WANG Nai Huei

Casey Wang is a practitioner and educator in architecture and urbanism active in Greater China. She is the founder of multidisciplinary design practice, BLEND. She received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from National Cheng Kung University and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). Her academic and professional practice and research is primarily focused on architectural / urban design and urban infrastructure.

Her early work and experience was in Shanghai from 2003-2005. Then from 2005-2007 in Cambridge, MA at the GSD where her concentration was on the Boston metropolitan area, a proposal to reshape Tsinghua University Campus, the Detroit Music Experience Museum, and the Almere area in the Netherlands.

In 2006, Casey participated on the Metropol Parasol Seville project at J. Mayer H. Architecture Design and Research in Berlin. From 2007-2009 she was part of Foster and Partners in London on projects including the Robert Gorden University in Aberdeen and the Birmingham Library in the UK, the Esentai residential complex in Kazakhstan, and the Yale School of Management. In late 2009, she returned to Asia and joined OMA HK, working with Rem Koolhaas on key projects including the complete design phases of the Taipei Performing Arts Center, Shenzhen Qianhai Port City and the Tencent Beijing Headquarters. From 2013-2015, she was a Project Manager at Gensler responsible for projects in Zhuhai and Guangzhou, China, as well as developments across Malaysia, Vietnam and Australia.

Casey was an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Master of Urban Design program at the University of Hong Kong (hku) Faculty of Architecture and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She co-edited the books Factory Towns of South China, Villages in the City, and lectured in various insti¬tutes in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Germany, and Bangladesh. She was invited exhibitor for 2011-2012 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/ Architecture. She also served as fellow member of Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design.