Gong Dong
*1972 – Beijing, China
Vector Architects
Rm 407, Bldg 22, 4 North Gongrentiyuchang Rd, Chaoyang District, 100027 Beijing+8610-65167798
+8610-65167706
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Biography
Gong Dong is a Chinese architect from an intellectual family in Beijing. His father taught hydraulic engineering at Tsinghua University, and his mother taught chemistry at Jiaotong University.
Gong Dong obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Tsinghua University in Beijing and later earned a master's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he spent two years. As a visiting student, he also stayed at the Technical University of Munich. Before founding his own practice, he gathered experience at the Chicago firm Soloman Cordwell Buenz & Associates and then at the New York offices of Richard Meier & Partners and Steven Holl Architects.
After returning to China, he founded Vector Architects in Beijing in 2008. In 2019, he was elected a foreign member of the French Academy of Architecture. He has taught at Tsinghua University and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He was also a visiting professor at UIUC in Illinois and at the Polytechnic University in Turin, Italy.
Gong Dong is a Chinese architect from an intellectual family in Beijing. His father taught hydraulic engineering at Tsinghua University, and his mother taught chemistry at Jiaotong University.
Gong Dong obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture from Tsinghua University in Beijing and later earned a master's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he spent two years. As a visiting student, he also stayed at the Technical University of Munich. Before founding his own practice, he gathered experience at the Chicago firm Soloman Cordwell Buenz & Associates and then at the New York offices of Richard Meier & Partners and Steven Holl Architects.
After returning to China, he founded Vector Architects in Beijing in 2008. In 2019, he was elected a foreign member of the French Academy of Architecture. He has taught at Tsinghua University and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He was also a visiting professor at UIUC in Illinois and at the Polytechnic University in Turin, Italy.
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