Jing Liu, Founding Principal of award winning New York firm SO-IL http://so-il.org joins the CAED as a visiting professor for the Fall of 2017. SO-IL has received awards for both architecture and design including an AIA San Francisco Merit Award, the Progressive Architecture Award, The Architecture League Emerging Voices Award, and the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program award. Their work is included in the permanent collections of institutions like MoMA and the Chicago Art Institute. A recent book on their work entitled Solid Objectives: Order, Edge, Aura is published by Lars Müller Publishers.
Professor Liu’s focus includes an emphasis on building cultural projects as an indispensable part of urban infrastructure. A native of China, Liu received her education in China, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, concluding with a Master of Architecture from the Tulane School of Architecture in New Orleans.