Across Chinese Cities – China House Vision Hua Li of TAO

Founded by Mr. Hua Li in 2009, TAO (TRACE ARCHITECTURE OFFICE) is a Beijing based design studio committed to architecture, urban, and landscape design. Being critical at contemporary architecture as an obsession to fashionable forms in the context of media driven globalized consumerism, TAO visions architecture and its environment as an inseparable whole and architecture is always a part of its surroundings rather than an isolated object. With most projects positioned in particular cultural and natural settings in China, TAO aims to make architecture deeply rooted in its social and environmental context with respect of local condition. The sense of place, response to climate, efficient use of local resource, appropriate material and construction method, such essential issues are always explored in every TAO project responding to its specific situation.