Bz Zhang is an architect, visual artist, organizer, and educator based in Los Angeles and a licensed architect in California. They earned a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Visual Arts from Brown University. They are a founding member of SPACE INDUSTRIES, a spatial design collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, and an organizer for the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter University.
Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust, Los Angeles, CA, US, Project Manager
University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, US, Citizen Architect Fellow
USC School of Architecture
University of Michigan, Lecturer
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Metabolic Studio, Los Angeles, CA, US, Designer
Architectural work for artist Lauren Bon on infrastructural artwork, Bending the River Back Into the City, in Los Angeles, California. The project aims to utilize Los Angeles’ first private water right to deliver 106-acre feet of water annually from the Los Angeles River to over 50 acres of land in the historic core of downtown Los Angeles. The project's model can be replicated to regenerate the 51-mile Los Angeles River, reconnect it to its floodplain, and form a citizens’ utility.
SPACE INDUSTRIES, San Francisco, CA, US, Co-founder
SPACE INDUSTRIES is a spatial design collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. Currently, they are participating artists in Gray Area Foundation’s 2019—2020 Experiential Space Research Lab, and recently, they were published in Ground Up, a journal of landscape architecture and environmental planning.
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, US, Artist
Participating artist for the Gray Area Foundation's 2019-2020 Experiential Space Research Lab in San Francisco, California.
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, US, Instructor
Instructor
College of Environmental Design Summer Institute: [IN]ARCH
Graduate Student Instructor
Introduction to Construction (ARCH160), Professors Dana Buntrock, David Jaehning
Energy and Environment (ARCH140), Professors Gail Brager, Stefano Schiavon
Introduction to Culture and Natural Resource Management (ESPM50), Professor Kurt Spreyer
Researcher, Arcus Endowment of the College of Environmental Design, Professor Greig Crysler
Loubier Design, Philadelphia, PA, US, Designer / Project Manager
