張東先生和唐子穎女士于2009年共同創(chuàng)立張?zhí)凭坝^事務(wù)所。透過近年來包括景觀規(guī)劃、場地設(shè)計(jì)、藝術(shù)裝置乃至生態(tài)工法等方面創(chuàng)新且務(wù)實(shí)的實(shí)踐，使張?zhí)凭坝^在業(yè)界享有較高聲譽(yù)。

不可否認(rèn)，就自然與藝術(shù)作為主導(dǎo)要素的景觀而言，其對人們生活的幸福感有著直接或潛在影響。正由于此，張?zhí)凭坝^著力于整合和優(yōu)化源于自然的設(shè)計(jì)與人居環(huán)境間的關(guān)系。透過“參與性生態(tài)”的設(shè)計(jì)理念，力圖倡導(dǎo)環(huán)境教育、提升場地活力，并加強(qiáng)社會連接和保持場地的可持續(xù)性。  

創(chuàng)始人張東先生和唐子穎女士有著豐富的在北美和中國學(xué)習(xí)及工作經(jīng)歷，為張?zhí)凭坝^奠定了理解東西方不同思維敏銳性的基礎(chǔ)，也因此在工作中更加強(qiáng)調(diào)多元化及多學(xué)科間的緊密合作。在中國設(shè)計(jì)領(lǐng)域快速發(fā)展的當(dāng)下，不斷涌現(xiàn)出許多大型的設(shè)計(jì)機(jī)構(gòu)。然而，張?zhí)凭坝^始終刻意保持一種相對較小的規(guī)模，重視設(shè)計(jì)質(zhì)量，以確保首席設(shè)計(jì)師有足夠的時(shí)間和精力投入到每個(gè)項(xiàng)目當(dāng)中。透過事務(wù)所的集體智慧、創(chuàng)新文化、及多元化團(tuán)隊(duì)成員的通力合作并有效執(zhí)行，提升客戶項(xiàng)目品質(zhì)并改善社會。 

 張?zhí)凭坝^認(rèn)為，任何好的設(shè)計(jì)都離不開大膽的構(gòu)想和深入的研究。因此，張?zhí)凭坝^創(chuàng)立了藝術(shù)工作室（Art Workshop）以及自然工作室（Biophilic Lab）。藝術(shù)工作室透過對創(chuàng)新材料及構(gòu)造方法的研究，使張?zhí)凭坝^的設(shè)計(jì)能力得到顯著提升，同時(shí)透過全尺寸模型的制作、測試和生產(chǎn)，確保交付產(chǎn)品質(zhì)量；自然工作室則致力于推進(jìn)張?zhí)凭坝^“參與性生態(tài)”的景觀實(shí)踐工作，在場地設(shè)計(jì)中積極應(yīng)對當(dāng)下來自水環(huán)境、能源、棲息地及物種多樣性等議題日益嚴(yán)峻的挑戰(zhàn)，以提升項(xiàng)目的科學(xué)性和可持續(xù)性。根據(jù)其不同特質(zhì)，藝術(shù)工作室和自然工作室將在不同程度上支撐景觀項(xiàng)目全生命周期下品質(zhì)的創(chuàng)新性及持續(xù)性。

Z+T Studio was founded by Dong Zhang and Ziying Tang in Shanghai in 2009.  Since then the uniquely diverse work the firm completed has ranged from city furniture, ASLA award-winning research center to master planning. Z+T Studio’s portfolio has gained solid and critical reputation for the firm for its ingenious, yet original landscape design answers to the projects and sites.  

Considering landscape architecture’s social and psychological impact to people’s sense of well-being, Z+T Studio is interested in making a place where the fundamental natural landscape elements and principles could integrate and optimize the increasingly urbanized environment for the inhabitants. By inviting and encouraging people’s participation and exchange among themselves and nature, the placeis cultivated and enriched by the site’s cultural associations. Z+TStudio approaches to the project by seeking the understanding of the particulars of each site, program of each project and the context. As design always encompasses these understandings with the designers’ evolving sensitivities to nature, life and society, the landscape connects people to the physical and social environment.

Zhang and Tang’s extensive academic and practicing experience both in the US and China laid the unique foundation for the firm to embrace the perspectives and sensitivities of West and East. Guided by the two founding principals, the firm emphasizes focused, intimate and multi-disciplinary collaboration. Countering the over growing and quantity dominating trend in China’s design field, Z+T Studio has resisted the commercialization of the practice and kept moderate size of atelier. The commitment is enabled by its atelier design intelligence, culture and the team members including landscape architects, architects, urban planners, artists, horticultural specialists and ecologists. 

Every design starts with research and daring ideas. In order to better develop the ideas, Z+T Studio has founded and integrated an Art Workshop and a Biophilic Lab. The workshop has significantly expanded the design capacity utilizing innovative materials and tectonics. The workshop’s capacity in making full-scale mockups, testing and production has guaranteed the quality and consistency of the final deliverables. The Biophilic Lab offers research and analysis in soil, water, vegetation and ecology of the project site and the proposed design.  It is essential to ensure the projects beyond superficial style or merely form oriented.  The workshop and lab are both pivot supports to the implementation of the design and maintenance of the project after the completion.