BEAU Architects is a Hong Kong based architecture studio exploring the notions of context, programme, materiality, and construction. The resulting body of work displays an expressive, primary questioning of the relation between objectives and the means to achieve them, recently culminating in experiments in construction methods and adaptive reuse. In addition, both founders are involved in the academic field as professors and guest critics. Gilles Vanderstocken is teaching at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (School of Design) since 2015, leading 2 design studios per year, while together with Charlotte Lafont-Hugo, they lead a M.Arch. studio on adaptive reuse, a studio on material experimentation and a couple of thesis supervision at the University of Hong Kong (Faculty of Architecture) since 2022.