Qiuming Li joins DELINEATOR
“What attracts me to the practice of landscape architecture is the complexity and diversity. ”
We are excited to announce that Qiuming Li has joined DELINEATOR this year as a full-time landscape designer. She was a Summer and Fall design intern in 2022 and has been a key member on many of our projects including the Waco Brazos Gateway, Cottonwood Creeks, Sky City and the Houston Healing Garden. We are excited to continue collaborating and working together. Qiuming will be working in the Charlottesville DELINEATOR office while also traveling to Texas and the Dallas DELINEATOR office for site visits, client meetings, and community engagement.
Qiuming earned her Masters of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia in December 2022. She studied Landscape Architecture in her undergraduate studies and holds a bachelors degree in engineering in China. During the first year of the pandemic in 2020, Qiuming took a leave from UVA to work until she could participate in her academic studies in person again. As a part of her leave, she gained experience working at the SWA Group Shanghai and at Tom Leader Studio.
Qiuming is passionate about researching the natural, cultural, and social attributes of sites. She uses her research-based analysis and thinking to develop her design approach. Her interest in interacting with nature and the physical world helps her understand the importance of temporality in landscape phenomena. Qiuming is exceptionally talented in graphic communication, 3-D modeling, and site investigation. She is currently invested in further developing her abilities to express design thinking in a more artistic way.
Concept Diagram created by Qiuming Li in Summer 2022 while interning at DELINEATOR in Dallas, Texas for a project design focusing on COVID-19 Healing.
Qiuming was drawn to working at DELINEATOR because of the opportunity for experience in the variety of scales of projects and gaining more intimate knowledge of design methods, construction, business, and marketing that a smaller office had to offer at both domestic and international levels.
During her internship with DELINEATOR, Qiuming worked on over 10 projects at a variety of scales and design stages, including international urban design projects. She excels at conceptual sketching using 3-D modeling software as a process to explore topography, form, light, and texture.
Qiuming’s work at University of Virginia Fall 2022. The Axonometic drawing depits a superblock designed to experience urban food - turning Westbahnhof of Vienna into a productive and connective neighborhood.
In her fall semester, while working as an intern for DELINEATOR remotely, Qiuming traveled to Vienna for site investigation for her advanced research studio. Her design ultimately proposed to re-imagine a superblock of Vienna into an open space to experience growth, harvesting, and education of urban food. She created a guidebook and maps for residents and visitors to explore or help to build a future neighborhood. As an education tool their team proposed Species Profile Cards – guides for harvesting and cooking wild food in the urban conditions.
Qiuming enjoying lunch with Pico at The Katy Trail Ice House, a walk from the DELINEATOR studio in Dallas, Texas.
Outside of the office, Qiuming loves to make highly detailed and beautiful drawings of plants and is an exceptional baker that photographs her process artistically on her instagram.
From Left to Right; Cherry Mousse Tart: Section; Pinecone Drawing in Pencil; Rose + Osmanthus New York Cheesecake
“Qiuming’s creative approach and analytic thinking, at all stages of the design process, is an outstanding addition to our team.”
We are looking forward to supporting Qiuming in her growth as a young professional in the Dallas and Charlottesville communities and as a foundational leader in DELINEATOR as our team continues to grow. Qiuming is currently leading efforts to initiate a volunteer incentive for staff where they can trade a percentage of their time volunteering in their local community.