Pinzhen Li

Pinzhen Li is a designer working across architecture, performance, installations, exhibitions, and visual practice. Drawing from architecture, economics, and art, she explores how spatial design can engage social environments, collective experience, and public participation.

She holds a Master of Architecture from UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, where her thesis received the Chester Miller Fellowship and was nominated for the Raymond Watson Prize and the Sooky Lee Prize for Housing & Social Architecture. She also holds a Bachelor of Economics from Jinan University in Guangzhou.

Her architectural practice spans the United States and China, most recently at Herman Coliver Locus Architecture and Anderson Anderson Architecture, where she has contributed to supportive housing, community, residential, exhibition, and cultural projects across a range of scales.