Ziyi Dang
Designer
Architecture is beautiful because it can help people live better lives and leads to more diverse experiences. An architect’s tools are perception, empathy, and imagination, which we use to create dreams. As humans, we all share in this search for a dream. There is nothing better to me than helping people find them.
education
The University of Queensland, Bachelor of Architectural Design, Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
started at els
2022
favorite cities
Kyoto, Singapore, New York
favorite meal
Mom’s homemade fennel dumplings
favorite movies
Anything by Christopher Nolan.
influential books
The Foundation series and the Robot series by Isaac Asimov; The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu.
best vacation
Diving with whale sharks & friends in Cebu, Philippines; seeing the stunning sunset with my family in Nice, France; watching penguins jumping into water with my hubby in Antarctica; and the next one
design inspiration
Kengo Kuma, Wang Shu, Steven Holl