Denver, CO
Guangzhou, China
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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 of sharing as catalysts for constructing collective narratives.
Roundtable’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues including La Casa de la Arquitectura in Madrid, Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen, São Paulo International Architecture Biennale, and Timișoara Architecture Biennale. Recent projects have been featured in Fundación Arquia, PLOT, ArchDaily, Dezeen, Designboom, The Architect’s Newspaper, Gooood, and KoozArch, among others. Their work has also been recognized as a finalist for several design awards, including the Dezeen Awards and ArchDaily’s Building of the Year. Most recently, Office for Roundtable received an Honorable Mention in The Architect’s Newspaper’s Best of Practice Awards in the Architect (New Firm) – Southwest category in 2025.
“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。”
Li is a recipient of the Art Omi Architecture Fellowship and the MacDowell Fellowship. His research centers on the agency of the interior as an infrastructure of care, confronting injustices embedded in urban landscapes. Through curatorial projects and public installations, he examines the ecological, political, and social dimensions of contemporary living crises. His writing has appeared in publications including PLAT, New York Review of Architecture, Paprika!, Rumor, and Dichotomy. His work has been featured in Fundación Arquia, ArchDaily, Dezeen, PLOT, and The Architect’s Newspaper, and exhibited internationally at venues including History Colorado Center in Denver, La Casa de la Arquitectura in Madrid, Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen, São Paulo International Architecture Biennale, and Timișoara Architecture Biennale.
Li’s teaching is closely aligned with his research. In design studios, students investigate overlooked concepts, elements, and conditions within domestic and public interiors. He has been invited to lecture and serve as a critic at institutions including Princeton University, Cornell AAP, Ohio State University, Nanjing University, Syracuse University, and Rhode Island School of Design. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and creative work, including the ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award (2024, 2025), ACSA Creative Achievement Award (2026), ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award (2026), and ACSA Faculty Design Award (2026).
Li studied at the University of Cambridge and Nanjing University before receiving his Master of Architecture from Rice University. He practiced internationally at OMA and SOM before founding his design practice, Office for Roundtable.
Xuanyu “Alfred” Wei is an architectural designer working at the intersection of art and architecture. Originally from China, Wei has practiced in Hangzhou, Los Angeles, Houston, and New York City. With Diller Scofidio + Renfro, he recently completed two projects for the Venice Biennale Architettura 2025: a lightweight, mobile bookstore and a hybrid water filtration system that transforms canal water into espresso. His ongoing work on social housing—including the Bundle House, with Office of Roundtable, which explores the feasibility of implementing single-stair housing in the U.S.—seeks to offer alternative architectural interventions for the ongoing housing crisis. His master’s thesis project, Place for Entourage, questions the ideology-driven, top-down approach of modernist architectural practice and imagines a more democratic public space.
He is a recipient of William D. Darden Thesis Award, Margaret Everson-Fossi Fellowship, and AIA Merit Awards from Columbus, OH, and Fort Worth, TX. Wei holds bachelor of engineering from China Academy of Art and master of architecture from Rice university.
Andrea Malta is an architectural designer whose work treats architecture as a medium of negotiation. Her projects operate through systems, constraints, and translation, using design to construct relationships rather than resolve them. Her work engages tensions between history and form, object and space, and permanence and change. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Colorado Denver, where her work examined how design engages evolving social, cultural, and spatial conditions. Through academic and independent work, she has developed an approach that extends architecture beyond buildings, operating across objects, representation, and spatial systems.
Zach Beck, Blake Brooks,
Lorelai Brunner, 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