Zhang, David

David Zhang 张镜维 (b. 1997), is a New York City-based architectural designer. Raised in Minneapolis, MN, with ancestral roots in Changchun, China, he considers himself a child of the 44° N latitude line and a product of the Dongbei diaspora. He is an architectural designer and researcher at the Harlem-based practice AD—WO, working on public art and architecture projects at leading cultural institutions across the United States. Zhang holds a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University GSAPP, where he received the Evans Simpson ’88 M.Arch Prize for Excellence in Design in 2024. He was recently awarded the Beyer Blinder Belle John Belle Travel Fellowship, researching and advocating for watershed restoration projects led by Indigenous communities across the United States and Mexico. His practice advances cultures of cultivation, reciprocity, and spacemaking rooted in an animist ethic of accountability across the entangled constellations of human and non-human life.