Liu Xiaodu is partner of the Founding Team of URBANUS, Principal Architect of Liu Xiaodu Studio, and Director of Shenzhen Pingshan Art Museum.

Starting from the field of architecture, Liu Xiaodu focuses on the significance of architecture in urban culture and life, as well as the various possibilities of design. He has thus continuously expanded across disciplines in the directions of pan-design and contemporary art. The representative works presided over and designed by Liu Xiaodu attach great importance to the harmonious coexistence between architecture and the urban environment as well as their cultural values. He has made achievements in architectural design, academic research, creative planning, art curation, and institutional operation.
Liu Xiaodu once served as the first President of the Promotion Association for Shenzhen as the City of Design. He has served as an academic committee member of the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) in Shenzhen and Hong Kong and participated in the exhibition for several sessions. Under the leadership of Liu Xiaodu, the Pingshan Art Museum has grown into one of the best contemporary art institutions in China within six years.

Meng Yan is the Co-founder and Principal Architect of URBANUS. For over 20 years, he has led URBANUS’s design and research team, using Shenzhen as a model for China’s future cities and focusing on architecture grounded in emerging urban issues. His award-winning designs have shaped a series of urban cultural and lifestyle landmarks in Shenzhen, with works included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and M+ in Hong Kong. MENG was chief curator of the 2017 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Urbanism\Architecture Bi-City Biennale, and has served as a visiting professor at Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School, Syracuse University in New York, and the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Architecture. His recently completed projects include the China Merchants Group History Museum, Yuehai Culture and Sports Center, New Hakka Academy – Longgang Twin Stars School, SHUM YIP UpperHills LOFT, Nantou Old Town Preservation and Regeneration, Kingway Brewery Renovation, and the OCT Contemporary Art Terminal–B10, among others.