Mr. Jingjun Li, recognized as one of Forbes' 2025 International Education Innovators of Influence, bridges global architectural practice with cross-cultural academic dissemination. His distinguished career spans elite institutions across China and the United States, including pivotal design roles at Ennead Architects (New York), CAZA&SURBA (led by Harvard GSD former dean Peter Rowe), and MAD Architects. As a visiting professor at UCLA, MIT, and other prestigious universities, he cultivates next-generation design thinking. Mr. Li synergizes practice, scholarship, and public engagement through founding Lexian Cultural Media – an architectural knowledge ecosystem producing premium IP content – while serving as Column Curator for Time+Architecture magazine and Design Strategist at COSMOS Architecture. This trinity of professional identities establishes him as a new paradigm for transnational architectural leadership.
In his architectural practice, he has contributed to the creation of multiple iconic spatial narratives, including: Shenzhen OCT-Loft B10, Harbin Grand Theatre Beijing Chaoyang Park Complex, Bilibili Shanghai Headquarters, Xiaomi International Headquarters (Shenzhen), Huawei Shanghai Qingpu Industrial Park, Shenzhen Performing Arts Center, Shenzhen Science and Technology Museum, Wuxi Art Museum, Shenzhen Guangming Tian'an Cloud Valley, Baoshan Nanda Lingang Business District, ByteDance International Headquarters (Shenzhen), conceptual design for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (USA), Barael Hospital (Philippines), and Filinvest Chapel. In academia, he has made significant contributions through co-authoring Parametric Modeling, a textbook included in China’s 11th Five-Year Plan, and participating in Columbia University’s ChinaLab research project MEGA BLOCK. His works and articles have been published in prominent media outlets such as A+U, UED, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Time + Architecture, and First Real Estate.