Philip Liao graduated from Cornell University (U.S.A) and Eton College (U.K) and has more than 20 years of experience in the field of architecture, planning and interiors design. He has participated in award winning commercial, residential, hotel, heritage and community projects and has practiced in North America, Europe and Asia. He worked with SOM, Moffat Kinoshita (where he was Vice President) and Wong Tung International (where he was Associate Director - Design) prior to establishing Philip Liao and Partners in 2002.
Liao regularly Lectures at the international event – International Symposium on Revitalization of Urban Heritage Buildings and Sites, UNESCO Cultural Heritage Awards, New Trends for Architecture in Europe and Asia Pacific, the Hong Kong – Shenzhen Biennale, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen University, Guangzhou University, the Convention Centre for the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, the HKPES, Symposium on the Revitalisation – Hong Kong, Toronto and Vancouver, and at the Exchange Conference on the Future Trend of Architecture in Shanghai and Hong Kong. He serves as Alumni Interviewer for Cornell University School of Architecture, and has served as guest critic and external examiner for the Chinese University Department of Architecture, and the University of Hong Kong – Department of Architecture.
He has served as the architectural expert for the South China Morning Post and often serves as expert, as Juror and as professional advisor for architectural and planning competitions, including the Tsim Sha Tsui Piazza Competition, the Hong Kong Institute of Architects’ Annual Awards, and other competitions in Hong Kong and the PRC
Liao and firm has received awards from Cartier, Rollei and The Cognoscenti, HSBC, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and UNESCO. Philip Liao and Team won second Prize for the West Kowloon Reclamation Concept Plans Competition in 2004. The firm won the Urban Renewal Authority‘s Lee Tung Street Development Concept Competition Award. Philip Liao and Partners’s was also selected by jury panel to be included in the book ‘2021 Emerging Hong Kong Architects’.
Liao is an honorary trustee of Nanjing University and he also sits on the board of the Hong Kong Urban Renewal Authority, The Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design, and on the Buildings committee of the Hong Kong Golf Club.
