Studio Becker Xu
Architecture Firm Chicago / United States
Studio Becker Xu is an architecture & design studio driven by a collective curiosity for what it means to be human. As designers and creative problem-solvers, we are in search of moments in our built environment that activate different scales of community and can more meaningfully shape our shared experiences. Locally, our practice contemplates, speculates, and engages the Chicago community with both built and unbuilt proposals, like Lawndale Gathering Tree - a playscape for the forthcoming One Lawndale Children’s Discovery Center, a new children’s museum for Chicago’s West Side, and Won’t You Be My Neighbor - a reimagined two-flat housing for the Come Home Initiative to support missing middle infill housing in Chicago’s South & West Side neighborhoods. More broadly, our projects also consider and challenge how they each fit into a wider historical, ecological, and sociocultural context.
Studio Becker Xu is an architecture & design studio driven by a collective curiosity for what it means to be human. As designers and creative problem-solvers, we are in search of moments in our built environment that activate different scales of community and can more meaningfully shape our shared experiences. Locally, our practice contemplates, speculates, and engages the Chicago community with both built and unbuilt proposals, like Lawndale Gathering Tree - a playscape for the forthcoming One...