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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Instagram
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© Alex CC Liu 2026
Rewriting Fluidity:
From Enclosed Abstraction to Chromatic Openness
Year
2025
Project Type
Rendering Art
What if the notion of “fluidity” in space could be rewritten by renderings?
Three renderings explore how representation can function as spatial storytelling—reframing a built project not through architectural alteration, but through perception and narration.
In Toyo Ito’s original conception of White U, fluidity was imagined as an inward and abstract movement—light folding through walls and spaces looping back into themselves. This project revisits that idea through three speculative renderings that re-stage White U within new spatial and emotional conditions. What if the notion of “fluidity” in this house could be rewritten?
Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects
White U, coloured plan, 1976
Courtesy of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)
Scene 1
The first rendering imagines White U as a physical model placed among scattered objects, introducing an unexpected sense of playfulness into the otherwise restrained interior. This scene proposes an alternate childhood for the two daughters who once lived there—a parallel timeline in which the house becomes a site of joy rather than grief.
Scene 2
The second rendering envisions blue gradually seeping into the curved walls. The gradients formed by the architecture’s geometry overlap with the gradients of color, softening the perception of spatial depth and blurring the boundary between surface and light.
Scene 3
The third rendering reconstructs White U with more transparent materials. Yellow light begins to fi lter in from the outside, interweaving with the existing blue. Their interaction generates a renewed abstraction—one in which fl uidity becomes chromatic, porous, and outward-looking.
© Alex CC Liu 2026