Ximeng Pan

Spring 2019 seminar: M.Arch. candidate, architecture

Ximeng Pan is a third-year master of architecture student in Cornell AAP. He lived in Shenzhen, China for nearly 18 years and earned his bachelor of architecture degree at Hunan University. With interest in visual narrative including architectural illustration, film, and paintings, he attended a narrative architecture workshop and started to explore the relationship between text and imaginary, literature, and visual representation. After getting his B.Arch. degree, he continued to study architecture design in the M.Arch. program at Cornell. He was an intern at the Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates New York City office from Jun, 2018 to August 2018, where he worked on the schematic design phase of the Changi Airport Terminal 5 project in Singapore. As a Mellon fellow, he wants to explore the intersection between narration and architectural language.