Chi wing lo biography
- Lo had taught at the Syracuse University, NY, and had been a member of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
- The Hong Kong-born, Europe-based multidisciplinary designer behind the newly reopened Regent Hong Kong reflects on his creative path and design philosophy.
- Born 1954 in Hong Kong.
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Chi Wing Lo
Born 1954 in Hong Kong. Designer und architect, lecturer.
Grants: James E. Priestley Scholarship 1983; Toronto Brick Company Scholarship 1984; Ontario Industrial Roofing Contractors Association Scholarship 1985; Frederic Coates Scholarship 1985; American Institute of Architects Scholarship 1985.
Awards: 1st Prize of Button Design Competition, University of Toronto 1985; Toronto Architectural Guild Medal 1986; Award for Best Work of Harvard University 1988; Progressive Architecture Award 1988; Silver Award at International Public Design Competition, Nagoya 1988; James Templeton Kelley Prize 1988; BL International Industrial Design Competition Award 1997.
Exhibitions include: Centre for Better Living, Osaka 1987; International Public Design, Nagoya 1988; “Design U.S.A.”, traveling exhibition, USSR 1989; National Gallery, Athens 1991; Royal College of Art, London 1991; Biennial, Venice 1991; Akademie Schloss Solitude 1992.
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Getting to Know Chi Wing Lo
When Chi Wing Lo looks back on the path that led him to become the eminent multidisciplinary designer he is today, he categorically refrains from using the word ‘career’. Rather, he refers to his life’s work as an organic flow of projects and ‘things he’s passionate about’. At 68 years old, he still considers everything a learning experience.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Lo now splits his time between Greece, Italy and Hong Kong. He spent his formative years abroad, first in the United States where he studied architecture at Harvard, and then in Italy, where he worked for design brand Giorgetti — serving as art director from 2004 to 2006 — before establishing his own furniture label, Dimensione Chi Wing Lo and more recently, accessories range 1ness. Interestingly, Lo avoids associating his work with any particular Asian sensibilities and, more generally, prefers to stay away from labels.
This freedom has come to define not only Lo’s multifaceted output — encompassing architecture, art, interior, furniture and product design — but also the way he app
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Chi Wing Lo
Cabiate, Italy
Born in Hong Kong in 1954, Chi Wing Lo studied architecture at the University of Toronto and Harvard University. Subsequently, he taught at Syracuse University N.Y. and later was a member at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart in 1991. Presently, he has a practice with Panagiota Davladi based in Athens. Many of their architectural and design works have been awarded, exhibited, and published internationally. From the imaginary objects in To Kardizu 1992 to objects of Iro and furnitures designed for Giorgetti S.p.A. in Milan since 1994, Chi Wing Lo gathers much of his inspiration for the resistance to time. Striving for a synthesis of past and present, familiar and enigmatic, real and imaginary, he sees this ambivalent exactitude could help a work to cut through the drifting currents of time. This optimism permeates all works he and Davladi have proposed for Athens: the New Acropolis Museum 1990, the Library of Athens 1994, the Five Fountain Pillars for Piraios 1997, the Unification of Syntagma Square 1998; and most recently, an ossuary in ru
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