Ho + Hou studio Architects

Ho + Hou studio Architects is a design driven practice working in architectural, interior, and landscape designs. The two partners, Albert Ho and Jen-Suh Hou, amassed over a decade of professional experience in New York and Boston prior to establishing their own firm in Taipei in 1997. During two decades of practice, the firm has gathered a group of dedicated individuals to execute award winning projects.

We view our role as facilitators of our client's dreams. We listen, evaluate, and analyze. The solutions that we formulate embrace both the functional and the aesthetic. It is through a design's functionality role we ascertain its aesthetic values; conversely, we make aesthetic proposals based on their intrinsic functional qualities.

We believe that design is an intricate part of our lives, rather than an appliqué. Empowered by our clients, we wish to reveal that which is inherent through our designs. We avoid the trendy and the stylish. We believe a design begins only after it has passed onto our client's hands. In the end, it should weather and age with grace.

Albert Ho

Albert grew up in Singapore, having moved from Taiwan at age 5. The Garden City was a treasure trove of modern architecture which revealed itself later in Albert’s endeavors. He started freshman year in civil engineering. While in the engineering library, he accidentally stumbled upon a series of magazine articles on architecture from Architectural Review. The issues of history, art, materiality, and, of course, architecture was a revelation and prompting him to transfer to architecture. He received a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Houston with a Master’s of Architecture degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Work experiences included stints in firms in Boston, Schwartz/ Silver Architects, and New York, PKSB Architects. Albert returned in 1997 to Taiwan, and formed Ho + Hou Studio Architects with partner Jen-Suh Hou.

Jen-Suh Hou

Jen-Suh grew up in Taiwan and majored in geography with a Bachelor’s Degree from The National Taiwan University. Her interest in design persisted throughout her college years. After graduation, she enrolled in the Master’s program in landscape architecture at Harvard’s GSD. That led to further interest in architecture, prompting a second Master’s degree in Architecture from Columbia University. And after graduation, she worked in various New York firms, Perkins & Wills, Raphael Vinoly Architects, and Kohn, Patterson & Fox. In 1998, she sold her apartment in Brooklyn Heights, and returned to Taiwan. Together with her partner Albert Ho, she set up Ho + Hou Studio Architects in 1997. New York states Association of architects Design Exellence Award, 1995 AIA New York chapter design award. 1996 AIA national honor award.