Studio Link-Arc

Studio Link-Arc is an architecture practice based in New York City, founded in 2012 by Yichen Lu, who studied at Tsinghua University in Beijing and took his Master of Architecture at Yale. The name states the method: linking disciplines and knowledge to work across urban planning, architecture, spatial art and landscape, with the relationship between a building and its context treated as an opportunity to make a new one.

The office came to prominence with the China Pavilion for Expo Milano 2015, a bamboo and timber roof conceived as a field of spaces rather than an object. Recent work includes the Cuizhu Foreign Language School in Shenzhen’s Luohu district, 44,030 square metres on a narrow site hemmed in by residential towers and hospitals, where the campus is stacked and folded to give a dense district the land it no longer has.