Partner and chief architect of GOA, RIBA Chartered Architect, Wang Yan graduated from the Department of Architecture of Tongji University in 2001 and obtained a Master degree of Architecture at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (Dipl. Arch, ETH Zurich) in 2004. He has been honoured with multiple international awards of prestigious organisations such as LEAF, WAF and Architectural Society of China for his representative works, among which SPSI Art Museum, Dingli Art Museum, Fengying Stone Art Museum, JNBY Warehousing Logistics Park and Cultural Tourism Town and Exhibition Gallery in the hometown of Zhangjian.