Bio

Based in Beijing, Xu Tiantian is the founding principal of DnA Design and Architecture. Tiantian received her Master of Architecture and Urban Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and her Baccalaureate in Architecture from Tsinghua University in Beijing. She is the recipient of the WA Chinese Architecture Awards in both 2006 and 2008, the Young Architects Award from the Architectural League of New York in 2008, a Design Vanguard feature by Architectural Record, and the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture in 2019. Tiantian has designed projects such as the Songzhuang Art Center and Ordos Art Museum. In the past years, she has engaged extensively with rural revitalising processes and initiated “Field Work Station” in Songyang, as an open platform for artists and designers to exchange with rural culture.