Adjunct

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Guanghui Ding

Adjunct Associate Professor

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Guanghui-Ding-3

Educational Credentials :

  • PhD in Architecture, The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, 2013;
  • Postgraduate Program, South China University of Technology, 2009;
  • Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, 2008

Teaching Experience :

  • Adjunct Associate Professor, City College of New York, CUNY, 2025
  • Associate Professor, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2019-2022;
  • Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2015-2018;
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, City University of Hong Kong, 2014-2015

Professional Experience :

  • Freelance Architectural Designer, Beijing Zhongtian Jianzhong Engineering Design, 2015-2025

Selected Publications and Recent Research :

  • BOOKS:
  • 1. Jiawen Han, Xianwen Kuang and Guanghui Ding, Chinese Cities as Pedagogy: Interdisciplinary Teaching Practice (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).
  • 2. Charlie Xue and Guanghui Ding, A History of Design Institutes in China: From Mao to Market (London and New York: Routledge, 2018, reprinted in paperback 2020).
  • Revised and Expanded Chinese Edition：Ding Guanghui, Xue Qiuli, Zhongguo shejiyuan: jiazhi yu tiaozhan. Beijing: China Architecture and Building Press, 2022.
  • 扩展中文版：丁光辉，薛求理，《中国设计院：价值与挑战》，北京：中国建筑工业出版社, 2022.
  • 3. Guanghui Ding, Constructing a Place of Critical Architecture in China: Intermediate Criticality in the Journal Time + Architecture (Farnham, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015/London and New York: Routledge, 2016, reprinted in paperback 2018).
  • Chinese Edition：Ding Guanghui, Jianzhu piping de yiduo langhua: shiyanxing jainzhu. Beijing: China Architecture and Building Press, 2018
  • 中文版：丁光辉，《建筑批评的一朵浪花：实验性建筑》，北京：中国建筑工业出版社, 2018.
  • BOOK EDITED:
  • 1. Charlie Xue, and Guanghui Ding, eds. Exporting Chinese Architecture: History, Issue and “One Belt and One Road” (Singapore: Springer, 2022).
  • REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS:
  • 1. Guanghui Ding, “Spatial Emancipation: Guangzhou Opera House,” in Charlie Xue and Cong Sun (eds.) Grand Theater Urbanism (Beijing: China Architecture and Building Press, 2024), 71-82. (In Chinese)
  • 2. Charlie Q.L. Xue and Guanghui Ding, “Building Socialist Cosmopolitanism: China's Stadium Diplomacy in Africa, 1970s-80s,” in Jonathan Sullivan, Tobias Ross and Angela Lewis (eds.), Global China and the Global Game in Africa: China-Africa Engagement through the Lens of Football (New York: Peter Lang, 2024): 187-210.
  • 3. Guanghui Ding and Charlie Q.L. Xue, “Traveling Ideas: Appropriation and Identity in the China-Sri Lanka Architecture Exchanges,” in Charlie Q.L. Xue and Guanghui Ding (eds.), Exporting Chinese Architecture: History, Issue and “One Belt and One Road” (Singapore: Springer, 2022), 83-113.
  • 4. Charlie Q.L. Xue and Guanghui Ding, “Introduction,” in Charlie Q.L. Xue and Guanghui Ding (eds.), Exporting Chinese Architecture: History, Issue and “One Belt and One Road” (Singapore: Springer, 2022), 3-24.
  • 5. Chen Yingting, Charlie Q.L. Xue, Guanghui Ding and Yizhuo Gao, “Schooling for Future: Aided Education Buildings,” in Charlie Q.L. Xue and Guanghui Ding (eds.), Exporting Chinese Architecture: History, Issue and “One Belt and One Road” (Singapore: Springer, 2022), 155-185.
  • 6. Charlie Q.L. Xue and Guanghui Ding, “From Mao to Market: The Evolution of China’s State-owned Design Institutes,” in Jianfei Zhu, Chen Wei and Li Hua (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Architecture (London and New York: Routledge, 2022), 536-550.
  • 7. Charlie Q. L. Xue, Guanghui Ding and Yingbo Xiao, “Chinese Design Institutes Run by the Universities: Using Tongji University as an Example,” In Subin Xu, Nobuo AokiBébio, Vieira Amaro (eds.) East Asian Architecture in Globalization: Values, Inheritance and Dissemination (Singapore: Springer, 2021): 374-392. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75937-7_29
