TEDO

TEDO

TEDO was founded in Shanghai in late 2022. It is an independent design brand dedicated to multi-faceted spatial design, integrating architecture, interior design, art installations, spatial curation, and narrative placemaking into one. Based in Shanghai and reaching nationwide, the studio maintains an independent creative perspective and a professional design ethos, breaking through conventional disciplinary boundaries to build a holistic, integrated spatial design service system.

The founders, Hong Yang and Zhao Jiaxin, graduated from the AA School of Architecture and the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) respectively — two of the world’s leading architecture institutions. With years of deep practice in the field, they have accumulated cutting-edge design thinking and rich hands-on experience. Combining an international vision, solid academic grounding, and rigorous professionalism, they have developed a complete design system that balances rational order with humanistic warmth, endowing every project with a distinctive design soul and profound value.

Born amid the unique post-pandemic era, the studio keenly perceives society’s renewed needs for space, nature, and emotion. Adopting an independent perspective as social observers, it treats architectural space as a narrative vehicle that carries emotion and conveys ideas — rejecting ostentatious form in favor of spatial essence and people’s authentic needs. Through refined micro-scale spatial interventions, it seeks the profound in the small, gently reconstructing the multi-dimensional relationships among people, nature, society, and time within the contemporary context. Space is thus no longer a cold functional container, but an emotional vessel that echoes the mood of the era and fits the essence of life.

Guided by the core philosophy of “building a condensed sense of shelter through order,” the team upholds a rigorous sense of order and logic in its work, shaping a sharp, tactile quality through clean and crisp spatial expression. Beneath this disciplined framework lies a delicate care for human perception and emotional needs, so that every space carries both the beauty of order and humanistic warmth.

In practice, the studio insists on a precise, subtle “light-touch” intervention. It respects each site’s original texture, regional culture, and authentic way of life, thoroughly reading the site’s context, lifestyle logic, and spiritual core. Rejecting over-design and forced transformation, it follows the principle of going with the flow, allowing design to merge seamlessly with site, nature, and life. Through spatial form, it awakens human perception, stimulating participation and exploration, dissolving the barrier between people and space, and letting users truly inhabit and experience it. The result is a body of work that holds a restrained, steady core while carrying comforting warmth and vital life force — responding to the era and paying tribute to life through design, bringing greater humanistic value and emotional meaning to contemporary spatial practice.