Education
Jing Liu received her education in China, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, concluding with a Master of Architecture from Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans.
Jing Liu received her education in China, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, concluding with a Master of Architecture from Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans.
In 2008 Liu founded SO – Illinois with Dutch architect Florian Idenburg. They went on to design the award-winning Kukje Gallery in Seoul. The design of Kukje Gallery marks an important moment in the architecture today in which "one finds a multidimensional architecture in step with the ambiguous spatiality of the digital era," wrote the British architectural critic Sam Jacob in Domus.
In 2012 and 2013, SO – Illinois was commissioned to design the inaugural presence for the Frieze Art Fair in New York City.
Working with a prefabricated rental tent structure forced them to be inventive with a limited vocabulary. Pie-shaped tent section wedges bend the otherwise straight tent into a meandering, supple, shape.
The winding form animates it on the unusual waterfront site, as well as establishing the temporary structure as an icon along the water. Liu has taught at Columbia University’s GSAPP, Syracuse University, School of Architecture, and at Parsons The New School for Design.
