genarchitects

genarchitects was found in Shanghai in 2013. Whether in urban or natural environment, genarchitects insists focusing on the genuineness of designing and constructing, and hopes to find a calm and sincere answer towards the complicated and uncertain reality by discreetly dealing with site and functional requirements.

Under the leadership of three principals, FAN Beilei, KONG Rui and XUE Zhe, genarchitects engages in comprehensive architectural design practice. Its' diverse body of work includes educational, cultural and commercial buildings, extends from furniture to urban scale, and its representative works include Youyi Bay Community, Mi Casa Su Casa Club Hotel, Juanzong Apartment (2023), Dingshu Vocational School of Pottery (2021), and Yitingting Cottage (2019). Those works have won awards widely, including AIA China Design Excellence Awards, The Jury Special Project Award of Building with Nature · Architecture China Award, "Best of Best" of German Iconic Awards, Architizer A+Award, WAF World Architecture Festival Award, Italian THE PLAN Award, WA Chinese Architecture Award, DFA Design for Asia Awards.

genarchitects' work and study has been widely published in journals, including THE PLAN, Architectural Journal, World Architecture, T+A, Wallpaper, as well as in books released by Thames & Hudson Press, Birkhäuser, Images, China Architecture & Building Press and other important publishers. Its completed works,“Youyi Bay Community”and“Dingshu Vocational School of Pottery”were featured as cover projects in the April 2024 and May 2022 issues of Architectural Journal, respectively. genarchitects has been invited to various exhibitions, such as the Venice Biennale, the Sino-Europe Invitational Architectural Exhibition, "Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Architecture in China" exhibition at Harvard GSD.

As guest lecturers, the principles of genarchitects are now invited to participate in the design teaching work of the CAUP Experimental class at Tongji University. They also have been invited as guest speakers and critics by academies and institutions including Harvard University, University of Hong Kong, University of Queensland, Tongji University, Nanjing University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

亘建筑事务所于2013年在上海创立。无论是在城市环境中还是在自然条件下，亘建筑事务所都坚持关注设计与建造实践的真实状态，并希望通过审慎地对待场地要素和功能需求，为复杂而不确定的现实局面寻找到冷静而诚恳的答案。

亘建筑事务所在范蓓蕾、孔锐、薛喆三位主持建筑师的带领下，进行全方位的设计工作，项目类型涵盖从学校到美术馆，从桥梁到运动场，从家具到城市设计，代表作品包括：丁蜀成校、阿那亚友谊湾社区、友谊之家俱乐部酒店、卷宗公寓、一庭亭等。亘建筑事务所的作品曾获得包括美国AIA Shanghai年度杰出设计奖、自然建造Architecture China Award评委会特别奖、德国Iconic Awards创新建筑最高奖、美国Architizer A+Award建筑奖、英国WAF建筑奖、意大利THE PLAN Award建筑奖、WA中国建筑奖、上海建筑学会建筑创作奖等诸多奖项。

亘建筑事务所的建筑实践与设计研究被广泛刊载于《THE PLAN》《建筑学报》《世界建筑》《时代建筑》等学术刊物，并被收录于由英国Thames & Hudson、德国Birkhäuser、澳大利亚Images、中国建筑工业出版社等出版机构发行的多部专业著作中，其建成作品“友谊湾社区”和“丁蜀成校”曾作为封面项目，发表于2024年4月及2022年5月的《建筑学报》。亘建筑事务所及其作品亦曾获邀参加威尼斯建筑双年展（2023/2021）、中欧建筑邀请展（2020）、哈佛大学当代中国建筑展（2016）等重要展览。

亘建筑事务所的主持建筑师现担任同济大学建筑系客座设计导师，参与复合型创新人才实验班的设计教学工作，亦曾在东南大学、天津大学、中国美术学院进行教学和评图，并曾受邀在哈佛大学、香港大学、昆士兰大学、同济大学、南京大学、上海交通大学等著名建筑院校参与学术研讨活动及发表讲演。