Jiageng Guo is a Brooklyn-based architectural designer from Xinjiang, China. His work operates within the 2 % deviation—the space where built precision meets cultural shift. Through both professional practice and research, he explores how small misalignments in systems, materials, and rituals can reveal critique toward dominant cultures —the 98 %— and open new civic, social, and aesthetic possibilities.

With experience across New York, China, and Japan, Jiageng has contributed to projects ranging from civic infrastructure to intimate interiors. His portfolio includes large-scale developments such as SPARC Kips Bay and 343 47th Street, alongside independent works that challenge conventional typologies through narrative, fabrication, and pedagogy.

2 % OFF serves as both a design concept and a pedagogical platform—bridging practice and speculation, making and teaching. Each project becomes a micro-curriculum: a study in how architecture can question its own assumptions while remaining deeply material and human.

Beyond architecture, Jiageng’s interests extend into interiors, branding, product design, and writing—using these parallel practices as research into form, ritual, and counterculture. His work seeks to foster dialogue across disciplines and geographies, aligning spatial design with cultural and ecological responsibility.

Jiageng Guo holds a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Minnesota and an M.Arch from Columbia University GSAPP.



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