· Personal Profile
Dr. QI Li was born in Chengdu, Sichuan and originally from Weihai, Shandong. He graduated from Southwest Jiaotong University (major in Architecture, B.Arch) and Southeast University (major in Architectural Design and its Theory, M.Arch & PhD in Engineering). He is a winner of Si-Shi-Yang-Hua Gold Medal in Southwest Jiaotong University and an academic visitor of Sheffield University. He has been participating in the teaching on courses of architectural design for grade 2-4, as well as the drafting, planning, organization and teaching of undergraduate graduation design (Architecture Major) since he joined his alma mater. He has been deeply engaged in the research on post-war avant-garde urban architecture represented by megastructure ever since his postgraduate period. In addition, he has also focused on diagram issues from the perspective of architectural autonomy. Recently, he has gradually redirected his research onto the design of healthy living environment based on game theory and behavior orientation. Now he is in charge of one research project of Modern Design and Culture in the Key Research Base of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Sichuan Province (in progress), and one school level teaching reform project of Southwest Jiaotong University (in progress). He has presided over one project funded by China Scholarship Council (completed), participated in one project of the National Publishing Fund (completed) and one project of the German Federal Cultural Foundation (completed). In addition, he has published 6 academic papers as the first author besides 1 monograph (participated in translation, completed) and parcitepated in 2 translated works (completed) in ooperation. He has completed more than 10 public architectural design proposals and urban design schemes as the principal architect, with more than 30 such projects as the chief creator. He has participated in international architectural design competitions and won the highest prize for one time. He has guided students to participate in various national or international architecture-related competitions for many times with with four prizes.