Education
Architecture, Syracuse University
Architecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
Assistant Professor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Recent Publications
Zhao, W. (2024). Systems of settings and activities: A framework to study vernacular settlements and cultural landscapes in China. In Theorizing Built form and Culture: the Legacy of Amos Rapoport (pp. 136-146). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003372110-12
Zhao, W. (2023). From Sacred Wu-Yue to “The Center of Heaven and Earth”–Constructing an Imperial Landscape and a Global Heritage in China. Heritage and Society, 17(1), 1-20. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159032X.2023.2230833
Zhao, W. (2022). Home Beyond the House: Transformation of Life, Place, and Tradition in Rural China. (Explorations in Housing Studies). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003294948
Zhao, W. (2015). Beyond the Invariable Style: The Development of Residential Architecture in Yanxia Village, China. Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, 26(2), 41-57. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24347525
Zhao, W. (2015). 中国式‘建造’: 以国外文化遗产研究理论来审视国内近几年开展的文化遗产保护项目. 南方建筑, 2015(1), 24-29.