Alex Ching-Chen Liu (he/him) is a Taiwanese architect currently pursuing the Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University GSAPP. His work explores architecture as a continuum bridging past, present, and future, with a focus on adaptive reuse, urban regeneration and climate consciousness. Before joining GSAPP, he was a senior architectural designer at JJP Architects + Planners, one of Taiwan’s leading firms, where he contributed to a wide range of projects, including industrial adaptive reuse, office complexes, and sustainable laboratory designs. Beyond architecture, he is also an passionate photographer, using the lens as another medium to explore space, memory, and everyday life.
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
Columbia University GSAPP (New York)
Teaching Assistant for Architectural Drawing and Representation, 2025-
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
License
Registered Architect of Taiwan, 2024-
Contact
Email
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cl4735@columbia.edu
LinkedIn
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Ching Chen Liu
Instagram
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© Alex CC Liu 2025
Dis/appearances:
Land–Water Aberrations in Chiayi County
Year
2025
Project Type
Academic Design Studio Work (Columbia GSAPP)
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