A Design Practice based in Colorado.
Office for Roundtable
01/25
Li is awarded with the 2024-25 CU President's Fund for the Humanities to support the symposium “Part of Interior” he co-organizes with Peter Yi.
12/24
Li is awarded a fellowship to the 2025 Architecture Residency program at Art Omi.
Ghent, New York
12/24
Your Greenhouse Is Your Kitchen Is Your Living Room is featured on Designboom, Gooood, ArchDaily, and The Radical Project.
12/24
Li presents at the 18th DOCOMOMO International Conference hosted at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Santiago, Chile
10/24
In collaboration with History Colorado and Colorado Asian Pacific United, Li co-curates the exhibition “Where is Denver’s Chinatown” hosted at the History Colorado Center. Featured on Denverite, The Denver Post, and Colorado Community Media, among others.Denver, Colorado
06/24
Li receives the CU President’s Timmerhaus Fund Ambassadors to suuport his Chinatown exhibition.Denver, Colorado
06/24
Li presents at the 2024 ACSA International Conference hosted at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Querétaro, Mexico
05/24
Li is invited by Ekin Erar to serve as a guest critic for the  Gensler Visiting Studio she co-teaches with Roisin Heneghan at Cornell AAP.
Ithaca, New York
04/24
Li is invited by Jessica Colangelo to serve as a guest critic for secoond-year studio final reviews at the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture.fayetteville, Arkansas
04/24
Li is invited by Xinyu Chen to give an online lecture, titled “The Suppressed Interior,” for her seminar at Syracuse University.
03/24
Li is listed as one of the 29 designers, architects, and artists to watch in 2024 by Design Miami.
03/24
Li co-presents the award-winning studio with José Ibarraat the 2024 ACSA Annual Meeting held in Vancouver, Canada.Vancouver, Canada
03/24
Li presents at the National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) 2024 hosted by the University of Louisiana Lafayette and Louisiana Tech University.Lafayette, Louisiana
01/24
Li and José’s Graduate Studio 2 “Denver Low-Rise: New Domestic Forms of Collective Living" wins the 2024 ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award.
01/24
Li and Sarah Hearne curate the Spring 2024 Lecture and Exhibition Series at CU Denver.
11/23Li is invited to serve as a guest critic for final reviews at Texas Tech University School of Architecture.
11/23
Li is invited to serve as a guest critic for Xinyu Chen’s final review at Syracuse University School of Architecture.
10/23
Li presents at the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) 2023 hosted by Politecnico di Milano.Milan, Italy
08/01
Student work from Li and José’s Graduate Studio 2 in Spring 2023 is featured on Dezeen.
05/23Li presents at the National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) 2023 hosted by North Dakota State University.Fargo, North Dakota
04/23
“Chinatown Initiatives” receives the Arts and Humanities Seed Grant from the University of Colorado Denver.
03/23“Domestic Infrastructure of Care” is included in Rumor 29.Princeton, New Jersey
03/23
“Teaching, etc.” is included in Architecture Writing Workshop’s A Look at the Classom.
03/23
Li joins the University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planningas Assistant Professor of Architecture.
02/23
Li is invited to join the“Interdisciplinary in Human-Environment Integration” Panel Discussion, hosted by Nanjing University, China, and the University of Cambridge, UK. Chaired by Professor FrancoisPenz, University of Cambridge, UK.
01/23
Li serves as the Exhibition Chair for ACADIA 2023, Habits of the Anthropocene.
12/22
Your Kitchen Is Your Dining Room Is Your Greenhouse, receives the Design Trust Seed Grant from the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design.
11/22
“Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall” is included in PLAT 11.0: Soft.
08/22
Balchen, is exhibited at the ninth Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture.
Shenzhen, China
07/12 Li joins the University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planning as Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture.
05/22
Li is invited to give a lecture, All about Room, at Nanjing University Department of Architecture.





Location
Denver, CO

Email
info@officeforroundtable.com


Leyuan Li is a Chinese architect, educator, and researcher whose professional and academic work focuses on interior and urban realms in the articulation of spaces and societies. He has practiced architecture internationally at OMA, SOM, and Affordable Housing Lab. He is the founder of Office for Roundtable, a design collective exploring different forms and events of sharing. Recent built projects have been featured on ArchDaily, Designboom, Architect’s Newspaper, Gooood, and KoozArch, among others.
Li is currently an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Colorado Denver. He was a visiting assistant professor of architecture at the same institution, and has taught at Rice University’s School of Architecture and the University of Houston. He has been invited to lecture and review at numerous institutions, including Cal Poly, Cornell AAP, Ohio State University, Nanjing University, Syracuse University, and Rhode Island School of Design. Most recently, the housing studio he developed was awarded the AIA/ACSA Housing Design Education Award in both 2024 and 2025.

A recipient of the Art Omi Architecture Fellowship (2025) and the MacDowell Fellowship (2025), Li’s research and writing have been published in PLAT, New York Review of Architecture, Paprika!, Rumor, and Architecture Writing Workshop. His work has been hosted and exhibited at the History Colorado Center in Denver, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, OCAT Museum in Shanghai, and Citygroup Gallery in New York City. His recent project, Balchen, investigated entrenched ecological and cultural care for food production and was exhibited at the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen. His curatorial project, Your Greenhouse Is Your Kitchen Is Your Living Room, received a DESIGN TRUST Seed Grant from the Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design and was on view at FEI Arts in Guangzhou.

Li studied at the University of Cambridge and Nanjing University before receiving his Master of Architecture with distinction from Rice University. He is the faculty advisor for NOMAS at the University of Colorado Denver, and served as the chair of Exhibition at ACADIA 2023. Most recently, he was elected to serve as the 2024-2027 ACSA Liaison to the AIAS Board.



︎︎︎ leyuanli@officeforroundtable.com
︎︎︎ leyuan.li@ucdenver.edu
Office

Office for Roundtable Office for Roundtable is a design practice and research collective led by Leyuan Li, currently based in Denver, Colorado, and Guangzhou, China. Their projects span a broad spectrum of different types and scales at the cross-section between interior and urban realms, exploring spaces and events that facilitate sharing among diverse communities to create collective narratives. Operating across multiple disciplines, Office for Roundtable advocates architecture as the framework for dialogue and collaboration to address emerging social, political, and social issues. Their projects rethink the power of small-scale and informal interventions as forms of creative practices, encouraging behaviors and actions of sharing to promote collective care, comfort, and memory.


“圆桌工作室由黎乐源创建于美国丹佛和中国广州，是一所面向建筑与室内设计、专注建筑与城市室内主义理论的研究工作室。圆桌工作室倡导建筑作为跨学科交流合作的载体，以创新的工作和思辨方式发掘新型的空间形式，促进多样化视角下的集体叙事，积极回应当代城市语境下的社会、环境与空间议题。工作室的创新实践关注于小尺度和非正式性的空间干预，通过共享的理念来探索面向多元化族群的集体实践。”


︎ Collaborators

Blake Brooks, Stephanie Clouse, Hannah Drummond, Shan Jiang, Taylor Li, Kejia Liu, Trevor Motzsko, Jackson Prdrazzi, Samu Shrestha, JXY Studio (Jiaxun Xu and Yue Xu), Efklides Tzimapitis,Brandon Wunder, Yao Wang, Xiuquan Zhao





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