FIRM BIO

Based in the East Hampton, New York, STUDIO XIAO’s portfolio of built work includes residential and commercial projects that span across the US and around the world.  A compelling composition of mood, texture, sound and light are harnessed to satiate the senses in our approach to building contemporary spaces. 

Our work drives unity between function and visual appeal, borrowing from a reductionist design vocabulary that expresses purity in form. We build architecture that is responsive to its surroundings, harmonizing with nature’s rhythm and flow. Our intention is to inspire productivity as well as rest; and therefore, spaces must be flexible to host a range of activities for dynamic, yet balanced lifestyles. 

We build with longevity in mind. New buildings adopt forms and materials designed to transcend the ages while architectural relics are appreciated as capsules of time. As obsolete and old buildings are imprinted with the history of its users, we’re emboldened to borrow from the past while imagining new possibilities for the future.

FOUNDER BIO

Xiao Lin is the founder and principal of STUDIO XIAO. She spent her formative years between the US and China, and later earned a Masters of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Her early career trajectory set off with internships at Vector Architects in Beijing and subsequently, UNStudio in Amsterdam. Prior to establishing her own practice, she was a Project Manager at Bates Masi where she collaborated on numerous award-winning residential, commercial and hospitality projects.

She designs spaces that incite emotion and encapsulate memories. Her background and experience from an Eastern perspective imbues elements of surprise into her built work set within a Western context—especially as it relates to ideas of interiority and exteriority, communal spaces and courtyards all the while adopting the local vernacular language. For Xiao, architecture is a vehicle that broadens the range of human experience and cultivates moments for work and leisure; slowness and velocity; as well as solitude and togetherness.