Atelier Archmixing was founded by ZHUANG Shen and REN Hao in July, 2009, Joined partner are TANG Yu and ZHU Jie.

The studio’s Chinese name A Ke Mi Xing echoes the pronunciation of "Archmixing ", which means Mixing Architecture, a critical position as well as strategy we hold from the very beginning. We think it necessary to move beyond our narrow area of expertise to a wider range of unlimited boundary by seeking every opportunity and employing strategies with no priori notions. The projects we have completed feature in various scales and functions, covering the range from urban design to artistic installation, from professional manufacture to informal locale craftsmanship. We boast in extensive design interests as well as flexible practicing strategies.

Through two decades of practices, Atelier Archmixing’s principal architects have accumulated plenty of practicing and researching experiences. We see China’s rapid urbanization and extensive commercialization as our design context, China’s controversial urban and rural status quo, which is also the everyday environment we live in and impossible to ignore, as our point of departure. Is it possible to draw new strength for architectural discipline from these circumstances? We especially see opportunities in city life and architecture of the everyday, which is problematic but also energetic and vibrant. In such practical research, we focus more on the using end of architecture and discover one blind spot in the mainstream Architecture, Change. The following two concerns, "what changes the existing cities and buildings?" and "what will change the architecture of the future?” will effectively guide our design research and work.