Education
Architecture, Syracuse University
Architecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
Affiliate, Siebel Center for Design
Assistant Professor, Center for Global Studies
Assistant Professor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
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