Character

Tsui opened his design office in 1990 in Emeryville California. He has authored four books that have been voted ‘recommended reading’ by the Royal Institute of British Architects and the American Institute of Building Design. He is a champion athlete, winning four Master’s Olympics All Around Gymnastics titles and eight Presidential Sports Awards from U.S. Presidents, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and is a performing musician. He is also a recipient of numerous grants and awards. Eloquent, photogenic and frequently wearing strikingly unusual clothes of his own design, Tsui is featured on global television programs such as National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel,  Home and Garden Channel. Eugene Tsui, is to many, the hero of architectural ecological design.His efforts did not come easy. Two decades ago Dr. Tsui was expelled from two schools for his “conceptual differences” as one professor called it. Even at the University of California, Berkeley professors tried to remove exhibitions of his work because they did not want their students to see “this kind of work” which nearly caused a riot between professors and students.

• Eugene Tsui has designed a city tower, the Ultima Tower/Sky City, two miles high with a base big enough to cover the entire financial district of New York City. In fact, every tall building ever conceived, grouped together, is easily dwarfed and swallowed by Tsui’s colossal tower structure.
  
  
• A developer from Florida has asked Tsui to design a floating city. Tsui’s fantastic design, which looks similar to a giant Trilobite, is seven miles long and three miles wide using concrete leeched from mineral salts in the ocean and features a tidal wave barrier, marine agriculture farm design and 26 underwater, electric propellers for mobility.
  
  
• The fish House in Berkeley. Residence of Tsui’s parents inspired on the study of a microscopic and indestructible animal named the tartigrade.
  
  
• Eugene Tsui, has designed the longest bridge in the world spanning the Strait of Gibraltar and connecting the continents of Europe and Africa. This revolutionary design does not resemble any existing bridge and features an original floating and submerging concept while creating a three mile wide floating island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.When asked about how he developed the concept he states, “I asked myself how nature would create a bridge to span the Strait of Gibraltar and this is the result. I have formed a partnership with nature and discovered nature’s power to design and problem solve far surpasses all the computers on earth.”

Tsui has designed projects in Spain, Portugal, China, Canada and the USA. His projects include theme parks, residential developments and multi-use buildings in China; a museum for Salvador Dali art in Tossa De Mar, Spain; a residence near Lisbon, Portugal and residences, schools and museums in the USA and Canada.He wants to build a school of architecture in Mount Shasta, California.

Life upon Tsui

Tsui’s office is like an international school for the training of a new generation of socially and ecologically conscious architects, designers, engineers, biologists and educators. Students and professionals come from all over the world to study with him. They engage in the research of nature’s forms and organic processes, create new kinds of construction materials and work with biologists to apply biological science to the built environment.
In the office they write poetry and songs and recite poems at lunch hour. Perhaps the epigram on a giant yellow and orange curved wall in Tsui’s office best summarizes the spirit of his work.

The Reach For Freedom Is The Noble Legacy Of Human Dignity.