Function is necessary, but it is only the beginning. Architecture begins when time, structure, space, material and movement become a spatial narrative.
Styles change. Forms change. What endures lies deeper: order, truth, beauty and the relationship between people and nature.
An architect allows architecture to speak. It should leave something that can still be understood when the fashion of its time has passed.
Architecture is first an art,
but an architect must carry that art much further.
Geometries. Composition. Tectonics. Materials.
- give it a body. Experience gives it meaning.
“Are you a design architect or a project architect?”
I still find the question strange. Practice may separate the roles; architecture cannot separate the minds.
I started in project management,
and it took me a long route to understand architecture.
Today, I am a Registered Architect (ARB(HK)) with experience across private practice and Government, working on projects in Hong Kong, Macau and the PRC — from a single unit to retails, commercials and public works.
My work has crossed design, statutory compliance, administration and project management, with a strong familiarity with Government procedures.
Along that route, design training became a way of thinking — a discipline that helps me hold onto what matters through the noise.
Design without delivery can lose reality. Delivery without design judgment can lose architecture.
Focus.
Determination.
Confidence.
If there is one other thing to know about me, it is that I am a former wakeboarding athlete and national squad member. The focus, determination and quiet confidence remain, long after competition.
My architecture is my way of seeing.
Phenomenology matters to me because architecture is not only what exists, but how it is perceived, inhabited and remembered.
My memory is different from yours so if we are both standing at the same place, we're not quite seeing the same thing.
I am still refining where I stand, but I am much closer now to knowing what I believe. And perhaps that is enough.