▧ Grace Cheung, Co-founder & Principal Architect at XRANGE Architects
張淑征, 十一建築事務所共同創辦人 / 洪建全文教基金會執行長

Grace Cheung is the Founder and Principal Architect of XRANGE. She holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University and is a licensed architect in the United States, currently living and practicing in Taipei. Prior to XRANGE, Cheung gained extensive experience in globally renowned firms, including Patkau Architects in Vancouver, Bernard Tschumi Architects in New York, and OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) Asia in Hong Kong and Rotterdam.

Born in Malaysia before moving to Canada in her teens, Cheung has lived, studied, and worked across America, Europe, and Asia. Seeing herself as a front-line worker in the shifting cultural contexts that shaped her and characterized her practice, Cheung brings her cultural fluency and international background to steer XRANGE towards a specifically localized yet global critical point of view with the methods and materials of architecture.

A TEDxTaipei speaker, Cheung has taught at multiple universities and is a frequent lecturer, guest critic and juror both in her adopted home Taiwan and abroad. Cheung is also the Vice Chairman and Executive Director of the Hong Foundation, extending its five decade philanthropic legacy synonymous with the social and cultural heritage of Taiwan into the next wave.

張淑征 (Grace Cheung) 為 XRANGE / 十一事務所創辦人及主持建築師、美國哥倫比亞大學建築碩士及美國註冊建築師。她於成立十一事務所之前曾任職於全球知名事務所，包括加拿大溫哥華 Patkaus 建築師事務所，紐約 Bernard Tschumi 建築師事務所，以及OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) Asia 於香港及荷蘭鹿特丹的辦公處。

出生於馬來西亞，十七歲時移民加拿大。張淑征因生活、學業與工作，曾旅居過美洲、歐洲及亞洲。移動於不同的文化環境，不僅形塑了她的個人風格，也成為她創作靈感的源泉及作品的獨特印記。張淑征視自己為站在第一線的建築工作者，以自身的文化流暢性與國際化背景，透過建築的元素與語彙，引領 XRANGE 十一事務所突破在地與國際的分野，帶來更具批判性的觀點。

張淑征曾是 TEDxTaipei 的講者，也曾於多所大學任教，無論在國際上或是她的第二故鄉台灣，皆常受邀演講及擔任評審。2022年起張淑征亦擔任洪建全基金會副董事長暨執行長，期望將基金會五十年來公益傳家的精神及它形塑台灣社會文化資產的歷史，拓展到下一個未來的世代。

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