Li Zhang is the Dean / Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture, Vice Principal THADI, Tsinghua University, China. He founds the award-winning design laboratory TeamMinus in THADI. In late 2021, he has been elected to the Hall of National Masters in Survey, Engineering and Design. 

Li Zhang is currently a Council Member [Region IV] of UIA, a standing board member of the Architectural Society of China, and the Editor-in-Chief of the leading Chinese magazine World Architecture.

Li Zhang’s is the founder and a main advocator of Urban Ergonomics, an inter-disciplinary domain focusing on human body and space, and the design of active urban spaces.

Li Zhang's design works cover a wide range of scales, from urban designs, buildings to micrososm interventions. He and TeamMinus has won over thirty national and international awards in the past decade. He is also the curator of China Pavilion in Venice Architecture Biennale 2020/2021