Liu Haowei

Liu Haowei (Chinese: 刘昊威; pinyin: liú hàowēi), is a Chinese architect who graduated from the School of Architecture of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and is the founder of CAA architects. Member of the Architectural Art Committee of the China Artists Association, an expert consultant of the Art Design Institute of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, a guest professor of the Ningbo Research Institute of Zhejiang University, and the "Person of the Year" of the Chinese version of GQ Magazine.
==Career==
In 2006, Liu Haowei founded CAA architects , a Beijing-based practice with offices in New York and Hong Kong, which has developed a worldwide design practice and has led projects of various types and scales.
In 2018, he founded CAA LAB, the research and development institution of CAA architects. In the same year, CAA LAB developed China's first design software based on AR technology - SZ App; in 2021, it launched the "Mars Housing Plan" aimed at exploring and innovating the second residence of human beings; in 2022, it founded META CAALAB.
==Design Theory==
Liu Haowei proposes the Neo-futuristic idea of Design For Tomorrow, integrating Oriental Humanism spirit to create adaptive, resilient and future-oriented designs. His strong intention is to combine Architecture and Art together, to conduct interdisciplinary design practice between society, ecology, media, and technology, and redefine how this two disciplines of Architecture and Art can impact on future cities in the era of sustainability and digital technology. 
As a Chinese architect, oriental humanistic thoughts and philosophical views have always been the source of his creation, thus forming his unique design language; his design concept also revolves around the three dimensions of "life", "nature" and "future". He believes that architecture is an organic and dynamic living body, with a structure and organization similar to life forms. At the same time, he also advocated the naturalization of architecture, proposed the symbiosis mechanism between architecture and nature, created a pro-nature space system, aroused people's surreal imagination of nature extending to the cosmic dimension, and realized the integration and symbiosis of architecture, human and nature. In addition, deeply influenced by "The Neo-Futuristic City Manifesto", he proposed the pioneering urban concepts of Universe Traveling City, Reflected Vertical City, and Suspended City, showing a new futuristic design language and shaping the future "City of Tomorrow" , namely "Design for Tomorrow".
==Signature Projects==
===Architecture===
* West Mountain Innovation Valley | Beijing Collaborative Innovation Park, Beijing, China,2020-present
** The 40th WA Awards, 2022
* CAFA Qingdao Campus, Qingdao, China, 2017-2019
** IDA Design Awards Gold Winner, 2022
** Dezeen Awards "Visualisation of the Year", 2022
* Ocean's Heaven | Maldives Airport Economic Zone Development, Hulumale, Maldives, 2018
* Wandering in the Clouds | Korea Samcheok Yisabu Dokdo Memorial Park, Samcheok, Korea, 2017
** German Design Award, 2019
** IDA Design Awards Silver Winner, 2017
* Dali Nanzhao Folklore Island, Yunnan, China, 2016-2017
* Weifang Art Center, Shandong, China, 2014-2015
* Israel Day Care Center, Beersheba, Israel, 2013
* Zhong Huan Plaza Art Center, Shijiazhuang, China, 2012
* New Element Photographic Academy, Beijing, China, 2010
===Interior===
* CASA TALIA Restaurant, Beijing, China, 2019
* MQ Studio, Beijing, China, 2018
* SIR. TEEN Club, Beijing, China, 2015
* Simile Angel Children's Hospital, Beijing, China, 2012
* Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway Interior Design, 2009-2012
===Exhibition and Art Installation===
* Crystal Space City, LEGO China, 2020
* End of The World, Chengdu, China, 2013
* City Evolution, China, 2012
==Awards and Honors==
* 2023 MUSE Design Awards Platimun Winner
* 2022 IDA Design Awards Gold Winner
* 2022 Dezeen Awards "Visualisation of the Year"
* 2022 Dezeen Awards "Website of the Year"
==Lectures and forums==
* 2020 Global New-Energy Auto Forum, Delivered a speech "Sustainable Urban Design", Beijing
* 2019 NetEase&ART Home Forum, Delivered a speech "Design For Tomorrow", Shanghai
* 2016 Alibaba Group’s Ant Creative International Design Forum, delivered a speech "The Non-Architectural Future of Architects", Hangzhou
* 2015 Shanghai Architects Fair, delivered a speech "Material+Form=Life&Complex", Shanghai
* 2014 China Youth Design Forum, delivered a speech "The Future of Innovation", Beijing
* 2014 TED×BUCT conference, delivered a speech "Reconstruction Past upon Future", Beijing
* 2014 Invited speaker at the Shanghai "Future Living Space" Forum, hosted by the Dutch design magazine "Objekt", Shanghai
* 2013 Central Academy of Fine Arts, delivered a speech "History of CAA", "DesignValue", Beijing
* 2013 Global Fortune Forum Artist Invitational Exhibition, exhibiting the work "End of the World", Chengdu
* 2012 China "Art Beijing Expo", exhibited the work "City Evolution", Beijing
* 2011 Beijing "Urban Theater" Artist Invitational Exhibition, exhibited the work "Floating Organism", Beijing
Category:Chinese people
Category:Architects
Category:Central Academy of Fine Arts alumni
Category:Founders