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    Form Meets Function

    Dec 10, 2019 2 minutes
    Text Sophie Kalkreuth
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    Chiasmus Partners

    Over tea at New York’s Baccarat Hotel, James Wei Ke, design principal at Chiasmus Partners, shows me photos of his firm’s latest project, a village in Zhejiang province that resembles a scene from a traditional Chinese ink wash painting.

    Flanked by limestone cliffs and

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