Jake Walker is a co-founder of Ballistic Architecture Machine (BAM), a transdisciplinary practice based in Beijing and Shanghai, working globally across landscape, urbanism, architecture, and experimental spatial research. He has led projects ranging from early landmarks like the Indigo Playground to major commissions such as the Shanghai Baoshan Waste-to-Energy plant, while guiding BAM’s broader Urban Initiatives, including the influential “Reimagining Guomao” and “Save Chaotianmen.” His work has been widely recognised, with recent honours from the Kyoto Global Design Award and the Architizer A+Awards. A frequent lecturer, with talks at Yixi, UCCA, ASLA, HKU, ChinaGSD, and the University of Toronto, Jake reflects critically on high-density urbanisation, synthetic environments, and landscape as a cultural and infrastructural medium. He holds a BArch from Cornell and an MDes from Harvard GSD, and teaches the seminar “Disciplinary Elasticity and Alternative Practice” at the GSD.
The Chinese public realm must be examined through its own cultural, political, and social logic, rather than through the ideological frameworks derived from the Western and American discourse on the public and public realm.
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