Hao Chen: When I was in high school, I saw an image of Maison Bordeaux by Rem Koolhaas in a magazine. The flying beam, circular door, and elevator plate refreshed my understanding of the possibilities of our physical environment.

At that moment, as a teenager, I decided to become an architect to make cool stuff like Rem.

Chenchen Hu: When I was in middle school, I loved tonal drawing, making models, FLASH animations, geography, and playing Age of Empires. Then I thought it might be interesting for me to study something visual and spatial, like architecture.

We are interested in geometry and material, and how these elements could make up something more provocative as a physical space. But we would rather not confine ourselves to a certain style.

It’s hard to name a certain architecture as a favorite. We like Herzog & de Meuron and Toyo Ito’s early work. We also like the work of many Spanish and Latin American architects.

Buckminster Fuller’s work and architecture without architects are at two opposite poles, but we love both.

To compromise with the market, or even commercially, which is almost inevitable nowadays if one works on urban projects.

We talk to each other.

Honestly no.