ProfileDr Donia Zhang is an author and scholar of Architectural Humanities based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. She is the Director of the Neoland School of Chinese Culture and Chinese Culture Publishing, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism (JCAU), and Courtyard Architecture: along the Silk Roads, around the World. |
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Donia has authored four scholarly books with one forthcoming: Courtyard Houses of Beijing: Past, Present, and Future (2009/2010/2011), Schoolyard Gardening as Multinaturalism: Theory, Practice, and Product (2009), Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability: Theory, Practice, and Product (2013/2016), Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness: Architectural Multiculturalism in North America (2015/2017), and The Curriculum for Chinese Culture (forthcoming). Moreover, she contributed three chapters in two eBooks, Dialogues of Sustainable Urbanisation: Social Science Research and Transitions to Urban Contexts (2015), and New Approaches in Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism (2020). She has also published over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. Furthermore, she is a contributor of three entries and translated the Chinese lexicon for the Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World (2021, 2nd ed). Donia has seven years of work experience in the architectural industry in Toronto and Chicago, and eleven years of teaching experience in higher education in Ontario, Canada. The subjects she has taught include: History of Art and Architecture, Interior Design, and AutoCAD, among others. She is a former associate at the City Institute at York University, Canada. In 2014, she was a visiting scholar/occasional co-instructor at McMaster University, working with Professor Richard Harris in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences, during which time she completed a postdoctoral research project under the supervisions of SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Dr Ronald G. Knapp, and Professor/Dr Richard Harris. She then taught Chinese Urbanization under Socialist Market Economy to his undergraduate students at McMaster University. She is an editorial (advisory) board member of the Journal of Architectural Research and Development (JARD), Architecture and Design Review (ADR), and Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs (JCUA). Donia is a graduate of Oxford Brookes University (BArch, MA, PhD) in the UK and Brock University (MEd) in Canada. She has also obtained a Verified Certificate of Achievement in The Architectural Imagination from Harvard University | edX, and a Verified Certificate of Achievement in Interpreting Vernacular Architecture in Asia from the University of Hong Kong | edX. Keywords: Architectural humanities, Architecture and urbanism, Courtyard architecture, Chinese culture, Philosophy of architecture Keynote Speaker "Courtyard Housing around the World: A Cross-Cultural Analysis and Contemporary Relevance" (Best Paper Award) at the 3rd International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism (ICCAUA), Alanya HEP University, Turkey, 2020/5/6. Cambridge Open Engage: https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2020-rb9n2 Key Talks "Shanxi
Courtyard Dwellings and Hakka Walled Village," Panel discussion on
"Space and Culture: Hakka Dwellings," forum at Cheng Yu Tung
East Asian Library, University of Toronto, Canada, 2021/7/12. Book Review "Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness: Architectural Multiculturalism in North America" 2018/1/2 | By Ulduz Maschaykh News Media "Beijing's
Five Architectural Colors, and the Symbolism Behind Them" 2020/2/1
| By Jeremiah Jenne Academia Sites Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/doniazhang Social Media Sites Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doniazhang |
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