Architecture design studio Studio Shanghai is an architecture firm and team who believe that the building of habitable structures is not an exercise in theoretical design or a prescient inspiration of an individual designer or architect. Instead, we work with culture, climate, physical and spiritual elements, and flora and fauna of the region to make places that help people know where they are, and by extension know who they are. In other words, we are dedicated to creating places in which people feel they belong.

Studio Shanghai has planned and designed many cities, villages, buildings, and interiors to uphold a sense of lively and vibrant accessibility. Shanghai Xintiandi was our architectural practice first project in Shanghai China and has grown to be an integral part of Shanghai and its culture. Soldier Fields Stadium in Chicago, USA transcended the conventions of stadium design. For many years, we lived in ancient houses of Dong Hua Li in Foshan to learn the physical and spiritual language of the region before we designed anything for Lingnan Tiandi.

And the best is yet to come.

Studio Shanghai

The Studio Shanghai team is international and dedicated. Delphine Yip became Partner in 2005 after working with Ben Wood for almost a decade in Cambridge, MA and then Shanghai. She played an important role in many of the Studio’s project until she left Studio Shanghai in 2014.

Studio shanghai’s other key members:

Senior Associates:

Tao ZHONG

Tao became a Senior Associate after working with Studio Shanghai for 11 years since 2005 in Shanghai after receiving his master’s degree from TU Dortmund, Germany. Tao has been responsible for the Studio’s Chongqing XTD, Hongqiao Tiandi and some other notable projects.

Anna FU

Anna Fu joined in Studio Shanghai in 2006. With over 10 years of  architectural design experience in mixed use, commercial and renovation for all stages of project from concept, schematic design and design development. She has participated or taken charge of many projects including Shanghai Rainbow City Lot 3 Commercial Area, and Expo Chinese Housing Culture Area and so on.

Associates:

William WANG

William Wang has been actively involved in most projects since 2009 when he joined STUDIO SHANGHAI. As he is crazy about digital architecture and skillful in sketch-up, Rhino & Grasshopper, William is responsible for three dimensional studies of studio’s most projects.

Benjamin T. Wood, AIA, received his Masters in Architecture from MIT in 1984 after a career as a jet fighter pilot and restaurateur. Within a few years, Ben Wood was made Partner at Benjamin Thompson and Associates in Cambridge, MA and was in charge of the redevelopment of Spitalfields Market (3 million square feet) in London and Minato Mirai complex (3.5 million square feet) in Yokohama, Japan. Ben founded Thompson and Wood and then Wood and Zapata in Cambridge, MA in the 1990’s, authored master plans for Revitalization of New York’s Times Square (1993), Lincoln Road and the Art Deco District in Miami Beach (1992), Playhouse Square in Cleveland Ohio (1991), and developed growth management strategies for the Rocky Mountain resort towns of Snowmass, Aspen, and Telluride in Colorado and Park City in Utah.

His love for travel and architecture brought him to Shanghai, China where he set up Shanghai Studio, an architectural practice based in Shanghai – one of his favorite cities in the world.

Today, Ben is a Shanghai based architect who collaborates with the world’s most innovative leaders and thinkers to design environments that support life. The goal is simple – to create places, mostly outdoors, where people meet.

Benjamin Wood