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Michelle (Ye Min)

Founding Partner, Fei Architects & Fei Arts

Class‑1 Registered Architect (China)
RIBA Chartered Architect
Chair Professor, the School of Architecture, South China University of Technology
Professor of Practice, the Department of Architecture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Michelle founded FEI in 2006, rooted in southern China. FEI Architects serves as a spatial practice platform while FEI Arts functions as a research hub. Guided by the design philosophy of “Artecture” (art‑infused architecture), she works toward urban community building — every building, to her, is a Borderless Community.

Her notable projects cover community building, urban renewal and participatory design, including Estate Plaza, Fang Suo Commune, Si Hai Han She, comprehensive Xinghai Concert Hall renovation, Zi Ni Twelve Portals · Borderless Community, Ersha Island Man Lap Fong, and the School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University. Zi Ni Twelve Portals – Borderless Community was featured by Yitiao, earning over 300 million views and sparking discussions on future residential design.

Her works have won Dezeen Awards Gold Award, WAN Award Gold Award, WA Award, Good Design Award and China Design Biennale Award.

Since 2016, together with artist Song Dong and Mapping Workshop founder Jason Ho, she has advanced the “Borderless” concept via FEI Arts, bringing public education into everyday urban life. Boundary‑breaking projects such as Market Museum, Public Garden and Architecture, or Architecture show new ways for architects and artists to build Borderless Communities.

Michelle (Ye Min)

Organisation Description

Deeply rooted in southern China, FEI drives urban‑community development through architecture and art. FEI Architects is the spatial‑practice arm, and FEI Arts acts as its artistic‑research platform. Under the philosophy of “Artecture” (art‑infused architecture), FEI explores intersections of architecture, art and community, holding that every building is a Borderless Community.

FEI Architects pursues place‑based construction. It creates micro‑climatic public spaces to strengthen connections between people and nature, and among people. Its core design strategies include internalizing Chinese‑garden principles, thickened façades, and refined execution of raw materials.

Representative works — FEI Xingqi Borderless Community, Zi Ni Twelve Portals · Borderless Community, the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University, Libo Dark Tea Tribe in Ganzi Prefecture, Ersha Island Man Lap Fong, and Xinghai Concert Hall series renovations — have all become local cultural‑art hubs.

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