Tzou Studios is an award-winning architectural practice based in Vienna, Austria. Our practice is built on the belief that architecture is a social act, part of a process by which desires are materialized causing environments to change. We believe that architecture only gains relevance through an open dialog. Each of our projects is influenced by the qualities of individual places and by the people that inhabit them. While the outcome of our work may vary widely in shape or form, our design process remains sensitive to a context and to the desires that promise to change it.

We are committed to the idea that design can inspire; that it can enrich our lives and affect the way we interact with the world around us.

Our projects are the result of the communication that brought them into being: the thinking and talking, the tinkering and drawing. While we value an idea for its clarity, we know that such clarity often depends on playful experimentation. Our work hopes to instill an aware.

Chieh-shu Tzou was born in Taiwan in 1978. He received his professional degree in architecture from the Technical University in Vienna and a master's degree in industrial design from the University of Applied Arts in 2006. In 2000 he returned to Taiwan to work in the fields of architecture and urban design. Between 2002 and 2005 he was an assistant instructor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna under Professor Borek Sipek. In 2005 he founded Studio9005 together with Conrad Kroencke and realized several commercial projects in Vienna. In 2007, he established Tzou Lubroth Architekten together with Gregorio Lubroth. Chieh-shu Tzou is a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.