User:Cindychenchen

I am a native Chinese, born in the 1980s. My early ability to draw exceptionally well and to build complicated structures with Legos made me certain that I was to become an architect. And my naïve but romantic notions of what architects did propelled me into the college to study architecture. From mainland China to Hong Kong, from Paris to New York, every new city provides a huge transition for me. With my constant transformation and adaptation, the excitement and rewards of creativity through design; the transformation of complex programs into useful and visually rich environments; the fusion of art and technology in one discipline; and the occasional gratitude and recognition bestowed by design studio tutors and critics increase my awareness in architecture of theoretical issues and starting from a project, aiming at making connections with important ideas of our time, and meanwhile, “awareness” about my own design process and my life. Architecture is a process of constantly discovering and solving problems and in the process, my design is mature day by day.