Aoyama Shuhei

Shuhei Aoyama is a Japanese architect born in Hiroshima in 1980 and based in Beijing, where he is founding partner and principal architect of B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio. He graduated from Osaka University in 2003, took his master’s degree at the University of Tokyo, and worked in China for SAKO Architects between 2005 and 2012, designing the Tanggu Yuanyang International Primary School.

He set up B.L.U.E., short for Beijing Laboratory for Urban Environment, with Yoko Fujii in 2014, and has lectured at the North China University of Technology since 2012. The studio works across architecture, interiors, product and art, with projects including the Nan Luo Gu Xiang courtyard renovation, awarded a silver by the Architectural Society of China in 2016, the L-shaped house in Dengshikou Hutong and the 400 boxes shared community in Suzhou.