Ruxuan Zheng currently works at ARCHIMAERA Architecture. She explores how the built environment can respond to long-term environmental shifts, spatial inequality, and emerging patterns of urban life through systems-based and phase-oriented design approaches.

Ruxuan holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University and a Master of Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia GSAPP. She has lived, studied, and worked across New York, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, contributing to large-scale residential and infrastructural projects in both professional and academic settings. This cross-cultural experience informs her sensitivity to site, context, and temporal change.

Her design methodology emphasizes frameworks over fixed forms—using phased development, ecological integration, and infrastructural thinking to shape adaptable spatial systems. She is particularly drawn to edge conditions, flood-prone territories, and sites of environmental tension where architecture can act as mediator rather than object.

Her work has been recognized by platforms such as the Architecture MasterPrize and International Design Awards (IDA), and continues to evolve through independent research and exploration.