Liu Jiakun was born in 1956 and established Jiakun architects in 1999. His projects were shown in enormous exhibitions such as Chinese Contemporary Architecture in the Pompidou Center, Paris (2003), Chinese Young Architects’ work Exhibition in Berlin (2001) and the Chinese Contemporary Architecture Exhibition in the Netherlands Architecture Institute, the Venice Biennale of Architecture, among others. He has also won the ARCASIA Award for Architecture, the 2003 Chinese Architecture Art Prize, etc. His works were presented in a+u, AV, area, MADE IN CHINA, AR and other publications. He was invited to lecture at MIT, the Royal College of Art in London and many Chinese universities.