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FAN Beilei

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principal architect

FAN Beilei is the principal of genarchitects, First-class Registered Architect (PRC), RIBA Chartered Member, and Visiting Lecturer of Tongji University. Fan received a Master of Architecture and a Bachelor of   Architecture from Tongji University and a Master of Urban Design from   Technische Universität Berlin.

KONG Rui
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principal architect

Kong Rui is the principal of genarchitects, RIBA Chartered Member, on the   Council of IVA-ASC. Kong received his Master of Architecture degree from   Nanjing University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Xi'an University of   Architecture and Technology. 

XUE Zhe
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principal architect

XUE Zhe is the principal of genarchitects, RIBA Chartered Member. Xue received his Master of Architecture (MArch) degree from Peking University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Xi'an University of Architecture and   Technology. 

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genarchitects was found in Shanghai in 2013, under the leadership of three principals, FAN Beilei, KONG Rui and XUE Zhe, genarchitects engages in comprehensive architectural design practice. 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.

genarchitects' diverse body of work includes educational, cultural and commercial buildings, extends from furniture to urban scale, and its representative works include Dingshu Vocational School of Pottery (2021), Yitingting Cottage (2019), Warehouse Renovation in Jingan (2018), Shangsi'an Cottage (2016), Fuli Garment Factory Renovation (2015). Those works have won awards widely, including AIA China Design Excellence Awards, WA Chinese Architecture Award, DFA Design for Asia Awards, "Best of Best" of German Iconic Awards, Architizer A+Award, Italian THE PLAN Award.

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, and other important publishers. 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.

The principals of genarchitects has been invited as guest lecturers to teaching design studio at Tongji University. And they have been invited as guest speakers and critics by academies and institutions including Harvard University, The University of Hong Kong, Tongji University, Southeast University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.