Faculty

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Zihao Zhang

Associate Professor

Phone: 212-650-5567

Email: zzhang@ccny.cuny.edu

Office: SSA 3M04

https://zihaozhang.cc

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Educational Credentials :

  • Ph.D., School of Architecture, University of Virginia, 2021
  • M.L.A., School of Architecture, University of Virginia, 2016
  • B.Eng., Beijing Forestry University, 2013

Teaching Experience :

  • Associate Professor, City College of New York, CUNY, 2026-present
  • Assistant Professor, City College of New York, CUNY, 2021-2026
  • Lecturer, Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia, 2019-2021
  • Teaching Fellow, Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia, 2017-2019

Professional Experience :

  • Co-founder, OSE - Office of Speculative Ecologies, 2023-present
  • Member and co-chair of ASLA-NY Climate Action Committee, 2023-2026

Selected Publications and Recent Research :

  • Books:
    • Zhang, Zihao, and Shurui Zhang. Solarpunk Landscapes: Towards Radical Sustainability. New York: Routledge. Under contract.
    • Zhang, Zihao. Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment: Design Between Nature and Technology. New York: Routledge, 2024.
  • Book Chapters:
    • Macwillie, Elizabeth, Shawn Rickenbacker, and Zihao Zhang. "Strengthening Local Ecologies of Care Through Art and Activism in Harlem, NYC." In Activism in Design Education: Health, Equity, and Climate Action, ed. Claire Latane and Jean Yang, 95–108. New York: Routledge, 2027.
    • Zhang, Zihao, and Shurui Zhang. "Escaping Western Gaze: Chinese Diasporic Urbanism in Flushing." In Becoming Chinatown: An Anthology of Interiors, ed. Leyuan Li and Tairan An. Berlin: Jovis, 2027. Forthcoming.
    • Zhang, Zihao, and Shurui Zhang. "Before the After: Representing Climate Actions in the Age of AI." In Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action, ed. Nadia Amoroso. New York: Routledge, 2024.
    • Cantrell, Bradley, Zihao Zhang, and Xun Liu. "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Landscape Architecture." In The Routledge Companion to Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, 232–47. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2021.
  • Journal Articles:
    • Fernberg, Phillip, and Zihao Zhang. "Problematizing AI Omnipresence in Landscape Architecture." Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 9 (2024): 746–55.
    • Zhang, Zihao, et al. "Robots in the Garden: Artificial Intelligence and Adaptive Landscapes." Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 8 (2023): 264–72.
    • Zhang, Zihao. "Post-Digital Landscape and Post-Digital Culture." Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 7 (2022): 26–35.
    • Zhang, Zihao, and Bradley Cantrell. "Cultivated Wildness: Towards Technodiversity and Wildness in Machines." Landscape Architecture Frontiers 9, no. 1 (2021): 52–65.
    • Cantrell, Bradley, and Zihao Zhang. "A Third Intelligence." Landscape Architecture Frontiers 6, no. 2 (2018): 42–51.
  • Essays and Reviews:
    • Zhang, Zihao. "AI in Landscape Architecture: Beyond the Myth of AI–Human Rivalry." Landezine, January 6, 2025.
    • Zhang, Shurui, and Zihao Zhang. "Resilient Schist: Crafting Harlem's Corridor of Art, Culture, and Ecology." New York Amsterdam News, January 30, 2025.
    • Zhang, Zihao. Review of The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Journal of Landscape Architecture 2024, no. 2: 88–89.

Professional Memberships :

  • ASLA Member, New York Chapter
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