Zhang Ke (architect) explained

Zhang Ke 张轲
Nationality:	Chinese
Birth Date:	1970
Significant Buildings:	Novartis Campus Building, Shanghai
Significant Projects:	Transformation of hutongs in Beijing
Awards:	2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2017 Alvar Aalto Medal

Zhang Ke (; born 1970) is a Chinese architect. Zhang Ke is a graduate of Tsinghua University in Beijing and the Harvard Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. In 2001, he founded his studio (标准营造).

Zhang Ke is a recipient of the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture and the 2017 Alvar Aalto Medal. In 2016, he represented China at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.^[1]

Selected works

• Micro Yuan'er Children's Library and Art Centre, 2012-14
• Novartis Campus Building, 2016, in Shanghai in China
• Transformation of Beijings old hutongs
• Museum for China Academy of Art (CAA) in Hangzhou.
• Longji Primary School in Guangxi, a donation from Zhang Ke's firm to an underdeveloped rural community, which will be crowd-funded.

References

1. Web site: "Reporting from the Front" in China: A Talk with Zhang Ke of ZAO/Standardarchitecture. 9 May 2016.

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External links

• ZAO/standardarchitecture