Lily Zhang

Lily Zhang and her partner Wataru Shinji design architecture, landscape and environment projects to expand the potential of design. They aim to discover a new idea of comfort and living space for not only humans but also a multitude of other life in our shared world.

Their recent projects and achievements include Earth Garden in Shenzhen Bay Park, Forest for All in Hong Kong, Life Forest at Art Basel Hong Kong, first place in the Shinkenchiku Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition in Tokyo, and Sand, Stone, Mountain at the Hong Kong/Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture. They teach architecture and landscape at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as the School of Architecture's inaugural Practitioners-in-Residence.

Lily was an invited Affirmations Planetary Cohort Respondent with the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She earned her Master of Architecture and a Graduate Certificate in Media and Modernity at Princeton University, where she received the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize for Design Excellence, the highest graduating honour, and her B.A. in Architecture with high honours from the University of California, Berkeley.