Alex Ching-Chen Liu (he/him) is a licensed architect in Taiwan and holds a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University GSAPP.
His work approaches architecture as an act of integration, engaging history, culture, and the existing fabric of cities. Across academic research and professional practice, he explores how existing infrastructure and urban conditions can be reimagined to enable new ways of living, with a particular interest in adaptive reuse.
Working across drawing, photography, publication, exhibition, and installation, Alex brings a multidisciplinary approach to communicating design ideas and continues to challenge conventional modes of architectural representation. He also teaches at Columbia University, where he remains actively engaged in architectural education.
His work has recently been exhibited at AIA Los Angeles and longlisted for the ArchDaily Student Project Awards.
Education
Columbia University GSAPP (New York)
Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design, 2025-2026
National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan)
Bachelor of Architecture, 2016-2021
Experience
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners (New York)
Architectural Designer, 2026-
Columbia University GSAPP (New York)
Teaching Associate II, 2026
Teaching Assistant for Architectural Drawing and Representation I & II, 2025-2026
Student Photographer, 2025-2026
JJP Architects + Planners
(Taipei, Taiwan)
Senior Architecture Designer, 2022-2025
Zhaoyang Architects (Dali, China)
Architecture Design Intern, 2019-2020
AMBi Studio (Taichung, Taiwan)
Architecture Design Intern, 2018
Exhibition
WILDLANDS: Stories From the Wildland Urban Interface, AIA Los Angeles, 2026
Exhibition Design Lead
Climates ↔ Models ↔ Images, Prime Produce, 2025
Participating Artist
NCKU Thesis Summer Exhibition, Online Exhibition, 2021
Exhibition Installation Team
Publication
Among Things, B-SIDE(Columbia GSAPP), 2025
Production Editor
Ephemeral Conditions, B-SIDE(Columbia GSAPP), 2026
Production Editor
The Ideas of Ordinary Objects, Studio Tngtetshiu, 2020
Research Contributor
License
Registered Architect of Taiwan, 2024-
Contact
Email
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alexchingchenliu@gmail.com
LinkedIn
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Ching-Chen Liu
Instagram
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© Alex CC Liu 2026
Dis/appearances:
Land–Water Aberrations in Chiayi County
Year
2025
Project Type
Academic Design Studio Work (Columbia GSAPP)/Exhibition Installation
Instructor
Elise Hunchuck + Marco Ferrari
Collaborator
Juke Francis Jose
How do we represent those overlapping, slow-moving climate crises in a way that is both analytical and intimate?
Our project begins with Shun-Fa Yang’s photograph of a sinking village, a quiet image that masks the intertwined crises of land subsidence, sea-level rise, and extractive agriculture along Taiwan’s western coast. Through maps, models, and drawings, we traced these hidden forces and speculated on adaptive futures, while underscoring the fragility of such resilience. Presented as an installation, the work sought to cultivate a sense of “climate intimacy,” translating data into lived experience and inviting empathy for landscapes and lives on the edge of disappearance.
Expanded Image:
Vestiges of Submergence + Before-After Images
Expanded Map: Temporalities of Water in Unstable Ground
Expanded Section: Speculative Recalibration
Expanded Drawings: Everyday Adaption
Expanded Model: Before–After Perspectives
© Alex CC Liu 2025