SANG He(Shine) grew up in Beijing and is currently residing in New York City. She received Master of Science in Advance Architecture Design(M.S.AAD) degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) , and Bachelor of Archictecture degree from Tianjin University, China.
SANG has publications in both academic design and research. She is also interested in theory, technology, and design management besides architectural design. She believes that architecture is the equilibrium between design philosophy, spatial strategy and final completion, and that architects are perfectionist who pursue the extreme quality of space, while integrating all resources to confront limitation.
SANG first worked for Yungho Chang(former dean of MIT School of Architecture and Planning, jury of the Pritzker Architecture Prize) at Atelier FCJZ in Beijing as intern architect, during which she has participated in Shenzhen CCTV Media Building project, Jiading Culture Park project, Yunnan Deqin LVMH Winery project, Hangzhou Western Academy project and FCJZ' s 20 years retrospective exhibition – Materialism. These experiences formed SANG’s initial vision about architecture and design.
After graduated from Columbia University, SANG has worked for the NAO(Normal Architecture Office, NYC), Leeser Architecture(NYC), Aecom(Beijing) as junior architect and become more aware of the constraint in the current social environment that architecture profession is facing as well as working methodology within the discipline. Therefore she choose to extend practice into extra-small scale architecture - fashion design to address issues encountered in spatial imagination and realization, such as systematic and ideological crisis, in order to raise awareness for a change to better utilize each individual design labor for a more active opportunity seeking way of spatial and architectural expression.
SANG also wants to address the importance of innovative material and structural research in architecture process that have been overlooked in the digital age, which is in fact impeding the emergence of more diversified architectural style, the booming of broader conversation between architecture and society, and disciplinary understanding from the mass public.