Location
Denver, CO

Email
info@officeforroundtable.com

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。”

Leyuan Li

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 Dezeen, PLOT, ArchDaily, Designboom, Architect’s Newspaper, Gooood, and KoozArch, among others. Most recently, Office for Roundtable was awarded an Honorable Mention in AN’s Best of Practice Awards in the Architect (New Firm) - Southwest category in 2025.

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 taught at Rice University’s School of Architecture and the University of Houston. He has delivered lectures and served as a guest critic 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 exhibited at the 14th São Paulo International Architecture Biennale (BIAsp), themed “Extremes: Architectures for an Overheated Planet” in September 2025.

Li studied at the University of Cambridge and Nanjing University before receiving his Master of Architecture with distinction from Rice University.

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

Current Collaborators

Zach Beck is an architectural designer and assistant researcher at the Office for Roundtable. He is also an artist and designer currently studying at the University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planning (CAP). His latest studio project, a creative residency for textile manufacturing and outdoor clothing design, received the Architecture Studio Award from CAP. He is also an active participant in the Denver art scene and has had artwork exhibited in the Experience Gallery in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

Lorelai Brunner is an architectural designer and assistant researcher at the Office for Roundtable. She is currently studying at the University of Colorado Denver’s College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) while participating in the University’s Honors and Leadership Program. Her most recent studio project was a creative residency exploring the intersection of children’s book illustration and pediatric autism research. She also works in CAP’s fabrication labs, where she supports student safety and project development. Outside of school and work, Lorelai is a seamstress who enjoys reading and spending time with her cat, Pluto.

Past 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

Last Updated 25.06