Jing Liu (architect) facts for kids
Jing Liu is a talented architect and a teacher. She was born in 1980. She helped start a famous design company called Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu, or SO-IL, in New York City.
About Jing Liu
Jing Liu was born in Nanjing, China. When she was a teenager, she moved around a lot. She studied in China, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. From 1999 to 2004, she studied architecture at Tulane University in New Orleans. She then moved to New York in 2004.
In 2008, Jing Liu started SO – IL with another architect, Florian Idenburg. They quickly became known for their unique designs.
Cool Projects by SO-IL
In 2010, their company won a big award. They designed an amazing, playful structure for the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program. It was very experimental and people could interact with it.
After that, they designed the award-winning Kukje Gallery in Seoul, South Korea. This building was special because it showed a new way of thinking about architecture. It was like a modern building that fit well with our digital world.
In 2012 and 2013, SO – IL designed the first-ever Frieze Art Fair in New York City. They had to be very creative because they used simple rental tents. They made the straight tents bend into a cool, winding shape. This made the temporary building look exciting by the water. It also became a recognizable symbol along the waterfront.
In 2013, SO – IL won a competition to design a new art museum. This was for the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis.
Teaching and Curating
Jing Liu has been a teacher at Columbia University’s GSAPP since 2009. She has also taught at Syracuse University and Parsons The New School for Design.
In 2015, Liu and Florian Idenburg helped organize an art show. It was called "Landscapes of the Hyperreal" at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Awards and Recognition
Jing Liu has received several important awards for her work. In 2017, she was a finalist for the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture. In 2018, she won the Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in architecture.
