TEKTONN ARCHITECTS was founded in Paris, and established a permanent office in Chengdu in early 2018.

Architecture connects places and people through the activity of building, it is about life and environment, about memory and heritage. We want to respond with sincere design, to build in a smart way, and to observe from the sidelines. To create things from the environment is the origin of our name.

We are good at observing and listening, and all our designs begin with a rational and meticulous interpretation of place; we are busy exploring, constantly looking beyond established boundaries to find ideas and realise possibilities; we are good at organising, discovering potential connections and site logic from the complexities of the current situation, and assessing the impact of scale on the environment; we take the pursuit of detail as our mission, studying the feeling of space through opening and closing, yin and yang and proportion, and analysing the changes in people's behaviour. We are architects in site, working on materials and finding the most appropriate local construction methods to create spaces that are comfortable and allow stories to happen.