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Indeed, one of the key characteristics of Li Hu and Huang Wenjing's oeuvre is its ability to address the future in a multiplicity of ways. Or we could say that their ability to address their horizon, in nearly all of their projects, is the future in a very concrete way. --Yehuda Safran The work of OPEN carries the energy, optimism, and spirit of new urban architecture that we both aim for. --Steven Holl OPEN's projections under the rubric of distance are provocative in their suggestion that modern Chinese architecture should neither be borrowed from the urban sceneries of the Western city nor derived from some distant pagoda or a Beijing hutong, but emerge from the very landscape in which urbanization takes place. Mimicry has served its purpose. It is time for Earth to step forward. --Lars Lerup At a time when libraries and schools are increasingly becoming places for public interaction, a trend as prevalent in China as anywhere else, the formulation of a new type of school capable of compensating for the alienation of the universal megalopolis is an event of considerable consequence. Such is the Garden School, completed in 2014, in the Fangshan district of Beijing, to the designs of OPEN, led by the architects Li Hu and Huang Wenjing. --Kenneth Frampton

"""At a time when libraries and schools are increasingly becoming places for public interaction, a trend as prevalent in China as anywhere else, the formulation of a new type of school capable of compensating for the alienation of the universal megalopolis is an event of considerable consequence. Such is the Garden School, completed in 2014, in the Fangshan district of Beijing, to the designs of OPEN, led by the architects Li Hu and Huang Wenjing."" --Kenneth Frampton ""Indeed, one of the key characteristics of Li Hu and Huang Wenjing's oeuvre is its ability to address the future in a multiplicity of ways. Or we could say that their ability to address their horizon, in nearly all of their projects, is the future in a very concrete way."" --Yehuda Safran ""OPEN's projections under the rubric of distance are provocative in their suggestion that modern Chinese architecture should neither be borrowed from the urban sceneries of the Western city nor derived from some distant pagoda or a Beijing hutong, but emerge from the very landscape in which urbanization takes place. Mimicry has served its purpose. It is time for Earth to step forward."" --Lars Lerup ""The work of OPEN carries the energy, optimism, and spirit of new urban architecture that we both aim for."" --Steven Holl"

The work of OPEN carries the energy, optimism, and spirit of new urban architecture that we both aim for. --Steven Holl OPEN's projections under the rubric of distance are provocative in their suggestion that modern Chinese architecture should neither be borrowed from the urban sceneries of the Western city nor derived from some distant pagoda or a Beijing hutong, but emerge from the very landscape in which urbanization takes place. Mimicry has served its purpose. It is time for Earth to step forward. --Lars Lerup Indeed, one of the key characteristics of Li Hu and Huang Wenjing's oeuvre is its ability to address the future in a multiplicity of ways. Or we could say that their ability to address their horizon, in nearly all of their projects, is the future in a very concrete way. --Yehuda Safran At a time when libraries and schools are increasingly becoming places for public interaction, a trend as prevalent in China as anywhere else, the formulation of a new type of school capable of compensating for the alienation of the universal megalopolis is an event of considerable consequence. Such is the Garden School, completed in 2014, in the Fangshan district of Beijing, to the designs of OPEN, led by the architects Li Hu and Huang Wenjing. --Kenneth Frampton

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Mr. Li Hu and Ms. Huang Wenjing are founding partners of the Beijing based firm OPEN Architecture which has quickly risen to international recognition in recent years. Prior to OPEN, Mr. Li Hu was a partner of Steven Holl Architects. And Mr. Li Hu and Ms. Huang Wenjing are founding partners of the Beijing based firm OPEN Architecture which has quickly risen to international recognition in recent years. Prior to OPEN, Mr. Li Hu was a partner of Steven Holl Architects.

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