ABOUT
Cheng-Hsin Chan is a Taiwanese architect and design researcher based in London, known for blending environmental sensitivity, spatial poetry, and cultural resilience. His work deeply engages with the intersections of climate, skin, and the built environment, exploring how these elements impact human living conditions. Through innovative methodologies that weave together domesticity, adaptation, and memory, Cheng creates designs that profoundly resonate with human experience and ecological balance.
Driven by a multidisciplinary ethos, Cheng's expertise spans intimate installations to expansive urban systems, consistently highlighting interactions between inhabitants and their surroundings. His creative explorations focus on spaces that adapt, reflect, and respond to cultural narratives and climate realities, articulating the subtle textures of everyday life.
Cheng's rigorous practice integrates sophisticated environmental analytics with evocative visual storytelling. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and featured at institutions such as the MIT Center for Art, Lithuania National Gallery of Art, and Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Balancing poetic nuance with data-driven clarity, Cheng's designs deliver insightful, sensitive, and resilient solutions to contemporary spatial challenges.
Cheng holds an SMArchS in Architecture and Urbanism (with MIT graduate Fellowship) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Business Analytics Certificate from MIT Sloan School of Management, and a BArch, awarded first prize for thesis design, from Tunghai University (THU).
RESUME
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science in Architecture Studies (MIT SMArchS Urbanism)
MIT Sloan Business Analytics Certificate
MIT Graduate Fellowship 9/2022 – 5/2024. Cambridge, MA
Harvard University
Cross Registration at Harvard Kennedy School, T.H. Chan School of Public Health Area of Focus: Big Data, AI, and Urban Policies; Gender and Health
1/2023 – 6/2024. Cambridge, MA
Tunghai University
Bachelor of Architecture
Graduation Thesis First Prize
9/2013 – 6/2018. Taichung, Taiwan
Registered Architect
Issued by Ministry of the Interior (Taiwan)
Qualified Interior Construction Technical Personnel
Issued by Ministry of Interior
AtkinsRéalis
Senior Environmental Design Researcher
10/2024 –
National Gallery of Art
Assistant project coordinator (MIT MISTI Fellowship)
6/2024 – 9/2024
MIT Office of Sustainability
Climate Resiliency and Adaptation Planning Researcher
6/2023 – 1/2024
WellSpace
Design Lead
3/2023 –
MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI)
HK Impact Ambassador
7/2023 – 8/2023HK Impact Ambassador
MIT Architecture
Mentor
The Applicant Mentorship Program
11/2022 – 12/2023
Predesign ArchLab
Project Manager
4/2021 – 1/2023
Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
Contract Architect
7/2022 – 8/2022
Behet Bondzio Lin Architekten
Architectural Designer, Project Manager
9/2018 – 3/2021
Dept of Architecture Shih Chien University
Teaching Assistant
3/2020 – 1/2021
HONORS & AWARDS
MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program
Issued by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2/2024
CAMIT Seed Grant
Issued by the Council for the Arts at MIT
1/2024
MISTI China/ HK Fellowship
Issued by MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives
7/2023
Government Scholarship to Study Abroad
Issued by Ministry of Education, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
6/2022
First Place, Hukou Kindergarten Design Competition
Issued by Hsinchu City Government
9/2020
First Place, Taipei Public Library Kang-Ning Branch Design Competition
Issued by Taipei City Government
6/2020
2018 International Exhibition of Architecture Graduation Design (IEAGD)Issued by Chinese Institute of Urban Design Taiwan/ Cultural Affairs Bureau of Yilan County
8/2018
Honorable Mention, Social Housing in TaipeiIssued by Taipei Architects Association
6/2017
Top 10 Finalist, Project X-siteIssued by Taipei Fine Arts Museum
5/2016