He studied architecture at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the Bartlett, and maintains strong links with UCL. He was born and raised in mainland China until the age of 12, when he came to the UK for his secondary schooling. He is the founder of the ‘Madness Symposium’, a London-based organisation that advocates the creative construction of confrontational ideas in areas of intense conflict in order to generate new possibilities for architectural design, particularly in the context of debates about the clash of Chinese and Western values in the 21st century. He intends to pursue these issues in a PhD on architectural design.