张继元为时境建筑事务所主持建筑师及合伙人，获得库柏联盟建筑学院建筑学士及哈佛大学建筑与城市设计专业硕士，纽约州注册建筑师。她的理论研究关注文化遗产的跨学科性质及其对建筑领域的影响。她最近进行中的研究探索关于丝绸之路的文化影响之下的中国农村的建筑和城市化。她在建筑实践中始终保持着对探索当代建筑语言边界的高度热情，试图从对场地的批判性分析中阐释建筑，从相对单一的现代建造模式的对立视角出发，将历史回归人文的整体，将建造重新引入建筑。落成项目多是与文化和社区相关的公共建筑，如曲靖五馆项目、北理工文体中心项目、广西老年活动中心、英良档案馆、五里春秋泛文化艺术中心和英良化石博物馆，获得了多项国际大奖及广泛的社会关注和认可，在2019年获得美国Best Of Year大奖，香港Perspective Trophy Awards 奖项，意大利 A’ 设计金奖，在2018年获得德国国家奖、Tucker Design Awards 天然石材设计大奖等。在实践领域之外，时境建筑应邀参加很多国内外的展览及讲座活动。她和卜骁骏目前任职清华大学建筑系客座教授。 >

Zhang Jiyuan is the key architect and a founding partner of Atelier Alter. She received her Bachelor of Architecture from The Cooper Union School of Architecture, her Master of Architecture in Urban Design form Harvard University and is a licensed architect in the State of New York. Her recent ongoing research explores architecture and urbanization in rural China under the cultural influence of the Silk Roads. In her architectural practice, she has always maintained a high degree of enthusiasm for exploring the boundaries of contemporary architectural language, trying to interpret architecture from the critical analysis of the site, starting from the opposing perspective of the relatively single modern construction model, returning history to the humanistic whole, and reintroducing construction into architecture. Most of the completed projects are public buildings related to culture and community, such as Qujing Five Museums Project, Beijing Polytechnic Cultural and Sports Center Project, Guangxi Elderly Activity Center, Yingliang Archives, Wuli Spring and Autumn Pan Culture and Arts Center and Yingliang Fossil Museum, which have won a number of international awards and widespread social attention and recognition, and won the Best Of Year Award in the United States, the Prospective Trophy Awards in Hong Kong, and the A” Design Gold Award in Italy in 2019. In 2018, she won the German National Award, tucker Design Awards Natural Stone Design Award, etc. In addition to the practical field, Atelier Alter has been invited to participate in many exhibitions and lectures at home and abroad. >