Philosophy
Li Hua

Space
Space is a memory, discovery and inspiration. It is definitely not just a rational term defining functions. Space is perhaps most powerful aspect in architecture which can challenge our unconsciousness to our existence condition. Inspiring space can ask us questions: where you are? How you want to exist? So to create spaces which can provoke our curiosity and doubts is the most profound mission for architecture.

Tectonics
The construction is the essential means of realizing architecture. Thus, architecture is not just abstract but physical and material. The tectonics should obey an order following laws of nature, instead of arbitrariness relying on technologies. In this, there are three things important: 1. Authenticity----a quality which resists the dislocation of meaning. It reveals the essence of things; 2. Clarity----a desire of expression of true logic in structural and material although it may not be completely achieved visually; 3. Here and now---a respect to "gravity" of our existence in sense of place and time. Architecture belongs to specific site and context in both environmental and cultural sense, we should work with limits and discover the solution with a creative mind.

Feeling/Thinking
Beauty is not dead. Also "beauty can not be created overnight" (kahn). Beauty is always there, waiting to be discovered by man, only the way of seeing beauty is transforming constantly. This is a belief in feelings, rather than thoughts. If thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier, simpler (Nietzsche), then we should really be suspicious to the abusing power of any concepts in name of intellect. Beauty thus exists in silence.

Time
Doing architecture, we are anticipating the future, but with our memory. Architecture is a dramatic meeting between past and future, while has to be realized by present means. Thus Architecture belongs to a time, but it can also go beyond its time. Architecture without style, without appearance, without metaphor, will last and present itself in spirit.

Taiwan Strait Forum Hotel and Convention Center Complex, Xiamen, 2009

International Idea Competition Of Carlsberg's Regeneration, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007

The 2nd BusinessWeek/Architectural Record “Good Design is Good Business” China Awards, 2008, Best residential project, Dutch Ambassador’s Residence in Beijing, W/ Dirk Jan Postel/Kraaijvanger • Urbis and Royal Haskoning


XiaoQuan Elementary School, Sichuan, 2008

Museum of Handcraft Paper, Gaoligong Mountain, Yunnan, 2008-

Brick Showroom Project, Beijing, 2008-

ChangMeng Care Centre Dining Hall, 2007-2008

Northeast Normal University Sports Centre, 2004-2009

Riverside Clubhouse----Folded Farnsworth

Kindergarten, Sichuan

Tiancheng Experience Center

2009/8 A+U HuaLi/Architect's Office-- Refurbishment of a Warehouse

2009/3 AREA Perception of Hua Li's "Universal Architecture"

2008/6 T+A magazine "Changmeng Care Center Dining Hall" by HuaLi

2008 Architects -- Made In China

2007/7 World Architecture, An Interview with Huali
domus and 78 Chinese Architects / Designers, 2006

2006 The 2nd International Architecture Biennale Beijing publication

2006/11 Bestbuilt, Meaning Something else

2005/6 T+A magazine, Non-place, liquid, boundary, skin---Works of HuaLi

2003/4 World Architecture, An Interview with Raimund Abraham

Architecture Odyssey, Lecture at CAFA School of Architecture, Beijing, 2009/11

Un_Natural Exhibition, Beijing, 2009/04

Forum of Biennale by AREA China, Beijing, 2008/10

Post Residential Culture, Domus creative talk series, Beijing, 2008/07

The Forum on rebuilding after the earthquake in Sichuan, Chengdu, 2008/06

The 2nd Architecture Biennale Beijing, "The works of the International Young Architects and Students", 2006/10