
Jing Liu received her education in China, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, concluding with a Master of Architecture from Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans.
In 2008 Liu founded SO – IL with Dutch architect Florian Idenburg.[1] In 2010, the firm won the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program with Pole Dance a highly experimental and interactive structure installation.[2] They went on to design the award-winning Kukje Gallery in Seoul. The design of Kukje Gallery marks an important moment in the architecture today in which "one finds a multidimensional architecture in step with the ambiguous spatiality of the digital era," wrote the British architectural critic Sam Jacob in Domus.[3] In 2012 and 2013, SO – IL was commissioned to design the inaugural presence for the Frieze Art Fair in New York City.[1][4] Working with a prefabricated rental tent structure forced them to be inventive with a limited vocabulary. Pie-shaped tent section wedges bend the otherwise straight tent into a meandering, supple, shape. The winding form animates it on the unusual waterfront site, as well as establishing the temporary structure as an icon along the water.[1][4] In Spring 2013, SO – IL won a competition to design the new Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California at Davis.[5]
Liu has taught at Columbia University’s GSAPP, Syracuse University, School of Architecture, and at Parsons The New School for Design.
References
- 1 2 3 4 Julie Belcove, "Ahead of the curve", Financial Times, 9 March 2012
- ↑ Julie Iovine, "A Serious Couple's Fun Project for This Year's PS1 Beach Party", The Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2010.
- ↑ Sam Jacob, "Between Matter And Meaning", Domus Magazine, 14 May 2012
- 1 2 Sameer Reddy, "Scoping Art at a Four-Day Island Getaway", The Wall Street Journal, May 3, 2012.
- ↑ Joseph Flaherty, "A New Art Museum Whose Ceiling Creates Inspiring Outdoor Spaces", Wired, 2 July 2013.