Digital Architecture in Contemporary China

Xu Weiguo is a professor and chair in the Architecture Department, School of Architecture in Tsinghua University. He was a visiting scholar at MIT in 2007 and taught in SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) and USC (University of Southern California) in 2011-2012. He studied architecture at Tsinghua University, and then started teaching at the same institution before moving to Japan to work for Murano Mori Architects. He was awarded his doctorate from Kyoto University in Japan. On returning to China, he established his own architectural practice (XWG Studio) in Beijing. He is a representative architect of digital architecture in China.