On November 25, Forbes China magazine launched the list of "China's Most Influential Designers" and "China's Most Promising Emerging Designers". The list spans five design fields: architectural design, visual design, fashion design, industrial design and interior design, and has received widespread attention from all walks of life, especially the design community. LYCS Architecturefounder RUAN Hao won the 2015 Forbes "China's Most Promising Emerging Designers" award. On that day, dozens of top designers gathered in Hangzhou Mengqi Town, not only to share this honor granted by Forbes, but also to express their unique insights on the current design issues in China.
Earlier this year, RUAN Hao became the first architect on the Forbes 2015 list of China's 30 Under 30 Entrepreneurs. This time, he won the 2015 Forbes "China's Most Promising Emerging Designers" award, and Forbes gave the following reason for his selection: "You may not believe that influential designs such as the rooftop runway of Tiantai No. 2 Primary School and the popular Catable for cat slaves came from a 30-year-old architect. The work of a 30-year-old architect. RUAN Hao is a typical representative of China's new generation of post-80s architects, and despite his young age, he has already won numerous awards, including being a special expert of the 'Thousand Talents Program', the first architect to be selected as one of the 'Forbes China 30 Under 30 Entrepreneurs', and the first architect to be named as one of the 'China Young Entrepreneurs 2014', He is the youngest recipient of the 'China Young Architect Award 2014' of the China Institute of Architects. His highly critical attitude, dynamic design and subtle fresh style design works have a large influence in the architectural design community of the young post-80s generation. "
RUAN Hao is the founder of LYCS Architecture, a professor at the School of Architecture of China Academy of Art, and a leading figure of post-85 designers. He is also the founder of furnishing, the largest online design platform in China. RUAN Hao has a master's degree in architecture from Princeton University and a master's and bachelor's degree in architecture from Tsinghua University. He is the youngest visiting scholar in the history of Harvard University School of Design. He is the first architect and interior designer to be selected as one of the Forbes China 30 Under 30 Entrepreneurs. He is also the youngest recipient of the China Young Architects Award, the highest honor for young architects in China, and has been honored as one of the "World's 50 Innovative Designers Under 50" and a "Goldman Sachs Global Leader". Goldman Sachs Global Leaders", etc. RUAN Hao`s work has won several international awards and has been widely recognized by the global media, including the New York Times, Time Magazine and Forbes.
