Gong Dong (b. 1972) received a BA and MA in Architecture from Tsinghua University, followed by an MA in Architecture from the University of Illinois. He worked for Solomon Cordwell Buenz & Associates in Chicago, then Richard Meier & Partners and Steven Holl Architects in New York.

Dong Gong founded Vector Architects in 2008. He was elected Foreign Member of the French Academy of Architecture in 2019. He has taught design studies at Tsinghua University and the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He was also appointed Plym Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Visiting Professor at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy.

Dong Gong and Vector Architects have been invited to several major exhibitions, including the first Chinese architecture exhibition at MoMA in New York; the 2018 Venice Biennale “FreeSpace”, and have won international awards such as “The Arcasia Architecture Prize Gold Award”(2022); “Riba International Awards for Excellence”(2021); “100+ Best Architecture Firms” selected by Domus (2019); nominated for the Swiss Architectural Award (2018); the overall winner of the Italian “Archmarathon Awards” (2016); and the “Design Vanguard” selected by Architectural Record (2014).

In 2019, the architecture magazine AV Monographs published a monograph by Vector Architects entitled “Cosmopolitan Vernacular” (vol.220). His projects have also been widely published in Casabella, Arquitectura Viva, The New York Times, A+U, Detail, The Architectural Review, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Lotus, Domus and many others.

Dong Gong has been invited as a lecturer and critic by academic and professional institutions such as Tsinghua University (China), the University of Hong Kong (China), the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich-ETH (Switzerland), the Société Française des Architectes (France), the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy) and Casabella Formazione (Italy).

Dong Gong’s studio has gained international recognition for its representative works, such as Seashore Library, Seashore Chapel, Yangshuo Sugarhouse, Renovation of the Captain’s House, Pingshan Art Museum, Haibing Center at Nankai University, Jingyang Camphor Court, and People’s Elementary School.