Education
Architecture, Syracuse University
Architecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
Affiliate, Siebel Center for Design
Recent Publications
Zhao, W. (2025). Object Lesson: Shop + House: The Chinese Shophouse as a Transpacific Vernacular Form. Building and Landscapes, 32(2), 68-88. https://doi.org/10.1353/bdl.2025.a972453
Zhao, W. (2024). 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159032X.2023.2230833
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). 从聚族而居到中西合璧: 浙江方岩民居的发展变化. 建筑史学刊 [Journal of Architecture History], (2), 68-78.
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