Designers

  • Michael Grau
  • John Klein
  • Suki Li
  • Eric Cheng
  • Alex Fishman
Michael Grau is founder of superfabrication on, a research unit that advances new design and fabrication on methods. He was born in Potsdam, Germany and received his degree from Stuttgart University. His collaborations include projects with RFR and Zaha Hadid Architects where he develops tools and workflows that enable the offices to handle the complex geometries in contemporary rchitecture and design. He is strongly involved into Zaha Hadid Architects chinese projects, recently handling the complex facades for Soho China projects in Beijing and Shanghai.

With his students at Londons architectural associations makelab and at the IAAC in Barcelona he experiments with a wide range of manufacturing technologies in an ongoing search for intelligent construction methods.  Introducing new methods he and his students built several CNC machines and wrote software to design with them.  
John Klein principle founder of JKS, a design research studio based in Beijing, was born in New Jersey United States.  He is currently collaborating with Zaha Hadid Architects in Beijing & Seoul on over 6 million square feet of commercial construction. Previously he has worked as a designer for the offices of Greg Lynn Form, S.Cohen Architects, and Frank Gehry Architects on projects ranging from small scale proto-types to large urban master plans.   While at SCI-Arc he has been part of the DBRL (Design build research laboratory), Robotic Research Group, and has taught design build seminars to the graduate and undergraduate classes in collaboration with P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S and Buro Huppold. He has also been a tutor at Smart Geometry in Collaboration with RMIT and Mark Burry. John has been a lecturer and has taught design workshops in the US, UK, India and China.   While with Zaha Hadid Architects he has worked on the design and construction of commercial complexes in Chennai-India and Beijing-China. Cultural projects include the Glasgow-Scotland’s Transportation Museum, Seoul-Korea’s WDPark, and The Peoples Conference Hall in Tripoli-Libya. The projects involved large spanning concrete shell structures and architectural assemblies comprised of advanced composite material systems.
Suki Li is based in Hong Kong and received the greater part of her education in Alberta, Canada.  Born with a passion for design, in particular contemporary furniture, she abandoned business studies to pursue industrial design at the University of Alberta.  There, Suki specialized in wooden furniture design and sustainable design, and had successfully sold numerous handcrafted pieces at various design auctions in Canada, such as the Gezellig Art Auction.  Suki brings back to Hong Kong her western schooled design principles and combines it with her Asian roots to create a unique style in her pieces.   Suki is the resident designer at Ztem.
Eric Cheng pursued his interest in architectural design in SCI-Arc [Southern California Institute of Architecture]. At SCI-Arc he was involved in many creative and unique small to large scale architecture projects. The first team project he was involved with lead him into the AIA Exhibition: 2X8. Over the years in SCI-Arc, his projects has developed into sites around the world. He has traveled extensively around North America, Europe and Asia to pursue his photography interest; this has help contribute a strong cultural passion and appreciation for different aspects. Over the years he has developed his own freelance jewelry design work for an established Hong Kong and US based pearl company; as well as freelance work in different mediums of furniture and interior design. In 2011, he founded EPICollab: - a creative design collaborative; which house teams of talented designers across the globe to provide a broad range of creative services. To keep the designs and concepts innovative and exciting they have created a unique work environment where collaboration and experimentation becomes the key part of the creative process to meet every client's demands.
Alex Fishman is a designer based out of Los Angeles, California, specializing in a wide array of media, ranging from architecture, to furniture, to lighting, to accessories.  After attending the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci_Arc), he quickly began working with architecture firms dedicated to turn-key developments, where he specialized in delivering complex geometrical projects with rapid deadlines.  After winning numerous international competitions with firms based in architecture, he went on to open his own firm in 2010, called Dogmata, where he currently holds the position of design director.