is interested in re-creating the new
“trans-scale” architecture and new social
space constantly between virtual and actual
reality within the world of things and
thoughts towards the future.
再-造 建筑
的兴趣是在世界万物万思的
实在与潜在之间，
不断地
再创造新的
“跨尺度”建筑和“新社会”空间以
走向未来。
Zai – Zao Architecture
is founded and directed by Zhao Deli, who has
been teaching at China Academy of Art School of
Architecture and Art since 2012.
再-造 建筑
由赵德利创建并担任主持建筑设计师，他
自从2012年起就在中国美术学院建筑艺术
学院教学建筑设计和理论课程。
Zhao Deli, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at the School of Architecture, China Academy of Art. He is the founding principal of Zai-Zao Architecture, and has served as Critic in the Department of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design (2017), Co-Instructor for the Urban Exchange Unit in Introduction to Design Studies at Parsons School of Design(2019), and invited speaker in the ULEC University Lecture Series at Parsons(2021, 2022). He was also a faculty member in the International Master of Fine Arts (IMFA) program at the China Academy of Art, and served as Guest Editor of the Architecture Volume of New Arts journal (2013–2020). His teaching, practice, and theoretical works revolve around discovering and re-creating “trans-scalar architecture” and “new social spaces” through a dialectic between the actual and the virtual.
His works has been published in New Arts, Time + Architecture, and the EU’s the Knowledge Alliance for Advanced Urbanism, International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics. He has given lectures about his works at institutions such as Technische Universität Berlin, Parsons School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, National Technical University of Athens, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Japan Institute of Architects, Tokyo Designers Week, Responsive Cities Forum in Barcelona, the World Chinese Architects Association, and the AmorePacific Foundation in Seoul.
His teaching project, Porosity: Permeable Interfaces of Urban Material Modes, received the Third Prize in the 9th Zhejiang Provincial Young Faculty Teaching Competition and the First Prize in the Young Faculty Teaching Competition of the China Academy of Art. His theoretical course, Spatial Thought and Tools, was awarded the Excellent Teaching Plan Award for Undergraduate Core Courses at the China Academy of Art. His projects have received several honors, including the German Design Award, A’ Design Award in Italy, and Shortlist for the UK Blueprint Award. He has also won the Second Prize in the UIA-CBC International Construction Competition and the Gold Award at the World Youth Design Festival during Guangzhou Design Week. He received Second Prize – Z3 Spatial Art Competition, China Australia Urban Forum, Shanghai, 2016.
