Architecture Faculty

Leadership


Leyuan Li headshot

Leyuan Li

Visiting Assistant Professor

Email Address:leyuan.li@ucdenver.edu


About

Leyuan Li is a Chinese architect, educator, and researcher whose professional and academic work focuses on interior and urban realms in the articulation of underrepresented identities, situations, and societies. He has practiced architecture internationally at OMA, SOM, and Affordable Housing Lab.

Li is the founder of Office for Roundtable, a collaborative practice that explores architectural and interior types in relation to environmental and social issues. Recent built works seek to interrogate the rapidly changing urban environment in China through the exploration of interior forms, and have been featured in Art and Design Magazine (China), Architecture and Urbanism (China), and Frame Magazine, among others.

Li is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture with an Emphasis on Issues of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of Colorado Denver. He has taught at Rice University’s School of Architecture and the University of Houston, and has been invited to lectures and reviews at Nanjing University, Syracuse University, and Rhode Island School of Design.

Li’s work has been published in journals and books, including PLAT, New York Review of Architecture, and Drawing Codes ((AR+D, 2023), and has been exhibited at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, OCAT Museum in Shanghai, Citygroup Gallery in New York City, and the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen. His curatorial project, titled Your Kitchen Is Your Dining Room Is Your Greenhouse, has received a DESIGN TRUST Seed Grant from the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design and will be on display in June 2023.


Research & Creative Projects

A working garden at Balchen for the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

Leyuan Li, Balchen, 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Shenzhen (2022). Photo by Wenhan Dong.

Work room drawings for the exhibition for Leyuan Li's project presented at the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen.

Leyuan Li, Your Kitchen Is Your Dining Room Is Your Greenhouse, 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Shenzhen (2022). Photo by Wenhan Dong.

Model of Room City, a project from Li's time teaching at the Rice School of Architecture

Leyuan Li, Room City, Rice School of Architecture, Houston, TX (2020).

Interior view of shelving and a long conference table at the U Showroom in Guizhou, China

Leyuan Li, U Showroom, Guizhou, China (2020).

Slash Cafe interior in Haikou, China including a bar and barstools.

Leyuan Li, Slash Cafe, Haikou, China (2020).

Full-Time Faculty


Leyuan Li headshot

Leyuan Li

Visiting Assistant Professor

Email Address:leyuan.li@ucdenver.edu


About

Leyuan Li is a Chinese architect, educator, and researcher whose professional and academic work focuses on interior and urban realms in the articulation of underrepresented identities, situations, and societies. He has practiced architecture internationally at OMA, SOM, and Affordable Housing Lab.

Li is the founder of Office for Roundtable, a collaborative practice that explores architectural and interior types in relation to environmental and social issues. Recent built works seek to interrogate the rapidly changing urban environment in China through the exploration of interior forms, and have been featured in Art and Design Magazine (China), Architecture and Urbanism (China), and Frame Magazine, among others.

Li is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture with an Emphasis on Issues of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of Colorado Denver. He has taught at Rice University’s School of Architecture and the University of Houston, and has been invited to lectures and reviews at Nanjing University, Syracuse University, and Rhode Island School of Design.

Li’s work has been published in journals and books, including PLAT, New York Review of Architecture, and Drawing Codes ((AR+D, 2023), and has been exhibited at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, OCAT Museum in Shanghai, Citygroup Gallery in New York City, and the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen. His curatorial project, titled Your Kitchen Is Your Dining Room Is Your Greenhouse, has received a DESIGN TRUST Seed Grant from the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design and will be on display in June 2023.


Research & Creative Projects

A working garden at Balchen for the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

Leyuan Li, Balchen, 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Shenzhen (2022). Photo by Wenhan Dong.

Work room drawings for the exhibition for Leyuan Li's project presented at the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen.

Leyuan Li, Your Kitchen Is Your Dining Room Is Your Greenhouse, 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Shenzhen (2022). Photo by Wenhan Dong.

Model of Room City, a project from Li's time teaching at the Rice School of Architecture

Leyuan Li, Room City, Rice School of Architecture, Houston, TX (2020).

Interior view of shelving and a long conference table at the U Showroom in Guizhou, China

Leyuan Li, U Showroom, Guizhou, China (2020).

Slash Cafe interior in Haikou, China including a bar and barstools.

Leyuan Li, Slash Cafe, Haikou, China (2020).

Part-Time Faculty and Lecturers


Leyuan Li headshot

Leyuan Li

Visiting Assistant Professor

Email Address:leyuan.li@ucdenver.edu


About

Leyuan Li is a Chinese architect, educator, and researcher whose professional and academic work focuses on interior and urban realms in the articulation of underrepresented identities, situations, and societies. He has practiced architecture internationally at OMA, SOM, and Affordable Housing Lab.

Li is the founder of Office for Roundtable, a collaborative practice that explores architectural and interior types in relation to environmental and social issues. Recent built works seek to interrogate the rapidly changing urban environment in China through the exploration of interior forms, and have been featured in Art and Design Magazine (China), Architecture and Urbanism (China), and Frame Magazine, among others.

Li is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture with an Emphasis on Issues of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of Colorado Denver. He has taught at Rice University’s School of Architecture and the University of Houston, and has been invited to lectures and reviews at Nanjing University, Syracuse University, and Rhode Island School of Design.

Li’s work has been published in journals and books, including PLAT, New York Review of Architecture, and Drawing Codes ((AR+D, 2023), and has been exhibited at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, OCAT Museum in Shanghai, Citygroup Gallery in New York City, and the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen. His curatorial project, titled Your Kitchen Is Your Dining Room Is Your Greenhouse, has received a DESIGN TRUST Seed Grant from the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design and will be on display in June 2023.


Research & Creative Projects

A working garden at Balchen for the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

Leyuan Li, Balchen, 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Shenzhen (2022). Photo by Wenhan Dong.

Work room drawings for the exhibition for Leyuan Li's project presented at the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen.

Leyuan Li, Your Kitchen Is Your Dining Room Is Your Greenhouse, 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Shenzhen (2022). Photo by Wenhan Dong.

Model of Room City, a project from Li's time teaching at the Rice School of Architecture

Leyuan Li, Room City, Rice School of Architecture, Houston, TX (2020).

Interior view of shelving and a long conference table at the U Showroom in Guizhou, China

Leyuan Li, U Showroom, Guizhou, China (2020).

Slash Cafe interior in Haikou, China including a bar and barstools.

Leyuan Li, Slash Cafe, Haikou, China (2020).