2025 Prize Recipient

Junxi Liu (MArch'26)

The Kanter Tritsch Prize in Energy and Architectural Innovation

Junxi Liu is a designer from Shenzhen, China, with a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Design from Guangzhou University. He is currently pursuing a Master of Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. With an interdisciplinary background, he was drawn to architecture for its unique ability to bring together all other forms of art—where music meets painting, painting meets literature, and all ultimately converge within architectural space.

His work focuses on redefining architectural systems through the perspective of form, constantly seeking architecture’s liminal states—those moments in which boundaries blur and spatial logic is reimagined. Beyond the classroom, he engages in travel-based research to experience architecture across cultures and environments, believing that direct experience is essential to architectural learning. He has also participated in global design platforms such as Digital Futures.

His achievements have been recognized with awards including the Schenck-Woodman Award, the E. Lewis Dales Traveling Fellowship, the Atkin Fellowship, and the 2025 Kanter Tritsch Prize in Energy and Architectural Innovation. He is deeply grateful to the mentors and peers who have inspired and supported his journey. For him, this recognition is not only personal but also a celebration of the spirit of collaboration and collective creativity he values deeply. 

Weitzman School Awards: Junxi Liu (MArch'26)

Junxi Liu
Junxi Liu
  • Diagrammatic study using site geometry to generate dynamic spatial interplay in an urban bathhouse concept.
  • Physical model showcasing the spatial relationship between figures and containers through interlocking forms.
  • Sectional model illustrating how interwoven circulation mediates between embedded figures and enclosing containers to generate layered and spaces.
  • 3D sectional perspective revealing a vertically layered public core where ornament transforms into circulation and spatial structure.
  • The floor plan exploring Non-linear housing layout organized around a central core, where ornament informs diverse spatial relationships across varying unit types.
  • Façade ornament transforms into spatial infrastructure, enabling surface, structure, and interior space to merge and interact, blurring their boundaries.