SKEW Collaborative is an architecture and research practice that started
in 1999 in the city of New York, and currently based in Shanghai and Hong
Kong. Facing the need to reconcile these triangulated geographies, the cultural
disparities between the cities became the raw material that feeds the studio’s
work. Through an analysis of culture and the city, SKEW seeks to create
architecture that is elegant and relevant, but more critically, architecture
that can increase awareness about our cities and natural environment. In
every project, SKEW will examine architectural artifacts produced by different
cultures in order to design architectural strategies that can bridge, critique and
translate between cultures and systems.
Through various professional, research and academic platforms, the design
principals of SKEW are committed to inventive and culturally sensitive design
practice. The design principals are currently teaching at the University of
Hong Kong in Shanghai and Hong Kong. They have also taught at Columbia,
Yale, Princeton Universities, NYU and Pratt Institute. SKEW’s work has
been featured at acclaimed design events and forums such as the 2004
Venice Biennale, 2004 Singapore Art Festival, 2004 SENI Contemporary Art
Exhibition, 2005 ERA05 Copenhagen World Design Congress, 2005 Harvard
Asia GSD Tsunami Design Conference, 2007 & 2009 Shenzhen Biennale,
2008 Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s YOUprison Exhibition, 2010
Beijing Architecture Biennale, 2011 Chengdu Biennale, and 2011 Singapore
Hub-to-Hub Public Art Exhibition.