The International Union of Architects was founded in Lausanne, Switzerland on June 28th 1948 to unite the architects of the world without regard to nationality, race, religion, or architectural doctrine, and to federate their national organizations. From the 27 delegations present at the founding assembly, the UIA has grown to encompass the key professional organizations and architects in 130 countries and territories, and now represents, through these organizations, more than 1,300,000 architects worldwide. Over time, UIA has become an accomplished non-governmental organization and an incomparable professional network of architects that reaches all continents. Official Site: http://www.uia-architectes.org/

The School of Architecture, Tianjin University is established in 1895 with the name of “Peiyang University”, is the first educational institution of higher learning in China. Aspired to be a world-class progressive and multidisciplinary research university, School of Architecture constantly focuses on the improvement of education quality. Putting great efforts on education reformation, it established a unique educational system and achieved many fruitful outcomes. It also constantly focuses on keeping the professional education opening and international by establish and maintain regular stable contact with many well-reputational universities and research institutes. The School has trained thousands of bachelors and hundreds of masters and doctors working in different departments in Central government and architecture design institutes, planning bureaus, research Institutes, universities and private developers in local municipalities of other provinces. As the core members of these institutions they are making great contributions to the architecture development in China. Official Site: http://www.tju.edu.cn/english/

The School of Architecture, Inner Mongolia University of Technology is one of the earliest higher education institutions in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to initiate architectural education. Based on the regional characteristics of grasslands, many breakthroughs have been made in teaching, scientific research, and reform. With the professional education received, students from the School of Architecture have been actively participating in various domestic and international design competitions and have made excellent achievements. The University has trained a large number of energetic and innovative outstanding graduates, providing talents for various industries in western China and even in the whole country.

The undergraduate education history of SAU can be traced back to 1959 when the two disciplines—architecture and urban planning—were introduced by Professor Wu Zi’ang and Professor Fang Yuncheng.In 2000 and 2004, the majors of undergraduate education of architecture and urban planning respectively passed the national professional education evaluation. In 2012, they passed the national professional education evaluation of master degree education. In 2016,the discipline of Architecture was listed as First-Rating Discipline of Shandong Province. The discipline of Urban Planning was accredited as High-level Practical Professional Project of Shandong Province.

Urban Environment Design (UED) magazine was founded in 2004 by the School of Architecture, Tianjin University, and Liaoning Science & Technology Press. As a representative of the fourth generation architectural media, UED aims to report the current development of Chinese urban and rural areas and to introduce international best practices of urban renewal, new city development, and rural construction. In the development of Chinese urban and rural areas, UED presents a holistic outlook by covering a broad range of issues, such as urban operation, community construction, ecology and energy conservation. The Design for City event series, sponsored by UED, has immensely reshaped the development of a number of cities and regions in China with its conferences, exhibitions, competitions, publications, and group designs. UED magazine is now the largest architecture magazine in China, a comprehensive media platform for magazine publication, event management, and new media.

HYP-ARCH DESIGN was established in 2008.It is a Shanghai-based architectural design firm with a Grade A design qualification certificate and has been recognized as a high-tech enterprise by Shanghai Municipal Committee of Science and Technology, a research and development institution in Pudong New Area, and a member of Shanghai BIM Technological Innovation Alliance.
With more than 600 professional architects, HYP-ARCH provides integrated services of planning, architecture, landscape and interior design for residential communities, commercial offices, cultural and tourism towns, urban renewal and other fields.
Since its inception, HYP-ARCH has offered architectural design and consulting services to first-tier property developers, including Poly, Vanke, Greenland, China Overseas Land & Investment Ltd., Sunac, Shui On Land Limited (Hong Kong), SHIMAO, CIFI Group, China Merchants Property Development, Yango, Wanda and R&F. With a solid technical strength and a wealth of experience in the industry, HYP-ARCH keeps pursuing the latest international design philosophies, focusing on human-oriented design details and providing clients with multi-dimensional services. Many of its design works have received domestic or international awards, thus making the company gain wide popularity and good reputation.

The Non Architecture Competitions aim to explore unconventional and uncharted design solutions within architecture, urban planning, and design. From 2016 to 2019, Non Architecture organized a series of 10 competitions with the goal of redefining functional architectural typologies. In 2020, we entered a new phase structured around nine themes. Each theme approaches the significant challenges of today’s world from different angles.