Linyun Jiang

About · Linyun Jiang

Eight years of architectural training, from Kunming University of Science and Technology to the Bartlett at UCL, and site visits to landmarks in more than twenty countries. I try to hold rational design principles and experimental ones in balance, with parametric and non-linear design as common ground.

In my design and practice, I seek a continuity between people's feelings and the built environment that grows out of them. I believe architectural design is less about invention than about uncovering potential and transforming reality.

Two years at MAD Architects in Beijing taught me to carry large projects across teams, among them Yiwu Grand Theater and Shenzhen Bay Cultural Center. My work since has turned to AI: at the Bartlett I built Khora, a design assistant trained on a studio's own stock of timber, and Palimpsest, the project it belongs to, received the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture Computational Prize 2025-26, The Strongest Computational Program In MArch AD.

Portrait of Linyun Jiang
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    Architecture

    From December 2022 to November 2024 I worked at MAD Architects in Beijing, as a junior architect and as a member of the AI team. On these four projects that meant design model refinement for the Yiwu Grand Theater and the Shenzhen Bay Cultural Center, clash checks between design and construction models, curtain-wall paneling in Grasshopper, and the design of the central bridge of the Shenzhen Bay Cultural Center.

    • MAD Architects, Beijing
    • Dec 2022 - Nov 2024
    • Four projects

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    AI/LLM

    At the Bartlett I built Khora: a multi-agent assistant that couples several retrieval bases, language-model roles and a 3D voxel clash check, so that it designs only with timber that exists. Palimpsest, the project around it, won the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture Computational Prize 2025-26, The Strongest Computational Program In MArch AD. Before that, I took part in two Digital Futures workshops at Tongji: Dance With AI (2020) and Watchdog (2021).

    • The Bartlett, UCL
    • Computational Prize 2025-26
    • Khora

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    Education

    Studio work at Kunming University of Science and Technology between 2018 and 2023: a kindergarten wrapped in a running track, a memorial exhibition hall on a cliff edge, a memorial place on a former colony, a supertall tower. Rotate In won a Bronze Prize at the Developing Countries Architectural Design Competition in 2020, and Explorin a Bronze Prize at the Asian Architecture Annual Awards in 2022. Explorin was shown in Venice in 2025, and In Silence in New York in 2026.

    • Kunming University of Science and Technology
    • 2018 - 2023
    • Thirteen works
    Linyun Jiang in front of a snow-capped mountain
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    Research

    Surveys with drones, handheld scanners and photogrammetry at heritage sites in Gansu, Chongqing and Yunnan (the Majishan Grottoes, the Diaoyu City wall, Hejiayan Village) and, in 2022, an interactive immersive exhibition hall made in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab.

    • Fudan, MIT Media Lab
    • 2021 - 2023
    • Second Prize, Xinzhengdong Cup

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    Photography

    Part of my photographic record from architecture trips.

    • Over twenty countries
    • Fourteen series
    Linyun Jiang looking up at a glazed facade from a curved stair
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    Exhibition

    Explorin in Venice in 2025, In Silence in New York in 2026 and Palimpsest in London in 2026.

    • Venice, New York, London
    • 2025 - 2026
    • Three shows

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Prizes

  • 2026Computational Prize 2025-26, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL · Palimpsest
  • 2022Bronze Prize, Asian Architecture Annual Awards · Explorin
  • 2022A-Level Work, School of Architecture Evaluation Festival, Kunming University of Science and Technology · Explorin
  • 2021Second Prize, National College Student Historical Architecture Research Competition · Living in Another Place
  • 2020Bronze Prize, Developing Countries Architectural Design Competition · Rotate In
  • 2018Third Prize, Yunnan Province Construction Festival · Reversed Ploughshare

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