Balancing the Conceptual and The Actual; A Studio Snapshot of Preliminary Research Office

2018-11-12T09:00:00-05:00

Led by Chloe Brunner, Dingliang Yang and Yaohua Wang, Preliminary Research Office has been making a name for itself as an emerging practice leveraging contemporary motifs, exceptional techniques, and potent design schemes to consistently push the boundaries of what a young office can do in today's practice focused climate.

For this week's Studio Snapshot, we talk with two of the office's principals Chloe Brunner (CNB) & Yaohua Wang (YHW) about the practice's origins, their unique work approach, along with a view into their approach to the discipline through theory, buildings, and models.

Student Works: "Townization", a new Chinese urbanization paradigm from the GSD

2014-12-26T10:43:00-05:00

It would be something of an understatement to say the last thirty years of urbanization in China have been rough. Rapid and often unsustainable growth made newly transitioned cities difficult to maintain and economically fraught, burdened by their own heft. So when the Chinese government revised its strategy in 2013, it focused on more subtle and adaptive goals. Dingliang Yang, an urban planning student at the GSD, has a plan to make sure that happens.

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Balancing the Conceptual and The Actual; A Studio Snapshot of Preliminary Research Office

Student Works: "Townization", a new Chinese urbanization paradigm from the GSD