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# Jie Zhang

Original Houzz profile: [Jie Zhang](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/jie-zhang-pfvwus-pf~1888964711)

## Professional summary

- **Primary category:** Architects
- **Location:** Cambridge, MA
- **Serves:** National and International
- **Houzz rating:** 0.0 out of 5 (0 reviews)

## About

### Houzz Badges

- 100 Ideabook Saves

Jie Zhang is an architectural designer, researcher, and co-founder and partner of Opt, a design startup. She also contributes to Payette Associates in Boston, MA as an architect, and has previously worked at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Henning Larsen Architects, Atelier Jean Nouvel, NADAAA, and CNRPD. Besides designing buildings and cities, she has conceived Coca-Cola's activation strategy during its sponsorship of the 2008 Paralympics Games in Beijing, initiated Accra's first youth entrepreneurship awareness program, and mapped Chinese rural renewal with big data. 

Her independent design work has been awarded widely and exhibited in New Haven, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Medellin, Hong Kong, Shanghai etc., as well as through online platforms such as ArchDaily, FastCompany, Domus, SuperArchitects, DesignBoom, Core77, among others. 

Please get in touch for more information.

### Services Provided

- Architectural Design
- Planning
- Graphic Design
- Web Design

### Areas Served

- National and International

## Business Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Business Name | Jie Zhang |
| Address | Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States |
| Phone | (617) 319-0463 |
| Website | http://jie-zhang.com |
| Followers on Houzz | 30 |

## Contact

- **Houzz profile:** [Jie Zhang](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/jie-zhang-pfvwus-pf~1888964711)
- **Website:** http://jie-zhang.com
- **Phone:** (617) 319-0463

## Selected projects

- [Thirsty House](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/thirsty-house-pj-vj~1001476)
  - Location: Not specified
  - Photos: 7
  - Description: A Manifesto for a Water-Scarce Future The Thirsty House stands as a residual trace and a lasting memorial to the threatened resource, water, to evoke the awareness of the on-going water crisis and propose a frugal way of living in relationship to water. Natural water flow on the site is materialized and augmented in the folded, rippling single surface geometry, which defines chambers of different levels of privacy, soft boundary and directionality. The spatial experience would be a mix of intima…

[See all 1 project](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/jie-zhang-pfvwus-pf~1888964711)

## Ideabooks

- [WOW](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/46746824/list/wow) — 8 ideas
- [\#FOAStudent](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/46133056/list/foastudent) — 8 ideas

[See all 2 ideabooks](https://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/users/jie-zhang05)

## Community Q&A

**Q: What are the materials?** *(in Photo Questions)*

A: Thank you! It's a speculative academic project so not realized yet. I would be thrilled to have it built as it is quite pushing the edge of residential architecture. So please vote for me by saving the images to your ideabook and help spread the word :D

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*Source: Houzz professional profile. Reflects the profile as of 2026-09-04.*