Design as a Multilingual Practice
Johnny Chiu is the founder of JC. Architecture & Design, a multidisciplinary studio based in Taipei with work across Taiwan and the United States. His education and international experience inform a practice that moves between architecture, interiors, furniture and public installations.
Chiu treats design as a language able to cross cultures and professional boundaries. Concepts are tested through real use, often combining experimentation with a direct reading of local habits, institutions and public life.
From Interior Space to Public Experience
Projects such as The Moving Kitchen for Taiwan Railway and A Little Museum Store for Taipei Fine Arts Museum show how the studio turns familiar programmes into new forms of participation.
The work is deliberately unconventional, but not detached from context. Its strongest projects use surprise to make cultural identity, movement and everyday behaviour newly visible.