  • 8. Guanghui Ding, “Guangzhou Opera House: Building a Gated Public Space,” in Charlie Xue (ed.) Grand Theater Urbanism: Chinese Cities in the Twenty First Century (Singapore: Springer, 2019), 55-74. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7868-3_3
  • 9. Wenjun Zhi and Guanghui Ding, “Cultivating a Critical Culture: The Interplay of Time + Architecture and Contemporary Chinese Architecture,” in Nasrine Seraji, Sony Devabhaktuni, Xiaoxuan Lu, (eds.) From Crisis to Crisis: Debates on Why Architecture Criticism Matters Today (Barcelona: Actar Publishers, 2018), 123-137.
  • 10. Guanghui Ding and Min Jia, “The Space of Awakening: Embodied Experience in Guangzhou’s Archaeological Museums,” in Lin Li, Charlie Xue (eds.) Chinese Urbanism in the 21st Century (Beijing: China Architecture and Building Press, 2017), 78-91. (In Chinese)
  • REFEREED JOURNALS:
  • 1 Guanghui Ding, “Design Technocracy and New School Architecture in Shenzhen, China,” PLATFORM, February 3, 2025.
  • 2 Guanghui Ding, “Constructing Geographical and Architectural Imaginations: The China-Aided Assembly Buildings in Africa, 1960s-1970s” Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism 2023 5(1): 200. https://accscience.com/journal/JCAU/5/1/10.36922/jcau.200
  • 3 Guanghui Ding and Charlie Q.L. Xue, “Displaying Socialist Cosmopolitanism: China’s Architectural Aid in the Global South,” Architectural Theory Review 26(3), 2022, 547–577. https://doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2023.2194662
  • 4 Guanghui Ding, “Repairing Chinese Cities: Spatial Justice in Urban Regeneration,” Inflection: Journal of the Melbourne School of Design, 9, 2022, 84-103.
  • 5 Guanghui Ding, “Embodied ‘Emancipation’: Architects, Technocrats and the Shaping of the Canton Fair in 1970s China,” The Journal of Architecture, 26 (7), 2021, 969-999. DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2021.1976248.
  • 6 Guanghui Ding, “Constructing a Constellation of Architecture Criticism in 1980s China: Zeng Zhaofen and a Tale of Two Journals,” Histories of Post-War Architecture, 7, 2020, 124–145. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-0075/11346
  • 7 Guanghui Ding, “The Return of Repressed Subjectivity: Feng Jizhong and Wang Shu,” Architecture and Culture: Journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, Volume 8, Issue 3+4, 2020, 433-451. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2020.1794130
  • 8 Guanghui Ding and Charlie Q.L. Xue, “Mediating Production, Teaching, and Research: The Role of University-run Design Institutes in Chinese Architectural Practice,” Architectural Research Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 1, March 2019, 73-86. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1359135519000071
  • 9 Guanghui Ding and Charlie Q.L. Xue, “China’s Design Institute as a Hybrid Organization: Between Bureaucracy and Charisma,” Domus, no. 4, 2019, 414-423.
  • 10 Charlie Q.L. Xue, Guanghui Ding, Wei Chang and Wan Yan, “Architecture of “Stadium Diplomacy”: China-aid Sport Buildings in Africa,” Habitat International, Volume 90, August 2019, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2019.05.004
  • 11 Wei Chang, Charlie Q.L. Xue, and Guanghui Ding, “Architecture of Diplomacy: Chinese Construction Aid in Asia, 1950–1976,” ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 4(1), 2019, p.3. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ajar.147
  • 12 Guanghui Ding and Charlie Q.L. Xue, “China’s Architectural Aid: Exporting a Transformational Modernism,” Habitat International, 47, 2015, 136-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.01.019
  • 13 Guanghui Ding, “Experimental Architecture in China,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 73, no. 1, 2014, 28-37. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2014.73.1.28
  • 14 Guanghui Ding, Jonathan Hale and Steve Parnell, “Constructing a Place for Critical Practice in China: The History and Outlook of the Journal Time + Architecture,” Architectural Research Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 3/4, 2013, 237-252. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1359135514000062

Professional Memberships :

  • Society of Architectural Historians
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